| Andrew Bird – Spare-Ohs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Yeah, I had 26 chickens and now I have zero chickens. I wasn’t able to keep the raccoons away from the chickens. And then for a year after that happened the chicken feathers are still around from the massacre. There’s just hundreds and hundreds of sparrows around my barn and they were taking the chicken feathers and stuffing my chimney with them to make nests. And then I would have a fire and I would see the smoke coming out and I would see little feathers reminding me of how I let down the chickens. And the whole line, “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.” The whole cycle of life thing was so apparent I was like, "Oh come on, this is just too obvious." Yeah, but then it also kind of talks about the implications of the cremations and the remains of animals and people floating and landing in our hair without us knowing it." --misterbird http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/16/andrew_bird_musician.php |
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| Andrew Bird – Heretics Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Am I the only one that hears "we're so adult about it"? People are always making this big thing about death, wasting their time philosophizing about something that nobody can ever understand. I hear "we're so adult about it", and I hear it as a sarcastic remark, poking fun at how juvenile and trite our perception of death is., and especially at the people who glorify it or pine for it. the state of being post-natal kind of comes off simply as a fancy way of saying the state of being alive; when you're finished with all your crying you'll still be alive. the whole tone sounds too light-hearted to be anything except poking fun, to me. |
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