
Date of issue: 18.04.2009
Song language: English
Passenger Pigeons |
Ever since you moved out |
I’ve been living in the park |
I’d rather talk to the wind |
Than an empty apartment |
And I wish I could forget |
How a billion birds flew in |
My hollow, dying heart |
The first time I touched your arm |
Once there were a billion passenger pigeons |
So many flew by they darkened the sky |
But they were clubbed and shot, netted, gassed and burned |
Until there was nothing left but vines of empty nests |
I can’t believe how easily |
A billion birds can disappear |
The park is empty now |
It’s so cold out |
And all the paddle boats |
Are covered up with snow |
Once again it’s dark |
The electric lights snap on |
But I’m still sitting here |
Drinking frozen beer |
And throwing potato chips |
Into the white snowdrifts |
Just in case a bird decides |
To fly through hinter night |
I can’t believe how easily |
A billion birds can disappear |
Oh, I can’t believe how easily |
A billion birds can disappear |
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Far from Any Road | 2009 |
The Bottomless Hole | 2009 |
Gold | 2016 |
The Forgotten Lake | 2009 |
If the World Should End in Fire | 2009 |
Fallen Peaches | 2009 |
Gail with the Golden Hair | 2009 |
24-Hour Store | 2009 |
A Shadow Underneath | 2009 |
Dry Bones | 2009 |
So Much Wine | 2009 |
The Song of a Hundred Toads | 2009 |
Back In My Day | 2016 |
Sleepy | 2009 |
Whitehaven | 2009 |
If the World Should End in Ice | 2009 |
The Silver Light | 2016 |
Gentlemen | 2016 |
Tiny Tina | 2016 |
The Red Door | 2016 |