ILoveHouseMusicTV's video: Annie Lennox - Little Bird House of Todd Terry Arista Records 1992

"Little Bird" is a song composed and recorded by the Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox. Taken from her debut solo album, Diva (1992), it was released in 1993 as a double A-side with "Love Song for a Vampire" (which appeared on the soundtrack for the Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker's Dracula) in Ireland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In other territories, "Little Bird" was released alone. The two songs were both released as separate singles in Italy. Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London on 12 Aug 2012. A live version was played in the end credits to The Sopranos episode "Eloise". The song was also featured in the film Striptease. The video for "Little Bird" does not appear on the video album for Diva but is heard instrumentally over the end credits. "Little Bird" / "Love Song for a Vampire" peaked at number three in the United Kingdom and Ireland and number 34 in Switzerland. "Little Bird" peaked at number 49 in the United States. It also peaked within top 10 in Canada, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In 2012, after Lennox performed the song during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, it charted as a solo single for the first time, reaching number 96 on the UK Singles Chart. Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. With a total of eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". I look up to the little bird That glides across the sky He sings the clearest melody It makes me want to cry It makes me want to sit right down And cry, cry, cry I walk along the city streets So dark with rage and fear And I, I wish that I could be that bird And fly away from here I wish I had the wings to fly away from here But my, my I feel so low My, my, where do I go? My, my, what do I know? My, my, we reap what we sow They always said that you knew best but This little bird's fallen out of that nest now I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed so I've just got to put these wings to test For I am just a troubled soul Who's weighted... Weighted to the ground Give me the strength to carry on Till I can lay this burden down Give me the strength to lay this burden down Down, down, yeah Give me the strength to lay it down But now, now I feel so low now, now, where do I go? now, now, what do I know? now, now, we reap what we sow They always said that you knew best but This little bird's fallen out of that nest now I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed so I've just got to put these wings to test