How does a sparrow know more than I?

When its mother is gone, it learns how to fly

With no direction, its wings in the wind

How does a bird know more than I?

How does the winter know to hold on

When it's scared of its shadow and flowers are gone?

The leaves all lay sleepin'

prayin' to hear spring-time songs

How does the winter know to hold on?

Nobody told me what I should do

When the world starts to rumble and shake under you

How does an orphan find its way home?

Reach out with no hand to hold

How do I make it alone?

What keeps a river runnin' that way?

Is it slave to the ocean, a wild runaway?

Does it shed a tear, all who have drowned in its wake?

What keeps a river runnin' that way?

Nobody told me what I should do

When the world starts to rumble and shake under you

How does an orphan find its way home?

Reach out with no hand to hold

How do I make it alone?

Nobody told me what I should do

When the world starts to rumble and shake under you

I am an orphan a long way from home

And I reach out with no hand to hold

How do I make it alone?

How does a sparrow know more than I?

When its mother is gone, it learns how to fly