Came a yellow bird outside my window    Said bring me water and crusts of bread    Came a yellow bird outside my window    Said bring me water and crusts of break    For I’m injured and I’m haunted    By the storms in which I fled    I tried to fly to New Orleans    But I got lost in heavy rains    I tried to fly to New Orleans    But I got lost in heavy rains    I got many holes in my two wings    From arrows that you aimed    It wasn’t I wounded you I didn’t any arrows I could shoot    It wasn’t I wounded you, any arrows I could shoot    I’m just a lonely man, I never left this room    Besides that I, how on earth could I    Hurt anything so frail as thee    Besides that I, how on earth could I    Hurt anything so frail as thee    When we’ve never met before this moment    When you called for help from me       Now yellow bird step down into my room    And she chose her words carefully    Yellow bird stepped down into my room    She chose her words carefully    She said you were aiming for the sun    And I was just in-between    And every time you wish to die    An arrow was released    every time you wish to die    An arrow was released    And the only thing between dark and light    Was my breast or yellow wings    Well this can’t be true I shook with fear    Though I knew she didn’t lie    This can’t be true I shook with fear    Though I knew she couldn’t lie    I never wanted to harm anybody else    It’s just I who wish to die    And then the tears came rolling down    And the floor fell underneath    And then the tears came rolling down    And the floor fell underneath    And the yellow bird folded her wings together    And I dragged her down with me