By Michelle De Witt   Mick/@centuryinter.net
Date: 15 May 1997

If only you knew

              I am just a bird in a cage waiting to flee
              each day you come to love and hold
              Each time you fear I might runaway
              So you take a feather, so I might stay
              If only you knew, if you would let me fly
              I would stay until the end of time

              I pick up my feathers and pray to God
              that he will show me how to mend them back on
              The more you take my feathers from me
              The more I want to run and flee
              Its not you I really want to flee
              Its the pain of feathers being ripped
              off the flesh of me
              If only you knew, if you would let me fly
              I would stay until the end of time

              Someday I hope you will see
              How little by little you are destroying me
              If this continues and you take all my feathers from me
              We shall both surely die in a sensless sea
              If only you knew, if you would let me fly
              I would stay until the end of time

              Now I see the day has come
              and neither of us have won
              It is time for me to pick up my feathers and fly
              The pain and sorrow is great, but I will not cry
              If only you knew, If you would have let me fly
              I would have stayed until the end of time