Where
The Birds Always Sing
The world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
But the world is neither fair nor unfair
So one survives
The others die
And you always want
A reason why
But the world is neither just nor unjust
Its just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone
It
doesn't speak a plan or any secret thing
No wanting sign of untold truth in anything
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
We want everything
Another world
Where the sun always shines
And the birds always sing
Always sing
The
world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
No the world is neither fair nor unfair
So some survive
And others die
And you always want
The reason why
Though the world is neither just nor unjust
It's just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone
It
doesn't mean there has to be a way of things
No special sense that hidden hands are pulling strings
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
And it never is
We always want
So much more than this
An endless sense of soul and an eternity of love
Sweet mother down below and I'm just farther above
Living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
You want everything
Another world
Where the birds always sing
Another world
Where the sun always shines
Another world
Where nothing ever dies
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Robert
on 'Where The Birds Always Sing'...
"Part
of Iain Banks's The Crow Road dealt with themes that are also in "The
Birds Always Sing."" (The Final Cure, Barnes & Noble Online
23/2/2000, Ken Micallef)
"'Where the Birds Always Sing' arose out of a discussion with someone
who was experiencing a series of extremely terrible events, and who honestly
believed, due to a religious upbringing that somehow they'd done something
to deserve this. I got really upset about that, and wrote the words out
of my belief that things just happen because they happen. There's no great
force at work, there's no great master plan, there's nothing. I've kind
of lost all my earlier desire to believe in something or to seek something.
Which doesn't diminish my enjoyment of life at all, because I actually live
much more for the moment than I used to". (Pulse March 2000)
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