Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Album: The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
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  • I was a quick wet boy
    Diving too deep for coins
    All of your straight light eyes
    Wide on my plastic toys

    Then when the cops closed the fair
    I cut my long baby hair
    Stole me a dog eared map
    And called for you everywhere

    Have I found you?
    Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
    Or lost you?
    American mouth
    Big bill looming

    Now I'm a fat house cat
    Cursing my sore blunt tongue
    Watching the warm poison rats
    Curl through the wide fence cracks

    Pissing on magazine photos
    Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
    Blood of Christ mountain stream

    Have I found you?
    Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding
    Or lost you?
    American mouth
    Big bill, stuck going down Writer/s: SAMUEL ERVIN BEAM
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Dee from PaThis would be the most popular wedding song if......if.....the writers would only write "love song lyrics" to go with the music!
    They would make a TON OF MONEY off a version with love song lyrics...
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