Night Birds Lyrics

Lyric discussion by etherized 

Cover art for Night Birds lyrics by Ryan Adams

It's about drinking, drugging and chasin' them nightbirds baby. It's about living the night life and partying and waking up one day and realizing that nothing meaningful has been done with one's life. It wasn't supposed to end up this way.. all the hopes and dreams the person had in his life hadn't been met because he listened to the night birds. All the drinking did for him is turn him into an ugly person with nothing to show for it.

"Night Bird" is a term for someone who lives the nightlife.