Andrew Bird - Spare-Ohs lyrics

rate me

The finches and sparrows they nest

Watch only what remains of small flowers

birds that you failed to protect

But the joke isn’t easy, in fact it’s a drag

has it blown to cornfields

and mountains of rice

All over the suburbs, across the great lawns

And cropped us in gardens all over this town

But nobody cares when it gets in their hair

It gets in their lungs as it floats through the air

It gets in the food that they buy and prepare

But nobody cares when it gets in their hair

Across the great cows and the schisms

and the sudden man-aneurysms where the black ink will drip

across the crosspiece of your eye

And your teeth are worth more than you can spare

Oh don’t tell me that it just isn’t fair

Don’t speak about the cycles of life

‘Cause your thoughts are so soft

I could cover ‘em with this parka of rhymes

And the wine made our minds too loose

Such a reckless choice of words

And you tell me that I’m too abstruse

I just thought I was a kind of bird

I just stood there not saying a word

Not saying a word