[Verse 1]
Pretty bird with feathers falling
Pretty as a lady calling
For her pink and midnight lover
As she stares into the water
And a yellow moon is rising
And there can't be no disguising
That the pretty bird is dying
With a silver arrow lying at its side

[Bridge 1]
Rivers of blood, oceans of tears
Life without death and death without reason

[Verse 2]
To the whole United Nations
To your greatest expectations
To the moment that you realize
As a dark figure slips from out of the shadows

[Chorus]
Pretty bird closes its eyes
Pretty bird dies
Another pretty thing dead
On the end of the shaft
Of the Zen Archer
[Verse 3]
A man in parts forgotten
With an outlook that is rotten
And an attitude to match it
Finds relief inside a hatchet
And he halved someone in Boulder
Justifiability is in
The hands of the beholder
And you just don't know
What people will do next

[Bridge 2]
Mountains of pain, valleys of love
Death without life and life without meaning

[Verse 4]
To the promise kept and broken
To the love that's never spoken
Just as surely as I'm in your ears
A dark figure slips from out of the shadows

[Chorus]
Pretty bird closes its eyes
Pretty bird dies
Another pretty thing dead
On the end of the shaft
Of the Zen Archer