Falcondale - ILYA

I have wings to soar to fly a bird I long to be

Now the earth is cracked and dry the air will carry me

And if I wear my feathered crown no human I will try

No falling I will spread my wings and fly

And what will swim inside my blood like Mississippi brine

And where my footprints drag thru mud my only earthly sign

And now I hear from rocky cliff the pure white seabirds cry

And like them I will spread my wings and fly

Above a black and roaring sea so effortless I glide

And if the winter come to me in feathered nest I hide

Into a day of turquoise-gold I blaze into the sky

In rolling air I spread my wings and fly

And all the humans far below how stale and tired they seem

Earthbound they can never know the glory I have seen

And find no mercy in my face no gentle loving sigh

For bird-like I will spread my wings and fly, and fly and fly