BIRD IN A CAGE

They’re deporting U.S. citizen now—children. I can’t stop imagining what it would be like to have masked, armed men invade my home, rip my family apart, and ship me to some random country…and the beauty of everything you can see on your first time on an airplane.

She was born in Missourah, where the Mississippi curves and the corn grows straight

her daddy’s from the next town over, her mama comes from far away

Her favorite part of school is recess – she’s the undisputed queen of skipping rope

and Spanish class is super-easy, ‘cuz at home she speaks both

then men with guns came through the door

and drove her to the airport

She’s never seen so much of the world, before

greens and blues and open plains

She’s flying through the sky 

like a bird… a bird in a cage

Policemen catch the bad guys, she asks what they did wrong, but they won’t say

her little sister can’t stop crying, mama wipes the tears away

She asks who’ll feed her rabbit, she asks when they can go back home

She asks why daddy couldn’t join them , she ain’t ever felt this much alone

men with guns came through the door

and drove her to the airport

She’s never seen so much of the world, before

greens and blues and open plains

She’s flying through the sky 

like a bird… a bird in a cage

When you look up in the sky

and a jet plane’s streaking by

that’s her going away

can you see her wave?

She’s never seen so much of the world, before

greens and blues and open plains

She’s flying through the sky 

like a bird… a bird in a cage

a bird in a cage

a bird in a cage