The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney
What remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect
But the yoke isn't easy, in fact it's a drag
Acid blown to cornfields and mountains of rice
All over the suburbs, across the great lawns
And they're crop dusting gardens all over this town

But nobody cares when it gets in their hair
It gets in their lungs as it floats through the air
It gets in the food that they buy and prepare
But nobody cares when it gets in their hair

Across the great chasms and the schisms and the sudden aneurysms
Where the black ink will drip across the crespice of your eyes
And your teeth are worth more than you can spare
Oh, don't tell me that it just isn't fair
Don't speak about the cycles of life
'Cause your thoughts are so soft
I could cut 'em with a spork or a bride's knife

And the wine made our minds too loose
A reckless choice of words
And you tell me that I'm too abstruse
I just thought I was a kind of bird
I swear I just stood there not saying a word
Not saying a word, not saying a word


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Spare-Ohs Lyrics as written by Andrew Wegman Bird

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    General Comment

    Is it just too obvious, or why has no one commented on the pun of something "getting in your hair" as an idiom for an annoyance? As JasonBunting points out elsewhere in the lyrics to "This Is Not A Song About A Train," this song contains elements of those lyrics - the idea of dead bodies as smoke getting into things, and even a call to the EPA. But here the expression is both literal and metaphorical, taken a little further. I like the way that reinforces the environmental slippery slope idea, how an annoyance grows more serious through inattention.

    Quisquillosoon May 02, 2007   Link

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