Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Waxwing, artist - Alasdair Roberts. Album song The Amber Gatherers, in the genre Иностранная авторская песняDate of issue: 22.01.2007
Record label: Drag City
Song language: English
Waxwing |
| Waxwing, waxwing, what do you bring |
| From the frozen North? |
| Waxwing, waxwing, we’ve been waiting on you |
| I bring the amber that I have gathered |
| On the northern seashore |
| For the hatchlings I have fathered for thee |
| I’ve been underground where wyverns are bound |
| And where gold and jewels are found |
| These I hoarded under my barry-brown wing |
| We have no need, no need of your amber |
| Likewise your gold and your jewels-- |
| There is no true beauty in things of no use |
| Waxwing, waxwing, my only asking: |
| Tether the braces so cruel |
| Keep my young well-feathered and their bellies full |
| And waxwing, waxwing, what will you do |
| When your days of fathering are through |
| When at last grim Death comes a’knocking on you? |
| I can do nothing but fly in the wake of my kin |
| I will soar onward undaunted and die on the wing |
| I’ll die in the canyon of echoes; |
| you’ll still hear me sing |
| And still I will give to you all the things I bring |