| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| maybe what ever that has used to lure him, he has thrown them to God. | |
| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| maybe its just as you mean. She stayed by his side losing her wings (freedom) and all. He was questioning whether he is the one who has caused her to be that way. He got her but has he, if she was no longer who she is. | |
| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Big pill stuck going down --> he didn't have the answer yet. Then the thoughts follow on and on and on. Dreaming. Has he been better or has he been worse? He didn't know at the time of writing the song. The guy studies art. | |
| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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After listening. I think it's the process of somebody growing up, headstrong, , make mistakes and getting lost. Trying to find him/herself. He must be thinking back of how things were for him in the past. "I was a quick wit (or wet) boy diving too deep for coins" He is quick witted or as to relate with diving, wet in the lyric does make sense. Instead of diving into waters, he is diving deep into coins. He is always thinking about earning money with no second thoughts and no holding back. "All of your street light eyes Wide on my plastic toys" This part, he was doing something for the money. The place has their street light (like eyes) all on what he was having at the time. Maybe selling things illegally. Drugs, toys or whatever things. "Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair" The cops found out and he got caught. The hair was cut maybe for prison purposes or after getting out of it. "Stole me a dog-eared map And called for you everywhere" He tried to find this someone (himself or someone he love and lost in the process) using the dog-eared map (literally). Calling out to (himself or someone he love or lost). "Have I found you? Flightless bird, jealous, weeping Or lost you? American mouth Big pill looming" He was asking himself, has he found what he was looking for yet? Flightless bird (metaphor for a person without freedom) jealous (looking at others for what he never had) weeping (sad for himself even depressed). or he has already lost (himself or someone else) It feels like he is being sick mentally/physically from bad ordeals in the past maybe. That is why the big pill. When you are lost at thoughts, the pills may looked intimidating. Maybe he didn't want to have them. If it's a drug he took for a solution to his problem, then it make sense for the second verse below. "Now I’m a fat house cat nursing my sore blunt tongue Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks Pissing on magazine photos those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean Blood of Christ mountain stream" After the pill, he imagine or think himself as the cat, nursing his tongue like all cats do. Watching the rats or pissing on magazine (like a random cat will do). The last sentence maybe has something to do with fish (something to do with cats) in the river or waterfall. Something that he used to do in the past (fishing, reminisce). or something to do with God. "Have I found you? Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding Or lost you? American mouth Big pill stuck going down" He choke on the big pill. Meaning he has taken it or he didn't want to. Maybe there is no saving for himself. or He could have imagine everything and the pill was what could have save him from the thoughts but he has not taken it. The lyrics were nicely written but do hope the writers could share what he was writing. |
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