Тексты песен Andrew Bird

Since I first saw him, I think myself blind. I look around me, and it's only him I see. His image floats before me, So gentle and so kind, he has got a clear mind and firm courage Oh, ring upon my fin

I 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 Underneath her tender gills I will become this ani

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

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 be

Instrumental look at you, you disgust me sitting there staring at me giving me no more respect than the images on your tv well I have a wish for you oh I have a wish for you may all your mornings be b

I'm a breather mail receiver And I don't know where I stand Not since someone informed me That my house was built on sand And it's not the earth beneath me It's just the concept of the land And I'm st

You were a shameless child Bandied by stiff cross currents Anything but mild Yes and no just simply weren't Invented yet Oh yes oh no Then one day you'd had it Exiled your close advisors Ousted your

On the way to Greenland I shall find All the disparate fragments of my 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 of

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 night-l

It rained it poured It rained so hard Rained so hard all day 'Till all the boys in our school Came out to talk and play They tossed the ball Again so high Then again so low Till it fell into a flower

Would it be easier so much easier If you never knew us Would you ever fear anymore If you never knew us Would we meet on a fatal shore On a fatal shore? When are you comin to shore To never fear anymo

Feetlips, why do you do that way? You know you'll have to pay for your making us nauseous Feetlips, you know today's the day you turn the other way and you eat your galoshes you thought Somepeople was

Two stars are missing me Jet waves are driving me Thing in nicer motions We are hauled into space This force is twisting the faith with superstition A fatal premonition You know you've got to envision

then it was dusk in Illinois a small boy, after an afternoon of carting dung hung on a rail fence, a sapped thing weary to crying dark was growing tall he began to hear the pond frogs all calling on h

Did you give it away Did you give it away for free Don't you give it away Let's try to keep it in the family I know you know desolation Coming home with your pockets full of sand I know it's no vacati

You've got me sitting on your mantle like a little glass figurine Why must you be so mean? Don't you know I've got better things to do I'm like a mail order product from a housekeeping magazine. How u

My pitiful sorrows have seen more tomorrows than yours My rain really pours At least more than yours At least more than yours In the depths of my sadness there's a beautiful madness you see It's right

Some day Some happy day Some day I'll find I live before 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

Bored holes through our tongues To sing a song about it Held our breath for too long 'til we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong And you can blame us for it Turn a clamp on our thumbs We'l

I woke with a start Crying bullets, beating heart To hear all God's creatures Roaring again Not a cricket was creaking, Or a floorboard was squeaking, And all the world was snoring for show There's a

His keeping busy, yeah he's bleeding stones, With his machinations and his palindromes It was anything but hear the voice Anything but hear the voice It was anything but hear the voice That says that

I said no, don't worry no, please don't worry no, don't worry see what the Lord has done just keep your lamp all trimmed and burning keep your lamp trimmed and burning keep your lamp all trimmed and b

Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name Get out your measuring cups and we'l

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

Used to be like toffee in a kitten's teeth Used to build air raid shelters out of sticks and leaves And spend the whole day underneath Used to be like copper Pliable but strong Used to smile and nod a

I run the numbers through the floor here's how it goes: I crack the codes I crack the codes that end the war I crack the codes that end the war I pushed a note under your door here's how it goes: thin

In the Salsify mains Of what was thoughtful and sad All the calcified arhythmatists Were doing the math. And it would take a calculated Blow to the head to Blind the eyes of all the harmless Sociopath

Oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms Please do not treat me like a stranger. Our Father would not like the way that you act And you must realize the danger. Oh, sister, am I not a brother to yo

And there are places we must go to To bring these hollow words on back from You must cross a muddy river Where love turns to love turns to fear They say you don't look There's only one way On back fro

I bear no grudge, even though my heart may break Eternally lost love, I bear no grudge Though you're shining in your diamond splendor No ray of light falls on the darkness of your heart I've known it

This isn't your song This isn't your music How can they be wrong When by committee they choose it all? They choose it all Chin chin Chin chin You're gonna grow old You're gonna grow cold Bearing signs

Five day forecast bring black tar rains and hellfire while handpicked handler's kid gloves tear at the inseams their Halliburton attaché cases are useless while scotch guard Macintoshes shall be carbo

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? Which brings us back t

If 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 Here's my lull

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 Be

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-ri

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-ha

Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird 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 If we can call them friends we can cal

I'd start over if I could. From the tropic of Cancer, to Capricorn, you so far from your sofa along. Now you spin dirty laundry You dream of the kind of love you knew the day you're born Night's falli

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 harbor sorts who hang around in port

The giant of Illinois Died of a blister on its toe After walking all day through the first winter's snow Throwing bits of stale bread To the last speck of dawn He never even felt his shoe fill with bl

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 Despit

This is a story, some kind of a story this is a story about about a boy and girl, a girl and a boy, a boy. ( ), only fighting. that some boy in the dark while he learned to evolve inverted crystal mou

There'll be three white horses All in a line There'll be three white horses In a line Three white horses when you go that way You'll need somebody when you come to die Don't dismiss it like it's easy

Late New Years Eve paper hat on your head It was hard to believe that you'd ever be dead And that dream that you're falling you've had since you're five Is a bird on your shoulder that whispers goodby

Two young sisters were walking alone By the pale muddy waters Two young sisters were walking alone By the pale muddy waters of Onion town When one of them pushed the younger in Into the cold green wat

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 B

Elder Green is dead and gone Lost his 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

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 s

Since I first saw him, I think myself blind I look around me, and it's only him I see His image floats before me, So gentle and so kind, he has got a clear mind and firm courage o ring upon my finger,