Playlist Andrew Bird

andrew bird - 50 pieces

You've been away for such a long long time
Gone from the brickyard, gone from the mine
All these unfamiliar places used to find your measured paces
Now it's all arriving, now it's all just fine
I thought perhaps we could sit down for tea
Nein, was the cold reply of Frau ecstasy
Sitting on a mossy stump, among all the bottles drunk, breathe cold against the air
Oh I smell your ragweed hair, smoked to the bone, soaked to the bone I'm all alone, poor me
I thought perhaps we could sit down for tea
Nein, was the cold reply of Frau ecstasy
Hey, who's that old man in the overalls,
His cows lick the ice from off the stable walls
Hey, who's that old man in the overalls,
His cows licked the ice from off the stable walls

andrew bird - a nervous tic motion of the head to the left

Over prescribed
Under the mister
We had survived to turn on 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 died
Stretched out on the tarmac
Six miles south of north platte
He can?t stand to look back
At sixteen tons of hazmat
And it?s what goes
Undelivered undelivered
And it?s a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
It?s a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
Exorcise your cells till you?re bereft
?cause it?s a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
Splayed out on a bathmat
Six miles north of south platte
And he just wants his life back
What?s in that paper knapsack
It?s what goes undelivered
Over imbibed
Under the mister
Barely alive we
Cover the blisters in flannel
Though the words we speak are banal
Not one of them?s a lie
Not one of them?s a lie
You?re what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should?ve died

andrew bird - a woman s life and love

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, little golden ring
devoutly I press you to my lips and to my heart
sisters come adorn me, banish foolish fear
twine upon my furrowed brow
the blossoming myrtle
I serve him and live for him
Belong wholly to him
Give myself and find myself transfigured by his brightness
Ring upon my finger, little golden ring
Devoutly I press you to my lips and to my heart
The blissful dream of childhood has ended
Now I drink delicious death with you my love
Now you have me caused me my first pain ? that really hurt.
You sleep, you hard cruel man, the sleep of death
The veil falls, the bell tolls, the black shawls, the carriage rolls
You, my whole world.

andrew bird - action adventure

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 time again
No, you're wasting mine
When you're playing for a prime-time dream
The c n b scene
Now i'm just split in your seam the i in your team

Ooo please don't get too excited
Oooo maybe you're not invited to my action adventure
My action adventure dream

So when you think you're on the fast track
You find it's just a cul-de-sac back
In that adult lifestyle community
Where all your little boys, your action toys are duty free

Ooo please don't get too excited
Oooo maybe you're not invited to my action adventure
My action adventure dream

So i wonder what you got your persona for
Cause there's a 2-for-one down at the corner-store
And i wonder could ya pep it up a bit
You know throw a fit
You go ahead and dance
I'll just sit

But if you think i'm wasting your time again
No, you're wasting mine
When you're playing for a prime-time dream
The c n b scene
Now i'm just split in your seam the i in your team

So i?m looking at the back of my hand again
I?m looking at the back of my hand again
To what end if i can?t even find a goddamn pen

andrew bird - anonanimal

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

I see a sea anemone
The enemy, see a sea anemone
And that'll be the end of me.
that'll be the end of me

While the vicious fish was caught unawares
in the tenderest of tendrils

Underneath her tender gills and
I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to a music halls
I will become this animal
Anomalous appendages
Anonanimal, anonanimal

Anonanimal, A non animal
Anonanimal, A non animal

Hold on just a second don't tell me this one you know
I know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
Hold on just a second don't tell me this one you know
I know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
I know this one

Underneath the stalactites
The troglobites lost their sight
Uh oh

The seemingly innocuous posthumous
though posthumous
They talk too much
they talk too much

See a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
That'll be the end of me
That'll be the end of me

Vicious fish was caught unawares
In the tend'rest tendrils
Underneath her tender gills and
I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to a music halls
I will become this animal

Anomalous appendages
Anonanimal
A non animal

andrew bird - armchairs

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 knows
the song that silence sings
and this was how it goes

these looms that weave apocryphal
they're hanging from a strand
these dark and empty rooms were full
of incandescent hands

an awkward pause
a fatal flaw
time it's a crooked bow
oh time's a crooked bow

in time you need to learn to love
the ebb just like the flow

grab hold of your bootstraps
and pull like hell,
'til gravity feels sorry for you,
and lets you go

as if you lack the proper chemicals to know
the way it felt the last time you let yourself
fall this low
time
oh time
it's a crooked bow
time's a crooked bow

fifty-five and three-eighths years later
at the bottom of this gigantic crater
an armchair calls to you
yeah, this armchair calls to you
and it says that
some day
we'll get back at them all
with epoxy and a pair of pliers
as ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
through the ragweed and barbed wire

you didn't write, you didn't call
it didn't cross your mind at all
and through the waves
the waves of a.m. squall
you couldn't feel a thing at all
your fifty-five and three-eighths tall
fifty-five and three-eighths tall

andrew bird - banking on a myth

There?s one guy i?d like to thank
He signs the checks and leaves them blank
He?s the one
He says you don?t have to walk a plank
The game is rigged, go fig your slide show tanked
And your flagship sank
So we?re taking all our myths to the bank
So just don?t forget who to thank
We?re taking our myths to the drinking a fifth to the we?re taking all our myths to the bank
If you could just do him this favor
Although it might involve child labor
Join his entourage, give him a foot massage
From star search to the philharmonic
He?ll get you there with hooked on phonics
He?s the one to know doesn?t matter if you blow ? no no
In fact it?s just the thing he thinks we?re needing
It?s a lukewarm liquid diet
They?re force feeding when the words we use have lost their bite
Now they hit you like an imaginary pillow fight but it?s all right
Cause you?re inside and you?re in tight deals in commodities of the abstract sort
Buys them in bulk but sells them short talent, genius, love even signs of affection
He floods the market there?s no price protection
And when his master plan is unfurled there stands a handsome bid on the weather systems of the world

andrew bird - being green

It's not easy bein' green
Having to spend each day
The color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer
Bein' red or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in
With so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
'Cause you're not standing out
Like flashy sparkles on the water
Or stars in the sky
But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or importan like a river or tall like a tree
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why
But, why wonder, why wonder?
I'm green and it'll do fine
It's beautiful and I think it's what I want to be

andrew bird - beware

Step right up take a good good look
At the latest pie that fate could cook
This is no phenom no supermarket guru
Just a revelation from me to you

So don?t believe a thing that you might hear
At least from the last 30 ? 40 years
Cause it wasn?t long ago just before the reign of Nero
We had no concept of zero

So beware children beware
The devil may care
Six little soldiers with stripes on their shoulders
Never with a thought to dare

So take aim children take aim
The drill sargeant sang
With ample perspiration ordered
Stop your respiration
And end the flow of oxygen to the brain
So wake up sleepyheads listen what I have to say
As you near your independence day
Just keep in mind, in time you?ll find so few
So few have your best interests in mind

So don?t believe a thing you might hear
At least from the 3 ? 4.000 years
Cause it wasn?t long ago just before the reign of Nero
We had no concept of zero

So beware children beware
The devil may care?
And maybe he?s the only one

andrew bird - candy shop

Well, piece by piece and nail by nail it?ll all come down some day 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 stone
Tit for tat and bone for bone
I?m goin? to set fire to your glamour

Well now rock that candy shop
Rock that candy shop
Rock that candy shop set it on fire
Run away and watch it burn
I?ve got to set fire to your glamour

Bah da dee?

Rock that candy shop
Rock that candy shop
Rock that candy shop set it on fire
Run away watch it burn
Smell the ashes in the air
Of this silly game we?re sure to tire

Well, 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 stone
Tit for tat and bone for bone
I?m goin? to set fire to your glamour
Yes to your glamour
Yes little mama, to your glamour
To your?.

Let it rock
Listen to me now let it rock, let it rock now

Rock that candy shop

andrew bird - case in point

I?m a breather mail receiver
Ad 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 standing on the corner
When the buildings they all fell
If you blink once you?re a goner
Everything just goes pell-mell
It?s a real hard sell My conceptual hell
Not even good for kindling no
When the buildings they all fell
I?m a breather mail receiver
Bottom feeder just getting by
And you know it?s all just part of the course
But you blame on some non-existent force
Oh yeah, of course you know you can?t ride the concept of the horse
But still I try
In a carton desert landscape
With a pair o ACME jetskates
Focused on my destination
I seem to have forgot my station
Now it?s time to face the nation
And I?m riding to meet you
On a brown gray speckled mare
But there?s something that unnerves me
Thinking no one really cares
And I?m jumping over fences
On this obstacle course But it seems I?m getting nowhere
On the concept of the horse

I?m a breather
Bottom feeder
How many liters must I imbibe.

andrew bird - cataracts

when our mouths are filled with univited tongues of others
and thew strays are pining for their unrequited mothers
milk that sours is promptly spat
light will fill our eyes like cats

and they shall enter from the back
with spears and scepters and squirming sacks
scribs and tangles between their ears
faceless scrumbled charcoal smears

through the coppice and the chaparral
the thickets thick with mold
the bracken and the brier
catchweed into the fold

when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others
and the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers
milk that sour is promptly spat
the light will fill our eyes like cats
cataracts

andrew bird - cock o the walk

C'mon baby move over I'm sitting here tonight, C'mon baby move over do the thing that's right
I can puff up my feathers, look real mean, be the old man that this here's scene.
I'm a struttin'-preenin'-bantam rooster looking for a fight,
Hold on there partner, my hat just ain't on right
Just a minute there govn'r while I set it right
It's a half turn left a half turn right, this old thing used to be bright white
I'm a struttin'-preenin'-bantam rooster looking for a fight.
I went on down to sports bar town to put mother hen in a fright
Took the 450 Addison to see pulaski at night
it's one for the money, two for the jack, three for the joe you've got to pay back
I'm a struttin'-preenin'-bantam rooster looking for a fight.
I think that might makes right.

andrew bird - core and ring

Listen you don?t know
You don?t know my mind
When what you thought was the core
Turned out to be the rind
If I need your advice
I will let you know
But listen until then
This is no call in show NO, NO, NO
Cause I tell you a story
Bout what happened today
Nothing profound Just something to say
And you write a description on your notebook pad
For five different ailments
Didn?t know I had
Listen you don?t know
You don?t know my mind
You thought the core was the ring

andrew bird - dark matter

When I was just a little boy
I threw away all of my action toys
I became obsessed with operation, oh

Hearts and minds and certain glands
You got to learn to keep a steady hand
And thus began my morbid fascination

Tore all the spines out from all of these self-help books
Made myself a gun that not only shoots
but looks real
Yeah it shoots through steel with rays of dark matter
Rays of dark matter

Just the thought of all this red and black
Thought of tongues that tasted bad
Fill you with the nausea-ausea-ausea-alation

Do you wonder where the self resides
Is it in the head or between your sides
And who would be the one who will decide
it's two locations

The noose is loosed around our necks made of DNA
And everyday it's growing tighter, no matter what you do or say
But you can shoot right through with rays of dark matter
Right before they kick out, they kick out the ladder
Rays of dark matter

When I was just a little boy
I threw away all of my action toys
I became obsessed with operation

Hearts and minds and certain glands
You got to learn to keep a steady hand
And thus began my morbid fascination

andrew bird