Little Bird

Track 7 on Diva

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Apr. 6, 19921 viewer11.3K views

Little Bird Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I look up to the little bird
That glides across the sky
He sings the clearest melody
It makes me want to cry
It makes me want to sit right down and cry, cry, cry, yeah

[Verse 2]
I walk along the city streets
So dark with rage and fear
And I, I wish that I could be that bird
And fly away from here
I wish I had the wings to fly away from here, yeah

[Chorus]
But my, my I feel so low
My, my, where do I go?
My, my, what do I know?
My, my, we reap what we sow
They always said that you knew best but
This little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed so
I've just got to put these wings to test

[Post-Chorus]
Woo Ooh Hoo
Awww hawww
Woo Ooh Hoo
Awww hawww

[Verse 3]
For I am just a troubled soul
Who's weighted
(Weighted!)
Weighted to the ground
(Weighted to the ground, yeah weighted to the ground)
Give me the strength to carry on
Till I can lay my burden down
(Lay the burden down, yeah lay the burden down)
Give me the strength to lay this burden down, down, down, yeah
Give me the strength to lay it down
(Lay down, lay it down)

[Chorus]
But my, my I feel so low
My, my, where do I go?
My, my, what do I know?
My, my, we reap what we sow
They always said that you knew best but
This little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed so
I've just got to put these wings to test

[Post-Chorus]
Woo Ooh Hoo

[Chorus]
But my, my I feel so low
My, my, where do I go?
My, my, what do I know?
My, my, we reap what we sow
They always said that you knew best but
This little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed so
I've just got to put these wings to test

[Outro]
I feel so low
My, my, where do I go?
My, my, what do I know?
My, my, we reap what we sow

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Little Bird is from Annie’s debut album Diva. She also released an acousic version of the song.

Lennix later performed this song during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London in 2012, and it was also used in the movie Striptease starring Demi Moore.

Various quotes from Annie Lennox about “Little Bird”:

“Lennox wrote “Little Bird” in 1992, during a time in her life when she was dealing with the end of a marriage and the tragic death of a close friend. In an interview with NPR, she revealed that the song was a way for her to heal and find the strength to carry on. She wanted to write a song that would inspire others to do the same.”

“In the video for Little Bird, a pregnant Lennox serves as master of ceremonies as various actress show up in the different looks that she used in previous videos. Lennox recalled in a blog promoting The Annie Lennox Collection:

“When I was about to make the video with Sophie Muller I was seven months pregnant, so for that reason I came up with the idea of finding look-alikes to represent some of my different ‘personas,’ so I wouldn’t exhaust myself by having to perform the entire thing by myself. We held this audition that was probably one of the most surreal experiences of my life. Sophie and I were in the darkness of a theatre, while people queued up to present their version of what they thought could be a potential ‘Annie Lennox’ performance. It was the maddest thing. I was literally curled up in a ball with stifled hysterics on the floor of the theatre.”“

[Little Bird official music video:]