So here I am, wrote another song within the same week. This song has a faster tempo than the previous one. The lyrics is as such …
Author’s note: I remember when young, I took bus to school back in Hong Kong. During the right season, there would be swallows just at the balcony of the school near to the bus stop that I always used. Swallows make temporary homes before moving onto their migration journey. At times I miss the traveller kind of lifestyle.
My Little Swallow
One night on my way home I look at the star buried in the hazy sky
I turn up the music listen to the song that chills my heart
I feel the wind
The sense of freedom chills my spine
All by myself
My vision slowly fades away
One night on my way home my eyesight getting blurry I cannot see
This music in my head it slowly lifts me up to the sky
I hear a sound
A calling I have never heard before
Open my eyes
A swallow under the hazy sky
I recognise this beautiful swallow
Building a home on the way to your destination
I want to see you every single night
I often wonder what is it like to be you
All these homes you made these new faces you see every day
I often wonder what is it like to be with you
All these thrills up in the sky must be something to live for
My little swallow, all I want is to be with you
My little swallow, I want to know what’s it like to be you
My little swallow, all I want is to be with you
My little swallow, I want to know what’s it like to be you
Copyright © 2006 by Wilfrid K. F. Wong. All Rights Reserved.
5 replies on “My Little Swallow”
2 songs in 2 days? That’s pretty inspiring yar? Hmm… I wonder what caused it? I wonder how the song plays like? Sorry, but I can’t help saying this, are there some typos in the lyrics? Like, should it be “I want to know what’s it like to be you”?
Ya man … inspiration comes from all around us if we look hard enough. One day you may probably hear them in my car … hahaha … or when you drop by for some beer session. Thanks for pointing out the typo. Have you considered being my manager?
Not sure about manager… all the people who used to be managed by me seemed to somehow end up with strange, unexplained, untimely deaths… LOL JK! This line in the lyrics is a little bit out of the ordinary to be – “The sense of freedom chills my spine”. Freedom to me is one of the greatest things in Life. “Chills my spine” is usually related to bad stuff – the feeling you get when someone gives you a look that “chills my spine”, the harsh cold in winter, the eerie sounding of wardrobe door opening in the dead of the night… etc. The two do not quite gel for me. Other typos (maybe)… “star buried in the hazy sky”, “All by myself”?
Definitely need someone to help getting gigs for me and do the PR work and contract work … hahaha. 1) Freedom chills my spine Is freedom a good thing? To me it can be both good and bad. A life unrestrained is a good or bad thing? Deep thoughts …
So far, I seldom have friends who digest on my lyrics and comment on that. You are the first so it is good! Seriously it took me a while to digest what you were talking about because I guess I am really in it. Thanks!
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