Wishing For Contentment Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire

Well, you know sometimes I find myself Wishing for contentment Hoping for relentment Venting my resentment On the happy few, on the happy few, yeah Awaiting resolution And dreams of restitution But finding

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?)

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

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

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

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

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

Way Out West Andrew Bird

way going to town Don't know who he is or what he's done But it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue Yeah it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue If I was in an old hotel That happened to be on fire

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Skin Is, My Andrew Bird

In the motherfuckin' place The Illustrator KM.G Yo 187, you gotta let 'em know what's goin' on See, I'm like a psycho, I meditate with a beat I add a rhyme, to make it sound complete I go into a state of

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

Heretics Andrew Bird

Born host to a tongue so sing a song about it Held a breath for too long till we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong, then you can blame us for it Turn the clamp on our thumbs so we're down

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

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

Action / Adventure Andrew Bird

wasting your time when you pick me up in duty free thats when i thought id be the cross in your t or must see tv but if you think im wasting your time again no, youre wasting mine when youre playing for

Sovay Andrew Bird

I was getting readyo be ahreat I was getting set for my Accidental suicide The kind where no one dies no one looks too surprised ?

Sweetbreads Andrew Bird

cause it's a question for the centuries from communion to mad cow disease but is it worthy of a song - all life's location?

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

Skin is，My Andrew Bird

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 . . .

Skin Andrew Bird

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 . . . bo-ring

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

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

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

Fake Palindromes Andrew Bird

You should have died with the monsters what talk Monsters what walk the earth And she's got red lipstick, and a bright pair of shoes And she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise She's got an old

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

Spanish For Monsters Andrew Bird

All alone now, guess I'm satisfiedAll alone now, guess I'm satisfied Lil' bit older now, guess I'm satisfied What a dream life would seemIf only they'd let you keep your etch-a-sketch What a dream ...

Auld Lang Syne Andrew Bird

Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind Should all acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne For auld lang syne my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup o' kindness yet For auld

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?

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

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 on the tarmac six miles south of

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

Candy Shop Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire

Well, piece by piece and nail by nail It'll all come down someday before the fires of hell You let me in your house You let me in your house You let me in your house with a hammer Set to tile or set to

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sisyphus Andrew Bird

Sisyphus peered into the mist A stone's throw from the precipice, paused Did he jump or did he fall as he gazed into the maw of the morning mist?

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

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

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

Carry the Fire Andrew Peterson

I will hold your hand, love As long as I can, love Though the powers rise against us Though your fears assail you And your body may fail you There's a fire that burns within us And we dream in the night

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

Not A Robot, But A Ghost Andrew Bird

come to blows But we don't want this anymore No, we don't want this anymore I crack the codes you end the war I hear the clockwork in your core Time strips the gears till you Forget what they were for