The Mallard Lyrics & Tabs by Harvey Andrews
The Mallard
guitar chords lyrics
Mallard, The
I still remember how we played together now,
You in the water and me on the Land.
I´d call and you´d follow me, People would smile at us,
Taking their Pictures of you in my Hand.
There in the City a Park we could stay in
A Pool you could swim and an Island for home.
Young ones each summer you raised to the water.
Then stayed for the cold as they left you alone.
You were my beauty, my peace and my pleasure,
A friend I could come to as both of us aged.
Wild and not knowing that freedom´s a treasure,
The City´s a prison but you were uncaged.
So how could they leave you to live with your freedom,
To share time and silence with one quiet boy.
The City´s a prison but you were uncaged.
So how could they leave you to live with your freedom,
To share time and silence with one quiet boy.
For all things of beauty they could not believe in,
They could not conceive so they had to destroy.
I saw them laughing and running together,
Clutching the red stones and chanting my name.
Jeering and joking they left me for ever
To search for the meaning to carry the shame.
For I found you broken, battered and bleeding,
Someone found me wandering late in the night.
And all I could ask him was how could it happen
And why should it happen and who I could fight?
My father came calling me, angry and frightened
And as I cried constantly he was afraid
Quietly telling me that I was growing
To live in the world as the world had been made.
But could I believe in the love he had promised,
The dream he had painted in which I could live.
If somebody smashes the love that you offer
There´s less that you show and there´s less you can give.
And I still remember how we played together now,
You in the water and me on the land.
But it´s been so hard not to carry the hatred
And try though I have, I still can´t understand.
