Тексты песен «Andrew Bird»

Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean Moon plays the ocean like a violin Pushing and pulling from shore to shore Biggest melody you never heard before What if I were the night sky I were the night sky Is my lullaby...

Some people wake up on Monday mornings Barring maelstroms and red flare warnings With no explosions and no surprises Perform a series of exercises Hold your fire Take your place around an open fire Before your...

My skin is white as parchment Drier than a downtown office building Where the air is tight There's time spent, resting on her bones Waiting for the telephone to ring Ba-ring, ba-ring, ba-ring Ba-ring, ba-ring,...

Take your apples from the earth And your fingerlings from the air If you cried when you were born 'Cause it ain't fair You got nothing, nothing to wear And there's a drink that we're all needing A need to weep but we...

Sometimes when I am worth it And my mind doesn't have my best interests in mind Doesn't have my best interests in mind To times like these that my feet, they speak and sing 'Cos they do so better than can my hand...

Though bells will ring church steeples catchin' fire And if you promise spring then I know you are a liar 'Cause in the spring tender grasses won't burn easily Though thrushes sing still my lover won't return to me...

I was getting ready to be a threat I was getting set for my Accidental suicide The kind where no one dies No one looks too surprised Then you realize That you're riding on a para-success Of a heavy-handed metaphor And a...

The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney What remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect But the yoke isn't easy, in fact it's a drag Acid blown to cornfields and mountains of rice...

Echoes down water wells Picked up in sacred spirograph Weekend and winter's unendable bendable baby They buried him next to his first wife His widow watched from under a visor Daughter tried to keep her out of the sun...

If we can call them friends We can call them on red telephones And they won't pretend That they're too busy or they're not alone An' if we can call them friends then we can call Holler at 'em down these hallowed...

Tenuous at best was all he had to say When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans Greek Cypriots and and harbor sorts who hang around in ports a lot Here's...

When I wake up in the morning Pour the coffee and I read the paper An' then I slowly and so softly do the dishes And feed the fishes Sing me "Happy Birthday" Sing it like it's going to be your last day Like it's...

You remind me of you The way you shot right through and how You broke my window glass Fast, it happened so fast I have to confess that I That I was impressed that I That I was impressed that I Despite all the...

Don't sell me anything Your one time offer so uncalled for, you call it piece of mind 'Cause I can see your house from here Now leaves have fallen, dear I can see you're just a little privateer As your confession draws...

I knew this one girl Drowned in her own curls Candy colored swirls That never seemed to end I could not comprehend Half what she said to me So casually All our tender ears would bend Tales of ritual...

Here's a little game You can play alone Oh, you do the walk of shame From the comfort of your home So here's another game You can play along Where you empty all your blame From your guilty bones Oh, the eyes, the eyes,...

Quiet, quiet down, she said Speaking to the back of his head On the edge of her bed I can see your blood flow Your cells grow Hold still a while Don't spill the wine I can see it all from here I can see, I can...

It's gonna rain champagne And the hills are gonna dance There'll be power in the blood When the helicopters come Sky will swim in lightning fire And the trees will shake and scream There'll be power in the blood When...