Shrike

Shrike- Hozier (Wasteland, Baby!)
 

You couldn't utter your love when it counted
but you're singing like a bird 'bout it now
And you wouldn't even whisper

When I needed it shouted
but you're singing like a bird 'bout it now

Your words hung above
But never did form
Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn
Won't remember you, love, if you're reborn
As the shrike to my sharp
or glorious thorn

You had no idea on what ground we were founded
All of that goodness is going with me now
When when you met me,

You said your virtues uncounted
All of that goodness is buried with our love

Dragged along
Following my form
Hung like the pelt

Of some prey I had torn

Won't remember you, love, if you're reborn
As the shrike to my sharp
or glorious thorn

You fled to the city with so much discounted
Will you fly like a bird to me now
Back to the hedgerows where bodies are mounted
wings too wrecked to fly to me now