Flight of the Birds

Lyrics

[Chorus x2] Sometimes you are the flight of the birds And other times, you're watching the flight of the birds [Verse 1] If I could crawl into the wall And face all in my guts Walk them in the dark And feed them to my young I'd say "Baby bird, baby bird, wake up it is day Baby bird, what's the word? You won't eat what I prey?" Well this, it comes from me And you, you are of me too So what, I ask, is the dilemma? Please do eat me through For sacrifice is my final lesson This is what I say I give myself for you to eat So you may live another day Some days you wanna hollow away and hollow in your egg Other days you feel like hatching and falling out your nest Some days you don't admit to your inexplicable loneliness And coping with yourself is the only mask in hand that might just fit In one way, I'm coordinated enough to lead thee Another way, I'm hungry Who the fuck's gonna feed me? You contradicted feathered inhuman being, leave me Wishless, living no hard, giving cold start shivers, be Free! [Chorus x2] Sometimes you are the flight of the birds And other times you're watching the flight of the birds [Bridge] Go pour a drink, go read a book, put if off a day Go march around in circles in the back when you're wide awake Go think about what you'd rather do and pass it up again Go ahead, just fall into the back of the (???) draft wind Thanks for watching yourself Well are you watching yourselves? Thanks for watching yourself Just for watching ourselves Just for watching yourself Well are you watching yourselves? Thanks for watching yourself [Verse 2] It's a life of tree branches and telephone poles Baby bird, on the wire One hell of an old soul Feeling vibrations of conversations, cheek to cheek The monarchy of eavesdropping, common pigeon feet A life operated around awkward dates and times Migratory patterns and these tattered wings of mine I'm flattered that you think I look brilliant in flight I must have two or three billion affiliates alike Huh, I love hearing it, though But it's steering my growth You look at me in flight, and I appear in the flow (Sometimes) Ha! I say fuck the bird's eye view Tell me a good perspective of the worms I chew Things that you learned when I flew Wings that I've earned with a solid flight crew Don't be unnerved I'm not really like you I like you, but I walk by day and fly the night through [Chorus x2] Sometimes you are the flight of the birds And other times you're watching the flight of the birds [Bridge 2] Make a mistake or do it right It's up to you This wing-flapper's sacrifice is nothing new I'd shake your hand and feather-dust New Amsterdam But I'm just busy right now cancelling all my plans Thanks for watching yourself Well are you watching yourselves? Thanks for watching yourself Just for watching ourselves Just for watching yourself Well are you watching yourselves? Yes I'm watching myself Yes I'm watching myself [Outro] Give it up to all innovators of flight Starting with the short-tailed albatross King rail Bloody sheldrake Stormy petrels Mallards Blue-footed booby The shoveler, baby Common loon Sandhill crane Don't forget the great auk Even though y'all extinct, I still love ya, baby