Blackbird -- Beatles

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 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,
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,

McCartney was inspired to write it while in Scotland as a reaction to racial tensions escalating in the United States in the spring of 1968.

I had been doing poetry readings. I had been doing some in the last year or so because I've got a poetry book out called Blackbird Singing, and when I would read "Blackbird", I would always try and think of some explanation to tell the people, 'cause there's not a lot you can do except just read the poem, you know, you read 10 poems that takes about 10 minutes, almost. It's like, you've got to, just, do a bit more than that. So, I was doing explanations, and I actually just remembered why I'd written "Blackbird", you know, that I'd been, I was in Scotland playing on my guitar, and I remembered this whole idea of "you were only waiting for this moment to arise" was about, you know, the black people's struggle in the southern states, and I was using the symbolism of a blackbird. It's not really about a blackbird whose wings are broken, you know, it's a bit more symbolic.

— Paul McCartney, Interview with KCRW's Chris Douridas, 

                   

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