[j__anese bonustrack]

When I was a little child,
I once found a bird lying on the ground.
It would not ever fly again.
I held the bird up in my hands,
I shed my tears over the lovely song that
not longer could be heard.

Never learn to fly.
Never learn to fly.

With dirty hands I dug a hole
and gently laid the bird to rest in soil:
a wound in the tear stained mud.
My tears wore rain
as I revealed the secrets of a tree.
A cross of bark to speak
through wooden grains:

'Never learn to fly.'
'Never learn to fly.'

I sang a song which I remembered
my grandma used to sing for me,
when I was sick and laid in bed.
Then I cursed that day
for showing me my own mortality
for then I knew that all that lives turns cold.
Cold and dead.
And now time has passed by beneath my wings.

[Solo Kristoffer Gildenlöw]

That was then I'm older now,
but still I can't forget that rainy day.
I raged against the ending times,
though some day soon my son will maybe
find the tree I cleansed of skin.
No chain-sling will ever climb its rotten limbs.
And when the time has come for me to die,
I want to lie beside that bird.

Never learn to fly.
Never learn to fly.
Never learn to fly.

When I was a little child,
I once found myself dying on the ground
and now I'll never ...fly...

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