I give you this song

for I want to forget my memory of you
but I don't want the memory to be forgotten
therefore I'll sing these words
as if they were someone else's
I'll speak of him instead of you
and pretend the lines of this song
have always been there
bird why do you sing
when the other is gone

for those wings were the ones that you flew with

and to enshroud your words
won't make them disappear
every word will be his from now on
I've been waiting for a long time here
it's been so cold without him near
I've been waiting for a long time to see him here
it's been so cold without him near
I can change my words, I can cover them up
but in every birdsong I will hear his song
every sound will encompass these words

I know, I know:

there's no bird that can compare to him at all