With your dirty wings in tatters
 Come home where you belong
 Nobody knows you better
 Now bring back your velvet heart
 And we'll make you brand new feathers
 Sleep through the morning light
 With your arms around your brother

 Babybird
 come back home
 Babybird
 you were never really on your own

 Now outside faces cry
 With the tears of lonesome orphans
 And behind every mask
 is the face of another
 Wherever you have been
 wherever you took cover
 No arms that pulled you in
 could hold you like your mother

 Babybird
 come back home
 Babybird
 you were never really on your own

 When all my colors fade
 And my wings, they've turned to leather
 I'll know the reasons why
 God let me get older
 When all my days are through
 And I fly these hills no longer
 I'll lay beneath the stars
 And I'll watch you flying over

 Babybird
 come back home
 Babybird
 you were never really on your own

 Babybird
 come back home
 Babybird
 you will never be all alone