Blackbird's Song.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.


"Blackbird was really about the struggle over civil rights: I had in mind a black woman, rather than a bird."
Paul McCartney, RS Magazine

Wonder what the blackbird in the image is thinking...

(I think I'll be careful next time I go into this part of industrial Dundee - let's just say that the bins were brand, spanking new - even though they'd been there for a good few years!).