Magpie

from Time's Moving On by Roy Smiles

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Magpie

Magpie: stay away from my window
Magpie: stay away from my door
Magpie: don’t tell me of your sorrows
Magpie: I won’t hear them anymore.

Magpie: you won’t kill my laughter
Magpie: you won’t spoil my day
Magpie: you won’t harm my karma
Magpie: why don’t you fly away?

Chorus
One for sorrow, two for mirth
Three for a funeral, four for a birth
Five for silver, six for gold
Seven for a secret that can never be told
Eight’s for heaven, nine's for hell
Ten is for a love that treats you well (that treats you well).

Magpie: you won’t be my fortune
Magpie: you’ll not break my heart
Magpie: love will be my tomorrow
Magpie: each day a brand new start.

Magpie: I know my woman’s waiting
Magpie: you’ll not destroy my love
Magpie: she will be forever
Magpie: the sun will shine above.

Chorus

(Instrumental)

Winter is coming, why don't you fly?
Back to the land where dreams go to die?
Winter is coming, why don't you fly?
Back to the land where dreams go to die?

Chorus

Magpie: fly away this morning
Magpie: don’t haunt my days again
Magpie: for better times are coming
Magpie: there’ll be no more bitter rain.

Magpie: there’ll be no more bitter rain
Magpie: there’ll be no more bitter rain.

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from Time's Moving On, released June 4, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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