The Naming Of Things Andrew Bird

Met the girl I, I love in a town way down in Dixie Beneath the stars up above She was the sweetest girl I ever did see So I held her in my arms and told her of her many charms I kissed her while the guitars

The Naming Of Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber

The naming of cats is a difficult matter It isn’t just one of your holiday games You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you a cat must have three different names First of all there

Weather Systems Andrew Bird

quiet quiet down she said speaking to the back of his head on the edge of her bed i can see your blood flow your cells grow hold still a while don`t spill the wine i can see it all from here i

Bein' Green Andrew Bird

It's not easy bein' green Having to spend each day the color of the leaves When you could be something so much nicer Like red or yellow Aquamarine or something more colorful like that It's not easy bein

Tenuousness Andrew Bird

Tenuous at best was all he had to say When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans Greek Cypriots and and harbor-sorts who hang around in

Headsoak Andrew Bird

I was walking With my feet A disposition Fell over me The armory wall was bleeding The restless child was reading I was swimming Could hardly stand The swimming hour was at hand The fishes they were feeding

Not A Robot, But A Ghost Andrew Bird

I run the numbers through the floor Here's how it goes I crack the codes I crack the codes That end the war The Hour I pushed a note under your door Here's how it goes Things come to blows But

MX Missiles Andrew Bird

Well together we stand divided we fall Come on now people let's all get on the ball Let's work together Come on, come one, let's work together Here here now because together we will stand Every boy, every

Tables and Chairs Andrew Bird

Stop stop going around With the girl that I love She's already taken She's all sewn up It'll only end in tears She'll only break your heart If my fist doesn't get you Before she tears you apart You better

The Naming Of Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber(로이드 웨버)

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn\'t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I\'m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.

Measuring Cups Andrew Bird

Baby, I go too fast, too far Let's get it straight now, the way things are I'm not the white knight in your fantasy But I could be your wildest dream I might ride with the wind, I might follow the sun

Fiery Crash Andrew Bird

Two stars are missing me Jet waves are driving me Things in nicer motions We are hauling to space G force is twisting the faith with superstition A fatal premonition You know you've got to envision The

The Trees Were Mistaken Andrew Bird

kind of a story. this is a story man, about the serifs and ciphers that the scholars deciphered translations of sanskrit just as my handwritten story. this is a story where the singers begin to appear

A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left Andrew Bird

Over prescribed under the mister we had survived to turn on the history channel and ask our esteemed panel why are we alive and here's how they replied you're what happens when two substances collide

Sweetbreads Andrew Bird

cause it's a question for the centuries from communion to mad cow disease but is it worthy of a song - all life's location?

First Song Andrew Bird

Then it was dusk in Illinois a small boy After an afternoon of carting dung hung On a rail fence, a sapped thing So weary to crying Dark was growing tall He began to hear the pond frogs all calling

Darkmatter Andrew Bird

fascination Tore the spines from out of all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks so real Yeah, it shoots through steel with rays of darkmatter Rays of darkmatter Do

Scythian Empires Andrew Bird

Five day forecast bring black tall rains and hellfire While handpicked tenderness kid gloves tear at the inseam Their Halliburton Attach？？

Anonanimal Andrew Bird

See a sea anemone, the enemy see a sea anemone And that'll be the end of me While the vicious fish was caught unawares In the tenderest of tendrils See a sea anemone, the enemy see a sea anemone And

Effigy Andrew Bird

If you come to find me affable Build a replica for me Would the idea to you be laughable Of a pale facsimile? So will you come to burn an effigy?

Spare-Ohs Andrew Bird

The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney With remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect But the yolk isn't easy in fact it's a drag As they're blowin' through cornfields

Natural Disaster Andrew Bird

Look upon the field of snow and find the desert sea Under the ice the springs will flow to release Fecundates like a natural disaster, disaster From the first drop of water to the rage of Niagara Collapse

Armchairs Andrew Bird

I dreamed you were a cosmonaut Of the space between our chairs And I was a cartographer Of the tangles in your hair I sang the song that silence brings It's the one that everybody knows, everybody knows

Sovay Andrew Bird

I was getting readyo be ahreat I was getting set for my Accidental suicide The kind where no one dies no one looks too surprised ?

Oh No Andrew Bird

In the salsify mains of what was thought but unsaid All the calcified arithmetists were doing the math It would take a calculated blow to the head To light the eyes of all the harmless sociopaths Oh

The Privateers Andrew Bird

Don't sell me anything Your one time offer so uncalled for, you call it piece of mind 'Cause I can see your house from here Now leaves have fallen, dear I can see you're just a little privateer As

Don't Be Scared Andrew Bird

whenever paul thinks of rain, swallows fall in a wave and tap on his window with their beaks whenever paul thinks of snow, soft winds blow round his head and his phone rings just once late at

Sic Of Elephants Andrew Bird

You were right There was never reason to worry Money made your eyesight all blurry Making lists of pacifists Recalcitrant poses Can't you see how dangerous The one you chose is?

Left Handed Kisses Andrew Bird

I don't believe everything happens for a reason To us romantics out here, that amounts to high treason I don't go in for your star-crossed lovers In the heart of a skeptic There's a question that still

Masterswarm Andrew Bird

Come what may, lay your eggs where it's warm We come here to swarm Come by sea, swarm like smoke in the dawn We were the young, we were the swarm Radiolarians, midges and moths cut from a cloth We

Imitosis Andrew Bird

His keeping busier as bitter storms His imaginations and his palindromes It was anything but hear the voice Anything but hear the voice It was anything but hear the voice That says that we're all basically

Simple X Andrew Bird

Some people wake up on Monday mornings Barring maelstroms and red flare warnings With no explosions and no surprises Perform a series of exercises Hold your fire Take your place around an open fire Before

Banking On A Myth Andrew Bird

theres a guy Id like to thank he signs the checks and leaves them blank hes the one he says you dont have to walk a plank the game is rigged, go fig your slide show tanked, and your flagship sank

Cataracts Andrew Bird

And when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers Milk that sours is promptly spat, light will fill our eyes like cats And they shall

Skin is，My Andrew Bird

My skin is White as parchment Drier than a downtown office building Where the air is tight There's time spent Resting on her bones Waiting for the telephone to ring Ba-ring ba-ring ba-ring . . .

Skin Andrew Bird

my skin is white as parchment drier than a downtown office building where the air is tight there's time spent resting on her bones waiting for the telephone to ring ba-ring ba-ring ba-ring . . . bo-ring

Fitz And The Dizzyspells Andrew Bird

Comes and goes Like in fits and dizzy spells Like the weather And it blows Like it knows what's going wrong Like it's clever Has a name but the name goes unspoken Weather wanes Were all twisted

Heretics Andrew Bird

Born host to a tongue so sing a song about it Held a breath for too long till we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong, then you can blame us for it Turn the clamp on our thumbs so we're down

Opposite Day Andrew Bird

I got home this morning with the sun right in my eyes And there was no warning as it took me by surprise as it Hit me like an Act of God, causing my alarm That I had now become a cephalopod I still

Way Out West Andrew Bird

Elder Green is dead and gone Lost his way going to town Don't know who he is or what he's done But it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue Yeah it sure sounds sweet rolling off the tongue If I was

Skin Is, My Andrew Bird

add a rhyme, to make it sound complete I go into a state of mind that I very seldom enter To put it on a black plate of wax with a hole in the center Understand, I'm not the greatest Above the Law is

The Water Jet Cilice Andrew Bird

I knew this one girl Drowned in her own curls Candy colored swirls That never seemed to end I could not comprehend Half what she said to me So casually All our tender ears would bend Tales of ritual self-torture

Lull Andrew Bird

being alone it can be quite romantic like jacques cousteau underneath the atlantic a fantastic voyage to parts unknown going to depths where the sun`s never shone and i fascinate myself when i`m alone

Action / Adventure Andrew Bird

now if you think im wasting your time again im wasting your time when you pick me up in duty free thats when i thought id be the cross in your t or must see tv but if you think im wasting your time again

Oh Sister Andrew Bird

Our Father would not like the way that you act And you must realize the danger. Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you And one deserving of affection?

Action／Adventure Andrew Bird

now if you think i`m wasting your time again i`m wasting your time when you pick me up in duty free that`s when i thought i`d be the cross in your t or must see tv but if you think i`m wasting your

Nomenclature Andrew Bird

Just think of the lives you could swap with your own While you're selling your coats, you're sewing your own You know it's not the easy way Sometimes we've got to pay to play With finger paints and

Richmond Woman Andrew Bird

Give her a red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes A new bob haircut and a shot of good booze her/(hurry?)

Happy Day Andrew Bird

Some day Some happy day Some day I'll find I live before I die some day Oh Lord, some day Some day Some happy day Some day I'll find The one with eyes that say those words I cannot find I hope I live before

Masterfade Andrew Bird

his dreams He's perfect To satisfy my scheme He doesn't know my name I don't recall his name And though it's true My flesh is new Believe me, dear My mind is clear He's smiling at me He thinks he's won the