Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Bird Balloons Lyrics
I'm a ghost and you all know itI'm singing songs and I ain't slowingIt was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped itI picked the pieces up and put them in my pocketAnd I ain't gonna try and win your heart this timeI've had space to think and I think that I've grown a little wiserI'm looking for a new muse, you have only made me tired.Call your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my bloodThis is my loss of limb, my loss of loveCall your bluff up on the telephone and jam-jar my bloodThis is my loss of limb, my loss of loveIt was so cold you could see both sets of ribsalmost escaping your skinTo fly south, south until the springtimeYour hips stood out like confidence, you were *****as a newborn in the snowand you wanted it so. That's precisely how you wanted itAnd now your love is writing words on the wallwith the meat of a nectarineThat she picked earlier that morning in the orchardAnd you are on the street, a chest of drawers freeWhile the skeleton parade marches past youCarrying bird balloonsThey fly backwards and forwardsThe streets can be eerie, streets can be drearyIt's as if leprosy, it landed on the moonAnd it cast a filthy glow in the world and in my roomSo how about I play the harp and you play that pianopull the curtains shut and nest like little sparrowsMy limbs, my love are lost on youMy limbs, my love belong to you.I remember that night in the woodson the human balance beamMade of a long wooden boardwith a barrel underneathWe laid on either endand we couldn't quite knack itafter many attemptsAnd minutes of silenceUntil we didAnd our breath caughtand we looked upand the stars, they were so stilland the stars, they were so stillBoth our hearts, they were revealedOur hearts, they were revealedAnd you were my friendThis is my loss of love, my loss of limbYou were my friendand nowI'm a ghost and you all know itI'm singing songs and I ain't stoppingMy hair grew long so I *****ing cut itand when you looked awayI snuck those trimmings in your lockethaha.
