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October Song Lyrics
Today my bird flew away
gone to find her big blue jay
Starlight before she took flight
I sung a lullaby of bird land everynight
sung for my Ava everynight
Ava was the morning, now she's gone
she's reborn like Sarah Vaughan
In the sanctuary she has found
birds surround her sweet soun
and Ava flies in paradise
With dread I woke in my bed
to shooting pains up in my head
Lovebird, my beautiful bird
Spoken 'til one day she couldn't be heard
she just stopped singing
Ava was the morning, now she's gone
she's reborn like Sarah Vaughan
In the sanctuary she has found
birds surround her sweet soun
and Ava flies in paradise
gone to find her big blue jay
Starlight before she took flight
I sung a lullaby of bird land everynight
sung for my Ava everynight
she's reborn like Sarah Vaughan
In the sanctuary she has found
birds surround her sweet soun
and Ava flies in paradise
to shooting pains up in my head
Lovebird, my beautiful bird
Spoken 'til one day she couldn't be heard
she just stopped singing
she's reborn like Sarah Vaughan
In the sanctuary she has found
birds surround her sweet soun
and Ava flies in paradise
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its obviously about her bird that maybe always sang on her window ledge flying away buit i think its also about amy herself spreading her winds and moving to somewhere better for herself. :)
"Lullaby of Birdland" is a song recorded by Sarah Vaughan
yeah this is about a bird she used to have who is now dead. she said so in one of her concerts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G2t6Uf3boI it's amazing but actually the chorus is a ripoff of "lullaby of birdland" by Fitzgerald
@madame it's not a "ripoff," how dare you? If you listened to any of Winehouse's stuff you'd know she has a lot of originality and talent to make her own songs which is in fact what she did for ALL of them. The chorus was that way on purpose, notice she mentions Sarah Vaughan who was a jazz artist, she sang "lullaby of bidland" too and her manager after her divorce with her husband rebirth as an artist in the 70s became her lover. This suggests that the song is about depression caused by a relationship that's over. Amy...
@madame it's not a "ripoff," how dare you? If you listened to any of Winehouse's stuff you'd know she has a lot of originality and talent to make her own songs which is in fact what she did for ALL of them. The chorus was that way on purpose, notice she mentions Sarah Vaughan who was a jazz artist, she sang "lullaby of bidland" too and her manager after her divorce with her husband rebirth as an artist in the 70s became her lover. This suggests that the song is about depression caused by a relationship that's over. Amy must have managed to get over her sadness and get back on her feet but not without losing a part of herself: "Ava was the morning now she's gone, she's reborn like Sarah Vaughan."
It's kinda weird that the canary is named Ava, thats more of a girls name, and the only canaries that sing are the male ones. I have one and we sing to eachother all day (:
She sang it was a blue jay, wasn't it?
She sang it was a blue jay, wasn't it?
today a bird did fly away and i pray she found that blue jay R.I.P Amy.
ummm i dont think its "obviously about a bird" at all. i think the bird or 'ava' is more likely a refrence to someone close to her.
It is about a bird, actually.
I read an interview with Amy, and she said the song was about a canary she used to own, called Ava, and they sang to each other every night, just like the song says.
@CaitlinLikeWhoa lol, that's a metaphor, obviously.
@CaitlinLikeWhoa lol, that's a metaphor, obviously.
But why is the song titled "October Song"?
amy was the morning, now she's gone she's reborn like, sarah vaughan in the sanctuary she has found birds surround, her sweet sound <3
I was listening/singing to this song in the car today and my voice just started to shake and I started to cry. I know it's stupid but I felt like I knew her. She was even more fucked up than me but in a lot of the same ways. Interesting that it's about her pet canary. I was wondering because it occurred to me that it sounded like it was about her now, even though that's obviously not what she intended when she wrote it.
Spoken 'til one day she couldn't be heard she just stopped singing Ava was the morning, now she's gone...
:'(
cant agree more on ur point.This song is a perfect allegory of Amy herself...
cant agree more on ur point.This song is a perfect allegory of Amy herself...