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Forks and Knives (La Fete) Lyrics
Uptown the streets in a calming way
And outside is warm as a bed with a maid
And I find it's all the waves and ways
That makes the days go on this way
I heard the sad sound of words
Spoken from the beak of a wise old bird
Uptown where the streets are kept afloat
A girl never leaves me alone
He means well saying, "I've got stories
Of wine superb, and of course my childhood.
Forks and knives and then a hospital bed
Where I turned my life over and over again."
And outside is warm as a bed with a maid
And I find it's all the waves and ways
That makes the days go on this way
Spoken from the beak of a wise old bird
Uptown where the streets are kept afloat
A girl never leaves me alone
Of wine superb, and of course my childhood.
Forks and knives and then a hospital bed
Where I turned my life over and over again."
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my favourite song on "the flying club cup" LP.
I think it's most likely "spoken from a beak of a wise old bird".
I hear is ever so slightly different:
Uptown, the street's in a calming way And outside is warm as a bed with a maid And I find it's all waves and rays That makes the days go on this way
Amazing song, whatever it is that he's saying ;)
Friends and I are going to learn the lyrics and sing/yell it during lunch
Oh, if Beirut songs weren't so hard to understand what Zach is saying it would be boring <3
I had always thought of it as being "warm as a bed with a mate," as well. Thanks for typing this up!
I think it goes
"and outside is as warm as a bed with a maiden."
yeah?
I agree, I think it is:
Uptown, the street's in a calming way And outside is warm as a bed with a maiden I find it's all our waves and raves (don't know if it says "raves" really though)
the live video of this song by la blogotheque made me cry like a little baby...
Once I read somewhere that Zach got that injury when he fell of a bridge into a dry riverbed at the age of 14.I don`t know but this song always reminds me of this. "our ground never leaves me alone" Imagin you fall of the bridge and you go up to the sky instead of falling down onto hard riverbed stones and break your arm. "and a hospital bed where I turned my life over and over again"...