Bravebird - Amel Larrieux

In a land far away

Where the sun doesn’t spare a soul

And a twisted tradition

Has a girl in a strangle hold

Lies a desert with the footprints

Of little girls with a secret

Of a pain that you and I could never know

Little feet running fast as they can

Like a bird in flight

Through the days of sand

With a fire in the sky and through indigo nights

She runs away from a life spent

Being witness to other unwilling participants

Of a pain that you and I could never know

You’re a bravebird

Of the rarest kind

You may be one of the walking wounded

But still you fly

You’re a bravebird

You put yourself on the line

When you shared your secret with the world

You saved another mothers child

As she speaks you can tell

That the words are not easy to say

They hold the power to transport her

Back to that impossible day

But she hasn’t any regrets

'Cause she won’t become a woman with a secret

Of a pain that you and I could never know

That you and I could never know

That you and I could never know