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M. Craft
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Snowbird was just a little girl once
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All tangled up in dandelion hair and polka dots
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And a picture book mind full of dreams and designs
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And visions of faraway places
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Yeah, she drew underwater worlds and cities in the stars
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In the Asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars
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In felt tips and crayons her little works of art
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All promised a future of greatness
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She caught the sunlight in her eye
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Underneath the winter sky
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"I'll paint the world until I die", she said
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"One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird"
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Yes, I will
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Her daddy died when she was only ten
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But all she cried came out in ink and in pen
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She drew charcoal streets leading down to dead ends
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Where heads hung low in sorrow
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But she was left a small fortune at the reading of the will
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About enough for a life and then another life still
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And with her mother in a haze of vodka and pills
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Snowbird had just dreamed of tomorrow
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She caught the sunlight in her eye
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Underneath the winter sky
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"I'll paint the world until I die", she said
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"One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird"
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Yes, I will
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That's right
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Years went by and she hit eighteen
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And left home for the art-school scene
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To paint the people of the shadows and the faces unseen
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For her hero was now Egon Schiele
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But she did a couple of little canvases and bad super 8
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And a conceptual piece that was thirty years too late
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It was all she could fit between the dinner and the dates
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With dreamers and drummers and dealers
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She caught the sunlight in her eye
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Underneath the winter sky
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"I'll paint the world until I die", and she said
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"One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird"
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Yes, I will
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Well, who's that girl in the little black dress?
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Her head held high like a real princess
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A glimmering, shimmering, coked up mess
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A fashion trash, art school failure
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Yeah, her fingernails are all there's left to paint in her world
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She dishes out the dirt with the party powder girls
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Who think love comes in diamonds and wisdom in pearls
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And art is just paraphernalia
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She's lost the sunlight from her eye
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There's only a mirror ball left in her sky
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"I'll do what I want till the day that I die
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Now see me spread my wings, I can fly high like a snowbird
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Snowbird was just a little girl once, she was
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Snowbird was just a little girl once
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Snowbird was just a little girl once, she was
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Snowbird was just a little girl once but now she can fly
Anne Murray - Snowbird [LIVE, 1996]
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