I took a lover
In the summer, in the summer
Ooh, sweet sparrow song
Come winter, come winter
I lost my lover
Just like the birds,
She’d up and gone
But when she left
She left with a promise
Ooh, she would not be long
And I’d know she was coming
I’d only to listen
Ooh, for sparrow song
They say that what goes up
Usually comes back down
Sometimes the silence just rings out
Rings out, rings out, rings out
Elsewhere in the county
A council was voting
Ooh, sweet sparrow song
The trees had an illness
They wanted a quickfix
A chemical treatment
To right their wrongs
Well it sure killed the virus
But nobody noticed
Ooh, ‘til spring had sprung
That the birds were all dying
The earth had been poisoned
And I was still listening
For sparrow song
They say that what goes up
Usually comes back down
Sometimes the silence just rings out
Rings out, rings out, rings out