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AVEM
01:14
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A V E M motherfucking bird of prey
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Rat Race
02:40
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I stuck another rock into the water but the food is just out of reach, these fucking machines
I still remember when i got that little morsel after using that stick on those other things
Maybe this other rock will work
the fuck is going on the food’s in the same place
I’ll put another one on top of the first rock i used
By god i’m such a fucking genius it’s right there for taking
Can’t help but feel like an experiment
This life i’m forced to live
Isn’t my first choice i’ll make the best of it
This cage feels smaller every single day
Hear talk about the rat race i guess this is it my life’s stolen away
Remember berries in the trees
Chewing on leaves to get those little grubs to eat
The wind feels a lot like me
Pulled each direction never in a rush, exactly where it needs
I guess this new life ain’t bad
Put in the work and get rewarded just enough to not be sad
It’s all okay if i don’t think
Put my head down and dance just like a monkey wanting to be free
You stole my life from me
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Let's Go Watching
01:46
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Not much I’d rather do
Spend days watching with you
Our shit’s all in it’s place
Let’s find nature’s embrace
Let’s go watching
Let’s go watching
Not much I’d rather do
Spend days watching with you
Our shit’s all in it’s place
Let’s find nature’s embrace
Let’s go watching
Let’s go watching
Until we leave our heads
Until we wind up dead, let’s go watching
Not much I’d rather do
Spend days watching with you
Our shit’s all in it’s place
Let’s find nature’s embrace
Let’s go watching
Let’s go watching
Let’s go watching
Let’s go watching
Until we leave our heads
Until we wind up dead, lets go watching
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Stranded the sky is turning grey
The blowing wind it chills me to the bone
Depressing it rains another day
Don't wanna die so far away from home
I've got really shitty luck
Mother nature really sucks
I'm not gonna die now
Dig deep l will survive now
Mother nature really sucks
Grounded I can no longer fly
The ice crystals they chill me to the bone
Accepting this twisted cruel fate
I'm gonna die so far away from home
Never knew how this would end
Should have been a better friend
Set off my own though
Tried to lead by example
Should have listened, now I'm dead
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Keep You Safe
02:30
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There won’t be fighting
There won’t be pain
There won’t be stress when I’m around
You won’t go hungry
You won’t be scared
You’ll have no problems in the world
I’ll keep you safe
My little egg
Safe underneath
My brooding legs
You’ll be prepared
To spread your wings
And make a change
You have my word
We’ll roam the planet
We’ll fly away
We’ll leave the oceans in our wake
You’ll taste a snapper
You’ll round the cape
The world will be your great escape
I’ll keep you safe
My little egg
Safe underneath
My brooding legs
You’ll be prepared
To spread your wings
And make a change
You have my word
There’s a hundred million dangers in the world ready to kill you but I’ll stop them
Every one
I am ready and am willing to eliminate those dangers and I'll peck them til they’re done
I’ll keep you safe
My little egg
Safe underneath
My brooding legs
You’ll be prepared
To spread your wings
And make a change
You have my word
I’ll keep you safe
My little egg
I’ll keep you safe
I’ll keep you safe
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Red Winged Blackbird
00:26
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Red winged blackbirds are called red winged blackbirds cause they have red wings
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No, Homo!
02:27
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We never paid attention to the norms of society
We like to fuck, don't mean we have to breed
When getting offs the game we're always down to play
It's not about a nuclear family
Cause getting laid is fun and we will fuck all night and day
Borrow the homo from homo sapiens
You call it gay we call it getting laid
If you think queer is anti science then you're wrong and we don't give a shit if you think that we're not okay, we're so okay
We know you're wrong
Our species only mates for life
I'll fuck my man and he'll fuck me all day and night
We've got this move you don’t want to miss
The ever sensual cloacal kiss
Your stupid human arguments we don't understand
Because I am a man
and I love my man
Our kind is everywhere and our breeding friends don't fucking care
Borrow the homo from homo sapiens
You call it gay we call it getting laid
You say that queer is anti science but you're wrong and we don't give a shit if you think we're not okay, we're so okay, we're gay okay
We know you're wrong
We know you're wrong
Fuck you you're wrong
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First time I saw it was a couple weeks before it was time to go
Looked like a giant yellow moose running easily through the snow
Then these two strange things got out
They don't have wings or if they do I couldn't tell
The weirdest noise came from their mouths, songs like a condo, apartment, and mall
They pointed at some trees, like the one where the Murphys had their first home
Little did I know the ends already here
By the time I got back my world was forever changed
The Murphys trees were gone and there were a lot of yellow moose
Where I used to sing in the morning now is just a pile of dirt
these weird things are all hanging out with yellow moose they're singing apartment condo and mall
It isn’t safe for me or my family here anymore
Apartment condo and mall
I don't know what to do, where else can we go
This field and creek and forest is all I've ever known
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Happy Hummingbird
00:39
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Just found the place for your new perfect home
Safe from the rain tucked in the corner of that stained glass window
Collect some grass from that abandoned field
I hope the robins ok with how close our nests will be
Feels like I’ve done this a few hundred times
Sit there for hours making sure you’re alive
You'll grow up strong and loud, noble and free
And find your own perfect spot just like me
One of these days you'll end up just like me
The day is here as you break through your egg
No time to celebrate I’ve gotta go make sure you get fed
Days turn to nights I never get to sleep
It’s always worth it every time I hear that little peep
Feels like I’ve done this a few hundred times
Go back and forth with food to keep you alive (keep you alive)
You’ll grow up strong and loud, noble and free (whoa)
And find your own perfect spot just like me
It’s time for you to go and fly the nest
I’ll give you one last meal and sigh as you snuggle in my breast
After you’re gone I won’t know what to do
maybe I’ll take a trip to Kalamazoo
I’ve always wondered if it's all the same
For other birds or those weird creatures with the big furry tails
Raising your young is not a simple feat
Oh my dear son it makes your whole life complete
One of these days you'll end up just like me
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It’s such a mess
I don’t know how you can live like this
It’s such a mess
I don’t know how you can live like this
There’s garbage all over the floor
The grass is gone, concrete jungle
The water’s brown it isn’t blue
There’s barely space for me and you
The sky is bright both day and night
The trees are dead, so are the mice
Cars everywhere, there is no food
Nowhere to live, you’re illegal
It’s such a mes
I don’t know how you can live like this
It’s such a mess
I don’t know how you can live like this
It’s such a mess
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Snowy Owl
02:26
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You look right at me but you’ll just be looking through me
I blend right into boughs and trunks and everything around me
It’s safe to look for food you think oh what a fallacy
Fatal mistake it’s yours to make and oh it benefits me
You think there’s nothing watching you
Crossing that field you little shrew
There’s nothing really you can do
You’ll never see me coming
You’ll never see me
You’ll never hear me coming
Twas oh so fast, whisked away in my firm grasp
Life flashes in front of your eyes before you even gasp
Who would have thought that old oak tree harbored your end of days
Don’t waste your time thrashing about accept cold death’s embrace
You thought there’s nothing watching you
The other mice they thought that too
Your skeleton will join the crew
You’ll never see me coming
You’ll never see me
You’ll never hear me coming
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oh nigel no mate nigel fell in love with a concrete statue
you were lonely oh so lonely now your heart isn't feeling so blue
Mana island seemed like heaven when that cold hearted girl came around
oh nigel silly nigel no mates nigel
You stayed a while attracted by your concrete mate
you built a nest and did your best but only norman dropped by
we weeded, we painted, we sprayed guano around
three newbies arrived, a christmas surprise
but suddenly you are gone
oh nigel no mates nigel won the hearts of all humans around
dedication perseverance alongside you these virtues are found
touched the lives of oh so many and your struggles did not go in vain
gannets live on mana island once again
oh nigel no mates nigel silly nigel
oh nigel no mate nigel fell in love with a concrete statue
you were lonely oh so lonely now your heart isn't feeling so blue
touched the lives of oh so many and your struggles did not go in vain
gannets live on mana island once again
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14. |
Really Gotta Go
01:52
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Time for me to go get out of here
Like the dodo i'll go disappear
Step aside you won’t get in my way
So much food a thousand miles away
Just like a river flows
I really gotta go
Now i’m here time to stuff my face
There’s so much food all over the place
Holy shit it’s my good friend joe
He flew in from way down below
Just like a river flows
A thousand miles away from home
When you really gotta go
Then you really gotta go
I really gotta go
When you really gotta go
you really gotta go
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As the wind whispers through the grasp of the last dewy boughs, the prey becomes visible in the moonlight. How wrong it seemed to be free, untethered to the safety of the shadows, clear as doom itself.
Get back, I’m flying over you
Cause that’s my calling card
That fleeting moment of uncertainty grazed my back, as wing feathers tensed in anticipation of glory. Within a blink I was off, gullet agape and claws outstretched, prepared for the final strike.
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Martian Wren
02:28
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went for a walk with my binoculars
hope to see a piper or a meadowlark
when i saw it standing there looking at me
that fucking martian wren from mars is always haunting me
don't you see it standing over there
flew up and shit right in my hair
it wants inside my derriere
oh why oh why
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Rotten Egg
03:10
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i think it's time to break free
break out through the membrane
but it stinks
what's up with my mommy
why's she being shitty
just to me
i thought that as a child i'd lead a perfect life
you'd puke food in my mouth all day and every night
we'd swoop through the trees, learn to sing our perfect song
i was wrong
doesn't matter if you're faberge, cadbury, or in decay
doesn't matter what you came from, only who you are
all you've gotta do is sing, migrate and become the king
of your flock so you can lead them home to start it again
all these other birdlings
with their opportunities
why not me
i will try the hardest
he who flies the farthest
you will see
there was a time when i was learning how to fly
our parents wouldn't help i can't figure out why
never give up and you will surely reach the sky
as did i
doesn't matter if you're faberge, cadbury, or in decay
doesn't matter what you came from, only who you are
all you've gotta do is sing, migrate and become the king
of your flock so you can lead them home to start it again
doesn't matter if you're faberge, cadbury, or in decay
doesn't matter what you came from, only who you are
all you've gotta do is sing, migrate and become the king
of your flock so you can lead them home to start it again
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Blue Jay
01:34
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blue jay is the bluest bird oh yeah oh yeah
cardinal is the reddest bird oh yeah oh yeah
but the motherfucking falcon is the coolest bird because it flies real fast
fuck the stupid starling right in it's spangled ass
robins have the biggest tits oh yeah oh yeah
chickens have even bigger tits oh yeah oh yeah
but the motherfucking swallow is the coolest bird
because it flies real fast
fuck the stupid starling right in it's spangled ass
shithawks are really awesome birds oh yeah oh yeah
turkeys are fuckin silly birds oh yeah oh yeah
but the motherfucking swallow is the coolest bird
because it flies real fast
fuck the stupid starling right in it's spangled ass
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Sing Every Day
04:01
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Doesn't matter if the sun's out
Doesn't matter if it's raining
Doesn't matter if my flock is headed south I'll still be singing
Doesn't matter if the sun's out
Doesn't matter if it's hailing
Doesn't matter if a cat ate my true love I'll still be singing
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