Azure - Larks That Were Never Really There // Dawn Chorus lyrics

Once, upon a daydream in the sun I was squelching wellies in the Mud and muck, when mother called me home 'Stay indoors, and promise you won't go' I thought I saw you there Late that night, I crept outside once more Marched the mud along the kitchen Floor, the door was open wide again Easy to escape my country pen And in the dead of night I left my house behind What was my mother hiding from her only son? Whatever it happened to be, I could never return I could never go home again Father used to have a way with words (Tell me stories that I'd never heard) I ran away when I was just a girl (Mother said he was a useless) Drunk and tired, he said he didn't care Like I wasn't ever really there If I could fly away I'd try and find your face No-one will take your place Father, father gone without a trace I have lost everything for you A man I never knew The words are all I have to hang on to Something seemed a little odd to me Why would you pack your things and Leave me here? You weren't that kind of man Or were you? Maybe I'm exhausted and I'm old Should have believed what I was told I never learn Thanks to you I wasted my youth, my love, my life And now I lay with broken wings My mother said such awful things about you Yet here I am Here I am And now the dawn chorus, as it comes Brings with her a final song And finally, I can see The wings from your words