Meadowlark (From "The Baker's Wife") - Sarah Brightman/Andrew Lloyd Webber.mp3

[00:11.34]When I was a girl, I had a favourite story
[00:16.09]Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind
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[00:21.01]Her voice could match the angels in its glory,
[00:25.50]But she was blind,
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[00:29.31]The lark was blind.
[00:31.25]An old king came and took her to his palace,
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[00:35.99]Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid,
[00:40.43]
[00:41.42]And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed
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[00:50.54]Sing for me, my meadowlark
[00:56.34]Sing for me of the silver morning.
[01:01.46]Set me free, my meadowlark
[01:06.86]And Ill buy you a priceless jewel,
[01:09.54]And cloth of brocade and crewel,
[01:11.96]And Ill love you for life if you will
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[01:15.39]Sing for me.
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[01:19.66]Than one day as the lark sang by the water
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[01:24.67]The God of the sun heard her in his flight
[01:29.57]And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her
[01:34.38]The gift of sight,
[01:38.25]He gave her sight.
[01:40.20]And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour
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[01:44.85]Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong
[01:50.34]And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,
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[01:54.72]Come along,
[01:59.84]Fly with me, my meadowlark,
[02:05.88]Fly with me on the silver morning.
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[02:11.05]Past the sea where the dolphins bark,
[02:16.25]We will dance on the coral beaches,
[02:19.00]Make a feast of the plums and peaches,
[02:21.21]Just as far as your vision reaches,
[02:24.89]Fly with me.
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[02:29.25]But the meadowlark said no,
[02:32.02]For the old king loved her so,
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[02:35.14]She couldnt bear to wound his pride.
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[02:39.57]So the sun God flew away and when the king came down that day,
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[02:45.75]He found his meadowlark had died.
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[02:50.71]Every time I heard that part I cried.
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[02:57.76]And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.
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[03:02.80]Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb,
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[03:07.92]A beautiful young man appears before me
[03:12.87]Singing come
[03:16.43]Oh, wont you come?
[03:18.58]And what can I do if finally for the first time
[03:23.58]The one Im burning for returns the glow?
[03:27.89]
[03:28.94]If love has come at last its picked the worst time
[03:33.50]Still I know
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[03:37.30]Ive got to go.
[03:39.11]Fly away, meadowlark.
[03:44.10]Fly away in the silver morning.
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[03:49.22]If I stay, Ill grow to curse the dark,
[03:54.23]So its off where the days wont bind me.
[03:57.22]I know I leave wounds behind me,
[03:59.48]But I wont let tomorrow find me
[04:03.05]Back this way.
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[04:07.47]Before my past once again can blind me,
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[04:18.35]Fly away.
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[04:31.24]And we wont wait to say goodbye,
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[04:40.19]My beautiful young man and i.