The air was thick like honey   Looking from a room   The room had open windows   To let this springtime through     Evening stood by watchin'   At the side of summer's promise   The flowers in her garden   Were the envy of her friends     How far are we from dying   Is it nearly at an end?   How far are we from dying   Is it nearly at an end?     The smoke hung on the skyline   The city fell in silence   The sunset, ripe and mellow   Was the light to write some thoughts by     Her children watched for father   From a window in the wall   Said a prayer for grandpapa   And maybe many more     Somewhere in the distance   On the road so far away   I heard the sound of life   Though the people left for home     Three birds flew off a building   Standing proud against the sky   Many more flew with them   Spiralled up like laughter     Faster, harder   They rose up in a column   Hundreds upon hundreds   And twice that many wingspeed     Four miles across   Stretched a million miles high   The living pulsing column   In the lady of the sky     Feathers thrashed together   Locked in that huge swarm   I knew no-one could see it   And now that it was gone     I rubbed my eyes and tried to find   A reason for the flight   Exodus, escape   Or was it just for me to see?     Like the mating of the earth and air   Like water is to flowers   The envy of her friends   How far are we from dying, is it nearly at an end?     How far are we from dying   Is it nearly at an end?   How far are we from dying   Is it nearly at an end?...