Mynah Bird

Mynah bird, mynah bird
How do you do?
A peckin’ and a pluckin'
On my old black shoe.

Mynah bird, mynah bird
Perchin’ on my fence
I just can’t understand you
‘cause you make no sense.

O the things that I’ve forgotten!
And O the things that I have lost!
The things I’ve buried: dead and rottin’
The things I’ve done and what they cost.

Mynah bird, mynah bird
A stranger in your land,
I’m tryin’ hard to listen hard
So I can understand.

Mynah bird, Minah bird
What did you say?
Was it supplication?
What’d you pray?

Memories like puzzle pieces
Scatter on the wooden floor
Or like cut crystal glasses

That shatter loudly all the more.

Mynah bird, Mynah bird
There’s something that I lack
Mynah bird, myna bird
Take me back!
Mynah bird, mynah bird
Take me back!
Take me back!
Take me back!