City Bird Lyrics
Hasn't anybody told you?
These city blocks can't hold you
Your place is in the sky, how can I show you?
Of the boundlessness of your freedom?
The sky is your blue kingdom
You neglect your wings like you don't need them
Maybe you understand that, city bird
i once heard some one give thsi song major shit, saying it worse the worst of montreal song.
that makes me really mad. beucase this song is amazing.
Such a beautiful person stuck in the monotony of office jobs. Our bodies and our brains provide so much freedom and creation, how can one deny that to themselves.
i can't believe no one has taken the song literally...
i can't believe no one has taken the song literally...
what if it is just about a tiny, hopeless bird that has grown up on the streets of a major city, learning not how to fly like it should but learning to toil on the barren cement wastelands that is New York or Toronto or Chicago?
what if it is just about a tiny, hopeless bird that has grown up on the streets of a major city, learning not how to fly like it should but learning to toil on the barren cement wastelands that is New York or Toronto or Chicago?
the narrator presses the bird to fly away, and escape to his vast kingdom in the sky, but he refuses, choosing instead to take crumbs from city dwellers
the narrator presses the bird to fly away, and escape to his vast kingdom in the sky, but he refuses, choosing instead to take crumbs from city dwellers
and then, the narrator's revelation at the end reveals that maybe the city bird can fly,...
and then, the narrator's revelation at the end reveals that maybe the city bird can fly, it just chooses not to because of the happiness it knows it brings to the innocent yet dreary city dwellers, spending day and night without seeing nature
i can't believe no one has taken the song literally...
what if it is just about a tiny, hopeless bird that has grown up on the streets of a major city, learning not how to fly like it should but learning to toil on the barren cement wastelands that is New York or Toronto or Chicago?
the narrator presses the bird to fly away, and escape to his vast kingdom in the sky, but he refuses, choosing instead to take crumbs from city dwellers
and then, the narrator's revelation at the end reveals that maybe the city bird can fly, it just chooses not to because of the happiness it knows it brings to the innocent yet dreary city dwellers, spending day and night without seeing nature
i'm with you entirely. i take this song completely literally.
i'm with you entirely. i take this song completely literally.
it really has the ability to provoke marvelous imagery, and it's beautiful.
it really has the ability to provoke marvelous imagery, and it's beautiful.
i always picture a little sparrow, pecking at his little bread bits in front of a man in business-casual-esque clothes sitting on a park bench. it's very serene.
i always picture a little sparrow, pecking at his little bread bits in front of a man in business-casual-esque clothes sitting on a park bench. it's very serene.
a bubbling creek in the backdrop. bright green grass. gorgeous summer day. skyline in the background. all that jazz.
a bubbling creek in the backdrop. bright green grass. gorgeous summer day. skyline in the background. all that jazz.
deff. just about a bird who doesn't realize that he can go wherever he wants, but just resricting himself to the city cuase he's an ignorant bird who doesn't know of anything else
deff. just about a bird who doesn't realize that he can go wherever he wants, but just resricting himself to the city cuase he's an ignorant bird who doesn't know of anything else
i think its about someone who spends their life living the same way every day and they have so much more potential its almost limitless
I think its about being confined and being afraid or not wanting to leave confinement. Its also about dependancy.
i like. reminds me of someone.
"you neglect your wings like you don't need them"
i think that one day this song will remind me of home, and make me want to come back to it. and i guess to me its a plea that the person from the song get out of this place and find where they belong, and also is a call for home, bc its such welcoming and open armed song i think
I think this song is amazing
Definitly my favorite OM song.
I think this writer see's a friend/lover with great potential and wants them to know how much they are capable of even though the friend doesn't see it because they've lived a pretty shelterd life so far and hasn't tried to expand/try new things. Also, I think the writer wants his friend to expand but at the same time he wants his friend to stay because it is someone who they love and need, "maybe these hands that feed you need you, Maybe you understand that, city bird." And maybe the reason the "city bird" has stuck around so long is because they know that they are needed where they are.