there s a big black bird high up in the pines shes been watching me every night been watching every time shes seen my creeping my secret keeping while you ve been sound asleep and she s the only one that knows what ive been doing or i d be six feet deep i walk on down to the river i wait upon the bank i fancy nothing but my secret loving and how your heart would break but then he pulls me near i know just why i m here forbidden love is but a dream but in the dark i see i see big eyes of green she just won t let me be everywhere i go i see her following me raps at my window waits at the gate i see her in my dreams just the other night while my mainline was out me and my lover for just one hour we made the lights go out i know i ve been so wrong but wrong it feels so right and like a drunk i ll drink my fill give me that reckless love our old time careless love a lying heart is such a thrill i hear the sound of wings her darkness falls upon me into her depths ill sink to guilt and misery and like a bird i ll sing