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Walking round Chicago,
I have smuggled you as cargo,
though you are far away unknowing.
By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase,
ironed the creases from my own remembering.
She said Bird, why?
We wound our way to Texas
where I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you,
but there it lived and died, a notion.
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
We came up on Ohio,
I have you chewed on like a biro.
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
We came to Minneapolis,
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
I buried you in a day of snowing.
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
I have smuggled you as cargo,
though you are far away unknowing.
By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase,
ironed the creases from my own remembering.
where I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you,
but there it lived and died, a notion.
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
I have you chewed on like a biro.
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
We came to Minneapolis,
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
I buried you in a day of snowing.
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
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Bird is actually the name of Lisa's best friend.
Well, friend and tour manager Una Molloy
Well, friend and tour manager Una Molloy
She is from Ireland, they call girls- birds. bird is the word for girl. Hence... Girl, why? (why are you still holding on to him?)
@Josiegirl thanks Josie!
@Josiegirl thanks Josie!
Little bird is her nickname from Damien, no? Or I just got that idea after listening her Little Bird song and that it was her song after breaking up with Damien.
:) Yeah, I should come to my senses, knowing they're not together anymore sigh
I get the feeling this song uses the metaphor of taking on a funeral urn on a 'road trip' and eventually burying the urn instead of spreading the ashes...