There's a mountain in my mouth
I don't know what I'm saying
There's a splinter in my eye
Don't know who I am betraying
And time will heal these wounds
But no one can tell me when
Last night I needed God
Baby I just needed a friend
But I didn't know this bird of prey
I didn't know this bird of prey
Would be circling everyday
I've seen the lightning strikes
Over the eastern seas
Roamed the frozen tundras
And felt the arctic breeze
And touched the morning dew
Under the London sun
I've been a refugee
Walking on the war scorched sands
But I didn't know this bird of prey
I didn't know this bird of prey
Would be watching me everyday
Jesus make these rivers
To drown all the sinners
To drown all the sinners
To drown all the sinners
I've been waiting for him
A thousand frozen winters
A thousand frozen winters
A thousand frozen winters
And I didn't know this bird of prey
I didn't know this bird of prey
Would be eating my bones away
Are you going back to rehab
Are you patching up your bleeding heart with pills
Or are you going back to Vegas
With your rolled up twenty dollar bills
But I didn't know this bird of prey
I didn't know this bird of prey
Would be eating my life away
Eating my life away