Meadowlark
Brightman Sarah

Brightman Sarah

The Songs That Got Away

Meadowlark

When I was a girl, I had a favourite story

Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind

Her voice could match the angels' in its glory,

But she was blind,

The lark was blind.


An old king came and took her to his palace,

Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid,

And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed



Sing for me, my meadowlark

Sing for me of the silver morning.

Set me free, my meadowlark

And I'll buy you a priceless jewel,

And cloth of brocade and crewel,

And I'll love you for life if you will

Sing for me.



Then one day as the lark sang by the water

The god of the sun heard her in his flight

And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her

The gift of sight,

He gave her sight.

And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour

Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong

And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,

Come along,



Fly with me, my meadowlark,

Fly with me on the silver morning.

Past the sea where the dolphins bark,

We will dance on the coral beaches,

Make a feast of the plums and peaches,

Just as far as your vision reaches,

Fly with me.




But the meadowlark said no,

For the old king loved her so,

She couldn't bear to wound his pride.

So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day,

He found his meadowlark had died.

Every time I heard that part I cried.



And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.

Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb,

A beautiful young man appears before me

Singing Come

Oh, won't you come?

And what can I do if finally for the first time

The one I'm burning for returns the glow?

If love has come at last it's picked the worst time

Still I know

I've got to go.



Fly away, meadowlark.

Fly away in the silver morning.

If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark,

So it's off where the days won't bind me.

I know I leave wounds behind me,

But I won't let tomorrow find me

Back this way.



Before my past once again can blind me,

Fly away.



And we won't wait to say goodbye,

My beautiful young man and I.


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Lyrics by Brightman Sarah

  A question of honour   A whiter shade of pale   Alhambra   All I ask of you   Alleluja   Amigos para siempre   Another suitcase in another hall   Anything but lonely   Anytime, anywhere   Ave Maria   Away from you   Baïlèro   Chanson d'enfance   Chi il bel sogno di Doretta   Come you not from Newcastle?   Dans la nuit   Dear Harp of my Country!   Deliver me   Desert rose   Dive   Do you wanna be loved   Don't cry for me Argentina   Don't give up   Dreamers   Dust in the wind   Early one morning   Eden   En Aranjuez con tu amor   Everything's alright   Figlio perduto   Fileuse   First of May   First of May -- 1999 live version   Fly   Ghost in the machinery   Gloomy Sunday   Guardami   Gus: the theatre cat   Half a moment   He doesn't see me   He moved through the fair   Heaven is here   Here with me   Hijo de la luna   Him   How can heaven love me -- PeCh remix   How can heaven love me -- video version   How can heaven love you   How fare this spot   How sweet the answer   Hurry home   I am going to like it here   I lost my heart to a starship trooper   I loved you   I remember   If I ever fall in love again   If love were all   Il mio cuore va   In pace   In Paradisum   In trutina   Island   Johnny wanna live   Just show me how to love you   La belle est au jardin d'amour   La califfa   La luna   La lune   La mer   La Wally   Lascia ch'io pianga   Little Sir William   Lud's wedding   Macavity: the mystery cat   Memory   Moon river   Mr. Monotony   Murder in Mairyland Park   Naturaleza muerta   Nella fantasia   Nessun dorma   No llores por mí Argentina   No one like you   O can ye sew cushions?   O mio babbino caro   O Waly, Waly   Oft in the stilly night   Oliver Cromwell   On the Nile   Once in a lifetime   Once in a lifetime -- 1996 ballad version   Once in a lifetime -- 1996 remix   Only an ocean away   Pie Jesu   Pie Jesu (solo version)   Quand j'étais chez mon père   Rain   Regnava nel silenzio   Scarborough Fair   Seven seas   She doesn't see him   Ship of fools   Silent heart   So many things   Solo con te   Solveig's song   Something in the air   Somewhere   Starship trooper -- 1998 remix   Summertime   Surrender   Sweet Polly Oliver   Tú   Tú quieres volver   Tell me on a Sunday   The Ash Grove   The fly   The last rose of summer   The last words you said   The Last Words You Said S_*   The music of the night   The phantom of the opera   The Plough Boy   The same thing to you   The second element   The second element II   The Second Element II I_*   The trees they grow so high   The unexpected song   There for me   Think Of Me   This love   Three-cornered tune   Time to say goodbye -- Sarah's solo version   Un jour il viendra   Voici le Printemps   What makes me love him?   When it rains in America   Whistle down the wind   Who wants to live forever   Why   Winter in July   Winter light   You take my breath away

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