[Verse 1]
I saw a nightjar
It looked at me
How great to be seen
By any old thing
There's fire in the clouds
In the light that shrouds
And I see him in the warmth endowed
[Chorus]
I've heard and been heard
Left cries unheard
But I can't change on my word
And I'll leave in the spring
When the bluebirds sing
And I won't leave a single thing
[Verse 2]
When the June Bugs swarm
In the basins form
I left my rage in a thunder storm
Dark as coal tar
Is the pain in the scar
Misery is a passing car
[Chorus]
And I'll leave in the spring
When the bluebirds sing
And I won't leave a single thing
And I just can't believe
Simply can't conceive
That I would ever want to be
Without you
[Verse 3]
I left in twenty
In the dying days
Drove to the South not for to stay
It don't get easy
It just gets far
You learn to be wherever you are