there goes that damn bird on my fencepost she cries she cries do you know do you know well yeah it s apparent she s gone and there she ll stay no phone call or a sign of a note of a note she looked at me so seriously i could ve sworn that love was in her eyes but now she s gone and i m singing this song to a lonely random bird on the wire she always was the type who thought love was a chore no matter what she had she wanted more she wanted more and even as i breathed her in and felt her skin so tight i never seemed to fit her right and she found the door she found the door she looked at me so seriously i could ve sworn that love was in her eyes but now she s gone and i m singing this song to a lonely random bird on the wire don t ask me what it is about the girls who play hard to get she swore eternally that she loved me i never want to counter that she looked at me so seriously i could ve sworn that love was in her eyes but now she s gone and i m singing this song to a lonely random bird on the wire