Two Birds One Prayer (Official Audio)

just a simple song based on the meaning of said birds linked to my names meaning like and enjoy [Verse 1] A mourning dove on the wire Like a letter from the fire Soft grief in a feathered throat Still it keeps the whole air afloat You hear that coo fall slow Like a hand you used to know [Chorus] Two birds sing my name One for peace, one for pain Two birds sing my name And I come back again Mourning dove, nightingale Hold the heart when words fail [Verse 2] Your wings say stay, don't strike End the war inside tonight No more table turned to stone No more sleeping by the phone A pair on a cedar limb Teach me how to live like them [Verse 3] They share the nest, share the light Share the hungry hours of night One brings twigs, one keeps time Two small vows in perfect rhyme If love is work, then let it be Two birds making a family [Chorus] Two birds sing my name One for peace, one for pain Two birds sing my name And I come back again Mourning dove, nightingale Hold the heart when words fail [Verse 4] Then the nightingale arrives Spilling gold into the vines It sings long after sunset Like a promise not quite met Haunting, holy, hard to tame Every note a living flame [Verse 5] Keats left ash, Shelley left wind Homer heard the wound within But the bird kept singing through What the dark refused to do Beauty born from what was broke A song made out of smoke [Verse 6] Philomela in the hush Turned her silence into rush What they cut out, song replaced What they buried, voice outpaced Now the wound has somewhere to go Out through the midnight, low and slow [Chorus] Two birds sing my name One for peace, one for pain Two birds sing my name And I come back again Mourning dove, nightingale Hold the heart when words fail [Verse 7] In the east, in painted air Ukraine, Croatia, Iran were there Not just flags, but living breath A witness stronger than death And the Baha'i light says true The seeker hears it coming through [Verse 8] If you come to me in grief Be the branch, be the relief If you come as memory Set one empty chair in me Let the past not chain my door Let it teach me how to restore [Verse 9] So if I stand where roads divide Let the dove and nightingale decide Peace in the chest, fire in the tongue Old hurt healed, new heart begun One bird says forgive, be still One bird says sing until [Chorus] Two birds sing my name One for peace, one for pain Two birds sing my name And I come back again Mourning dove, nightingale Hold the heart when words fail