Birdbrained

Lyrics

[Verse 1] In my younger days, I was much older then I swam in Edens of amoebas on a planet Same as this one with the spineless and the miserable And from the water's edge, stuck out my birdbrain's head As the yolk spilled from the egg, I washed the jelly from my legs And joined the upright and the uptight and the miserable [Chorus 1] I'll change my form, a billion years Respond to every conditioning The world is old, but still naive The way I've tried to be [Verse 2] Resort to jaded ways, (we had) we had excuses made When I'm gnarled like Nicodemus, I'll need someone to attend me Can I count on you to do this? A quite untreatable prolonged inevitable (We have) Something crawled out from my head I washed the dirt off from its face And joined the upright and the uptight and the miserable [Chorus 2] My grace deforms before you, dear I take whatever you give to me The world is old, but bored to tears And I don't want to be [Bridge] (Oh) No better time, no certain place It's a lonely life in an empty nest In a new incubative mother's breast The world's a worm in the beak at best And I don't wanna be Oh, oh Oh, oh [Verse 3] And as the yolk spilled from the egg, as the egg fell from the ledge As my wings were molting off, I felt a sense of dread When I waddled in disgrace back towards my nesting place Join the spineless and the timeless and the cynical [Chorus 1] I'll change my form, a billion years Respond to every conditioning The world is old, but still naive The way I've tried to be Oh, oh Oh, oh [Outro] So when you wash the dirt off from your face Well, I don't want to see