Wings Of The Dawn

Intro: D G \nVerse 1: D G Em A\nI flew between the buildings with pigeons today\nI sat on sunny windowsills and cooed the skies of grey\nSaw everybody people watching, learning how to play\nAnd wondered who would I be watching on my final day\nI settled on the clock tower and listened to it chime\nBut timing to a pigeon is a painting to the blind\nI spread my wings and let the sunlight filter through my feathers\nThen took into the air but I stayed clear below the heavens\nleft my post and headed to the museum corridors\nleft my mark on history, it dribbled down the walls\n\nChorus\nD G Em A\nThen I rose up on the wings or the dawn\nAnd settled on the far side of the sea\nBut still your hand was there, waiting for me\n\nD G D G\n\nVerse 2:\nD G Em A\nI flew above the pyramids, I flew above the Nile\nI rested at the colosseum but only for a while then\nHeaded north but Santa Claus was nowhere to be found\nI waved goodbye to polar bears and kept on going round then\nThe sunlight in the Caribbean warmed me to the bone\nI could fly these skies forever but I knew I must go home\n\nChorus\n\nBridge: D G Em A\n21 years, will I see 22\n21 years I was given by you\n21 years is a long time for a pigeon\nI consider myself lucky though I still have my religion\nThere’s a shell on the beach and it shows you the answer\nCos I know where you’ve been and I lay where you lie\nBut shells on the beach are as vast as the cancer\nThe word in the blankets that is buried alive\n\nChorus: D G Em A\nSo I rose up on the wings or the dawn\nAnd settled on the far side of the sea\nBut still your hand was there,\nstill your hand was there\nstill your hand was there\nwaiting for me\n\nVerse 3: D G Em A\nAs I flew above your lead you looked up from below\nYou said I’m a man today but I’m a bird tomorrow\n\nOutro: D G D G D G A D