Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Bird Balloons lyrics

rate me

I'm a ghost and you all know it.

I'm singing songs and I ain't slowing.

It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it

I picked the pieces up and put them in my pocket.

And I ain't gonna try to win your heart this time

I've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiser

I'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired.

Oh oh ohh

Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood

This is my loss of limb, my loss of love

Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my blood

This is my loss of limb, my loss of love

It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs

almost escaping your skin

To fly south, south until the springtime.

Your hips stood out like confidence,

you were naked

as a newborn in the snow

but you wanted it so..

That's precisely how you wanted it

And now your love is writing words on the wall

with the meat of a nectarine

That she picked earlier that morning in the orchard

And you are on the street, a chest of drawers free

While the skeleton parade marches past you

Carrying bird balloons

They fly backwards and forwards

The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary

It's as if leprosy, it landed on the moon

And it cast a filthy glow in the world and in my room

So how about I play the harp and you play that piano

pull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrows

My limbs, my love are lost on you

My limbs, my love belong to you.

I remember that night in the woods

on the human balance beam

Made of a long wooden board

with a barrel underneath

We laid on either end

and we couldn't quite knack it

after many attempts

And minutes of silence

Until we did

And our breath caught

and we looked up

and the stars, they were so still

and the stars, they were so still

And both our hearts, they were revealed

Our hearts, they were revealed

And you were my friend

You were my friend

You were my friend

This is my loss of love, my loss of limb

You were my friend

This is my loss of love, my loss of limb

You were my friend

You were my friend, you friend

(This is my loss of love, my loss of limb

You were my friend)

You were my friend, you were my friend.

And now

I'm a ghost and you all know it

I'm singing songs and I ain't stopping

My hair grew long so I fucking cut it

and when you looked away

I snuck those trimmings in your locket

Ha ha ha ha ha.