Andrew Calhoun

Fluttering Wings 

©1998 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Shadow of a Wing.

Still these fluttering wings 
Fold them in by me 
Stop these flutterings 
Quietly 

Still and stern I walk a road 
Where judge and jury beg to live 
You are there to take the blame 
Where I am hardest to forgive 

Still these fluttering wings 
Fold them in by me 
Stop these flutterings 
Quietly 

All we did and all we had 
Everywhere the meaning was 
Left half-hearted on the grass 
In spite of, or just because 

Still these fluttering wings 
Fold them in by me 
Stop these flutterings 
Quietly 

Do not bring the cup to me 
Of all you think, and all I do 
Brace and be the cup to me 
Where we can be the water too 

Still these fluttering wings 
Fold them in by me 
Stop these flutterings 
Quietly 

Lay aside your wily ways 
For truth holds all of mystery 
And Love, within this failing light 
Show my lover whole to me 

And lift our promise from disgrace 
Wrap it in a stronger will 
Bind it in a fond embrace 
Where all is change, I hold you still 

Still these fluttering wings 
Fold them in by me 
Stop these flutterings 
Quietly