Beautiful Birds - Passenger

You remember when we were two beautiful birds,
We would light up the sky, when we'd fly,
You were orange and red, like the sun when it sets,
I was green as an apple's eye.

You said you loved all the songs that I'd sing, but nothing like you'd ever heard,
And I said I loved you with all of my heart when we were two beautiful birds.

Remember when we were two beautiful birds
We would say when the morning would come
You are silver and blue like the moon when it's new
I was gold as the summer sun.

But one day you asked for a different song
One that I just couldn't sing
I got the melody sharp, and the words all wrong
Those were the last days of spring.

To build a nest we pecked feathers from our chests
Like a book tearing out every page
We weren't to know that these feathers would grow
Into a beautiful cage.