Broken Wing - David Knopfler

Years of lying to hide your scars

Working night shift through a thousand sunless bars

Another love song, another prayer in vain

Another loved one who flew too near your flame

Nobody could deny you anything but a question must remain

Can you fly with broken wings?

(Mend these broken wings, mend these broken wings)

You knew leaving was the best way in the end

To undeceive me now and steel my heart again

As I still love you and a love like this don’t change

And though there’s silence now we both still feel the same

Just the questions that remain

Who can fly with broken wings?

Perhaps we never tried, perhaps you thought you let me down

Baby once upon a time…

I’d believe each empty promise and every pretty line

Now how do we begin?

Where do we begin to mend those broken wings?

(Mend these broken wings, mend these broken wings)

(Mend these broken wings, mend these broken wings)

Here’s René's painting, streetlamp and stars

Two lovers kissing in the back seat of the car

A midnight moon shining bright, you must remember this

Two tortured lovers seek a one last night of bliss

Back where we started, in the echoes of release

And a gift that only love can bring

To mend these broken wings

(Mend these broken wings)

Broken wings

(Mend these broken wings)

(Mend these)

Broken wings