God's Mockingbird - David Knopfler

God’s mockingbird — don’t sing no more

Where she had wings of gossamer now she has scars

Now she has claws… all feathers tattered and torn

With this metamorphosis complete

God’s mockingbird she hits the street

Say have you seen — Say have you heard

Say have you seen — God’s mockingbird?

Like bindweed — they entangle her

She’s in too deep — she’s in too far

You owed me nothing when we met

It’s less than nothing now

You’ve a new duet to grease in for your set

Foolio had Juliet

Say haven’t you seen — haven’t you heard

Haven’t you seen God’s mockingbird

While money rich morticians, honey o’er the seaméd stye

I dreamed I heard God’s mockingbird from her secret garden fly

She was startled and stuttering, naked and torn

Shell shocked, shuddering, shaken and worn

Battered and broken, borne back by the storm

To a black and loveless sky

Say haven’t you seen — haven’t you heard

Haven’t you seen God’s mockingbird

And as he lays you down to sleep

Who’ll pray each night for your soul to keep?

With your sacred cow and crushed crimson heart

Promises are cheap

You can shut me down — You can freeze me out

Baby I’m not the clown — You should worry about

Where this drowned phoenician sailor rocks

To the rhythms of his broken oars

It ain’t over 'til the last siren calls

As the puss sun goes down on his hollow eyed whores

Who’s soft sighs solicit from desolate shores

Your dead poet’s gone but you’d still take his calls

Your last sea dog sailed but you’re still taking bets

Was it a something or a someone found in the net?

Ah nobody’s saying… but Ophelia knows

As up he rose… and donn’d his clothes

The salt bones picked clean, the last crow goes west

The clocks are all stopped but God is not mocked

There’s a serenading silhouette climbing the walls for his Juliet

Ah Juliet… Did they sign you off file and forget

Hush little mockingbird don’t say a word…

'Cause it still ain’t over yet