You look so pretty lying there
with dreamland's smile upon your face
Your golden curls in disarray upon your
starched white pillow case
The soft blue satin covers pulled up
tight around your lovely throat
It almost makes me want to go des
troy the message on the note
The note I left upon the perfumed
I hate to think about you waking up
It hurts me so to get up in
the middle of the night and go
But thinking back I do remember
faintly that I told you so
I told you I was like a bird,
a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and
build a nest in early spring
When sum mer winds have had their day,
and win ter clouds are fly ing high
I spread my wings and fly
I only know that I must go and
nothing here must hold me back
I like the love you gave me,
and the tender way you scratched my back
I like your warm sweet kisses,
and the way you cook your ham and eggs
I like the way the suntan lotion
softened up your lovely legs
I like the static noise I heard when you
would sit and brush your hair
The way you gave yourself to me
and never asked to go nowhere
But most of all I like the way you always
The way you took this chance for love
and took me just for what I am
I told you I was like a bird,
a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and
build a nest in early spring
When sum mer winds have had their day,
and winter clouds are flying high
I spread my wings and fly
as I leave I fight the yearning in my blood
To wake you up and love you just
once more before I go for good
But somehow, I am fighting back my
passion for I cannot stay
And someday you'll look back and know
the be st it ended up this way
I told you I was like a bird,
a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and
build a nest in early spring
When summer winds have had their day,
and winter clouds are flying high
Instinctively, I spread my wings and fly
