Way Out West Andrew Bird

in an old hotel That happened to be on fire Maybe I'd jump or Maybe I'd reconsider Then I'd climb a little higher Like an oily rag In a dusty corner Like a box of matches near an open flame I'd jump 18

Way Out West Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire

Elder green is dead and gone Lost his way going to town And I don't know who he is, what he's done But it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue Yeah, and it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue

Darkmatter Andrew Bird

When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys While I became obsessed with Operation With hearts and minds and certain glands You gotta learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid

Simple X Andrew Bird

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

First Song Andrew Bird

Then it was dusk in Illinois a small boy After an afternoon of carting dung hung On a rail fence, a sapped thing So weary to crying Dark was growing tall He began to hear the pond frogs all calling

Andrew Bellman

On the surface of a meeken mind with words that sounds redeeming Hollow haze above my velvet shrine Be careful what you´re dreaming The world is made of cardboard and rain And a voice inside my head

Lull Andrew Bird

being alone it can be quite romantic like jacques cousteau underneath the atlantic a fantastic voyage to parts unknown going to depths where the sun`s never shone and i fascinate myself when i`m alone

Skin Is, My Andrew Bird

Just kickin' lyrics Dope lyrics Funky lyrics Unlawful lyrics Yo, drop your lyrics See, I'm livin' large, I clock dollars from day to day And on the weekend go out for some play I'm like ballin' with the

Action／Adventure Andrew Bird

now if you think i`m wasting your time again i`m wasting your time when you pick me up in duty free that`s when i thought i`d be the cross in your t or must see tv but if you think i`m wasting your

The Privateers Andrew Bird

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

A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left Andrew Bird

the history channel and ask our esteemed panel why are we alive and here's how they replied you're what happens when two substances collide and by all accounts you really should've diedstretched out

Nomenclature Andrew Bird

Just think of the lives you could swap with your own While you're selling your coats, you're sewing your own You know it's not the easy way Sometimes we've got to pay to play With finger paints and

The Naming Of Things Andrew Bird

Met the girl I, I love in a town way down in Dixie Beneath the stars up above She was the sweetest girl I ever did see So I held her in my arms and told her of her many charms I kissed her while the guitars

Don't Be Scared Andrew Bird

whenever paul thinks of rain, swallows fall in a wave and tap on his window with their beaks whenever paul thinks of snow, soft winds blow round his head and his phone rings just once late at

Oh No Andrew Bird

In the salsify mains of what was thought but unsaid All the calcified arithmetists were doing the math It would take a calculated blow to the head To light the eyes of all the harmless sociopaths Oh

Effigy Andrew Bird

If you come to find me affable Build a replica for me Would the idea to you be laughable Of a pale facsimile? So will you come to burn an effigy?

Bein' Green Andrew Bird

It's not easy bein' green Having to spend each day the color of the leaves When you could be something so much nicer Like red or yellow Aquamarine or something more colorful like that It's not easy bein

Armchairs Andrew Bird

I dreamed you were a cosmonaut Of the space between our chairs And I was a cartographer Of the tangles in your hair I sang the song that silence brings It's the one that everybody knows, everybody knows

Dear Old Greenland Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire

On the way to Greenland I shall find All the disparate fragments of your mind I shall return a different man And darling, do all that I can On the way to Greenland I shall find no mundane distractions

Oh Sister Andrew Bird

Our Father would not like the way that you act And you must realize the danger. Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you And one deserving of affection?

Left Handed Kisses Andrew Bird

I don't believe everything happens for a reason To us romantics out here, that amounts to high treason I don't go in for your star-crossed lovers In the heart of a skeptic There's a question that still

Fiery Crash Andrew Bird

starting to break off Just as you were starting to say Someday I'll propose I don't know These childs in magazines Blue doves in the sea on and devote every monitor screen You were caught in the cross fire

Measuring Cups Andrew Bird

Baby, I go too fast, too far Let's get it straight now, the way things are I'm not the white knight in your fantasy But I could be your wildest dream I might ride with the wind, I might follow the sun

Souverian Andrew Bird

The bells will ring Church steeple's catching fire And if you promise spring Then I know you are a liar Cause in the spring Tender grasses won't burn easily The thrushes sing Still my lover won't

Talking Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie

And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine, And I poured it full of this gas-i-line -- And I started, rockin\' an\' a-rollin\', Over the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl.

Two Way Action Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire

I've been driving all night Bathing in flourescent light Of a western Tennessee gas station With a pack of two-way action I'm subsisting on a fraction And I close my eyes and pretend I'm on vacation

The Happy Birthday Song Andrew Bird

Well, I knew a man named Campbell He'd cheat and steal and gamble And I guess, he tried most everything lowdown He was out tomcattin' last night When he got in a great big fight And then a big policeman

Sic Of Elephants Andrew Bird

You were right There was never reason to worry Money made your eyesight all blurry Making lists of pacifists Recalcitrant poses Can't you see how dangerous The one you chose is?

The Trees Were Mistaken Andrew Bird

kind of a story. this is a story man, about the serifs and ciphers that the scholars deciphered translations of sanskrit just as my handwritten story. this is a story where the singers begin to appear

Sweetbreads Andrew Bird

oh and the sweetest sweetbread of them all within the kingdom of afar call them thoughts and metaphor-inations they call them sweetbreads, I could taste what you were thinking sweetbreads, that's the taste

Scythian Empires Andrew Bird

짤 cases are useless While Scotch Guard Macintoshes shall be carbonized And now they're offering views of exiting empire Such breathtaking views of Scythian empires Scythian Empire, horsemen of the Russia

Sovay Andrew Bird

Then you realize that you're riding on the para-success of a heavy-handed metaphor ? And a feeling like you've been here before 'cause you've been here before And you've been here before ?

Anonanimal Andrew Bird

See a sea anemone, the enemy see a sea anemone And that'll be the end of me While the vicious fish was caught unawares In the tenderest of tendrils See a sea anemone, the enemy see a sea anemone And

Weather Systems Andrew Bird

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

Spare-Ohs Andrew Bird

The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney With remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect But the yolk isn't easy in fact it's a drag As they're blowin' through cornfields

Make It Without You Andrew Belle

This is the starting of my greatest fear I\'m all packed up getting out of here But then you call and tell me not to go That I\'m the one who put the rock n roll In your life This is the starting

Natural Disaster Andrew Bird

Look upon the field of snow and find the desert sea Under the ice the springs will flow to release Fecundates like a natural disaster, disaster From the first drop of water to the rage of Niagara Collapse

Imitosis Andrew Bird

anything but hear the voice That says that we're all basically alone Poor Professor Pension had only good intentions When he put his Bunsen burners all away And turned into a playground a Petri dish Of

Tenuousness Andrew Bird

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

Masterswarm Andrew Bird

swarm like smoke in the dawn We were the young, we were the swarm Radiolarians, midges and moths cut from a cloth We were the young, we were the swarm Flailing fetal fleas, feeding from the arms of

Heretics Andrew Bird

You make your mountains of handkerchiefs Where the mascara always runs So be careful when you're done you're bound to get post natal Wait, did I just hear you say Thank God it's fatal No, we don't want

Cataracts Andrew Bird

And when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers Milk that sours is promptly spat, light will fill our eyes like cats And they shall

Banking On A Myth Andrew Bird

theyre force feeding when the words we use have lost their bite now they hit you like an imaginary pillow fight oh, but its all right, yea, cause youre inside, and youre in tight deals in commodities of

Opposite Day Andrew Bird

I got home this morning with the sun right in my eyes And there was no warning as it took me by surprise as it Hit me like an Act of God, causing my alarm That I had now become a cephalopod I still

Fitz And The Dizzyspells Andrew Bird

weather And it blows Like it knows what's going wrong Like it's clever Has a name but the name goes unspoken Weather wanes Were all twisted and broken So soldier on, soldier on Flailing to the whir of

Skin is，My Andrew Bird

the only thing That doesn't really fly in my land And love, oh love Is my love is It's the only thing that Butterfly in Thailand Let it be printed on every t-shirt in this land On the finest of

Skin Andrew Bird

my it's the only thing that doesn't really fly in my land and love, oh love is my love is it's the only thing that butterfly in Thailand let it be printed on every t-shirt in this land on the finest of

The Water Jet Cilice Andrew Bird

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 self-torture

Richmond Woman Andrew Bird

Give her a red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes A new bob haircut and a shot of good booze her/(hurry?)

Happy Day Andrew Bird

I die some day Oh Lord, some day Some day Some happy day Some day I'll find The one with eyes that say those words I cannot find I hope I live before I die some day Oh, some day I hope there's tears of