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Songbird
Words & Music by David Wolford & Steve Nelson*Recorded by Barbra Streisand, 1978
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Songbird sings from the heart; each word can tear you apart.
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I sing, you sing along, you find your life in my song.
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When you need the strength to carry on,
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You've got me to turn to;
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With the songs that I sing, and the magic they bring,
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They've helped you be strong now.
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The song sets you free, but who sings to me?
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I'm all alone now. Who sings for songbird?
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Sometimes, when I'm all alone, I sing my saddest song;
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Lonely, and no one can see this time the song is for me.
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I can touch your secret place inside,
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And still you don't know me;
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With the songs that I sing, and the magic they bring
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You've learned to be strong now
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The song sets you free, but who sings to me?
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I'm all alone now.
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Where is my songbird who sings his song for me?
*This song certainly lead me on one merry chase. It took tracking down a second-hand copy of the 1978 album of the same name to find the author's names -- and despite the album liner having a nearly exhaustive list of credits, the authors' names appear only on the label itself, listed as D.Wolford & S. Nelson. This chart (with that information) has been here for roughly a year, and it was only recently that a visitor e-mailed me with their first names.