Sally's Pigeons

Album: Hat Full of Stars (1993)
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  • When I was eight I had a friend
    With a pirate smile
    Make believe and play pretend
    We were innocent and wild
    Hopped a fence and slammed the gate
    Running down my alleyway
    In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly

    We loved to watch them dive and soar
    Circle in the sky
    Free as a bird from three to four
    And never knowing why
    Neighbors pulled their wash back in
    Put away my Barbie and Ken
    Look out overhead
    While Sally's pigeons fly

    I had a fool's confidence
    That the world had no boundaries
    But instincts and common sense
    Come in different quantities

    My heart began to skip to the beat
    Of the boy next door
    She had her eye across the street
    On someone shy and tall
    We lived our dreams
    And challenged fate
    In tears she told me she was late
    And Sally let his pigeons out to fly

    Mhm
    Oh

    On the dresser sits a frame
    With a photograph
    Two little girls in ponytails
    Some twenty one years back
    She left one night with just a nod
    Was lost from some back alley job
    I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly
    She never saw those birds again
    And me, I can't remember when
    A pirate smile hasn't made me cry
    I close my eyes
    And Sally's pigeons fly

    Mhm, mhm Writer/s: Cyndi Lauper, Mary Carpenter, Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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