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After The Blackbird Sings Lyrics
I'm finding it hard,
Just to keep up with someone
Who's hangin' onto nothin'
Only to lose what's never mine.
And I'm finding it hard
Just to keep up with something
That's hangin' on to nothin'
To keep all these chains tied up and in line, in line.
Pretty Angel,
She bites the hands of the lion,
Ties it up with ribbon,
Watches as hound dogs
Bang on her drums, drums.
It's so, it's so easy for you to love nobody,
It's so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.
I seen this girl
She had her hands full of lightning,
She rolled it down to me,
A Lolita smile,
With a thorn in her eyes.
Now she, she spun the world,
Up on the edge of a pearl,
A carnivals girl,
Up on a ferris wheel forever, forever.
It's so easy for you to love nobody,
It's so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore,
Just don't try anymore.
Now she, she howled like an owl
Only to fall like a sparrow
And lay beside the scarecrow
But after the Blackbird sings
Is the song, the song.
It's just so easy,
It's just so easy for you to love nobody,
It's just so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.
Just to keep up with someone
Who's hangin' onto nothin'
Only to lose what's never mine.
Just to keep up with something
That's hangin' on to nothin'
To keep all these chains tied up and in line, in line.
She bites the hands of the lion,
Ties it up with ribbon,
Watches as hound dogs
Bang on her drums, drums.
It's so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.
She had her hands full of lightning,
She rolled it down to me,
A Lolita smile,
With a thorn in her eyes.
Up on the edge of a pearl,
A carnivals girl,
Up on a ferris wheel forever, forever.
It's so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore,
Just don't try anymore.
Only to fall like a sparrow
And lay beside the scarecrow
But after the Blackbird sings
Is the song, the song.
It's just so easy for you to love nobody,
It's just so easy for you, 'cause you're not tryin' anymore.
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Submitted by
3ssence On Jun 23, 2001
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wow this song is amazing. i feel special being the first commenter. i think its about a girl (could even be a guy) who wanted to love and did at first but every time she tried it messed up and she was broken. so now its like an easy game to her she knows how to fake love people because thats the only love she ever found. and she just lets the rest of the world fall for her fakness and be happy at her carnival (love affair)and they wouldnt realize that for her its just a game now. and i dont know how the black bird ties in but im thinking that it means as soon as she was broken the balck bird sang (and a black bird signifies or is a death omen) and she dies inside and thats how her carnival started