Bird in a Basement Lyrics

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Cover art for Bird in a Basement lyrics by Paul Dempsey

An interview in Jmag of Paul Dempsey: "It's about words as a powerful means of escape and renewal. The somewhat whimsical idea that, if somebody gave you a small wad of cash and a plane ticket and toppped it off by saying the greatest thing you've ever heard in your entire life, then that would be all you'd need to go and live happily ever after. The 'grandmother's purse' is a childhood memory, the secret repository from which springs all things good and mysterious in the world. I thought that addressing someone as 'living thing' was funny, your name or species doesn't matter, just the fact that you're somehow miraculously alive."