1.Desperation Breeds
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
Beekeeper sing of your frustration
In this litigious breeze
Of accidental pollination
In this era without bees
We keep breeding desperation
In this era of thieves
Who keep stealing respiration
From the tenderest of trees
This peculiar incantation
Sure you heard it before
Instead of breeding desperation
Make me a pallet on your floor
2.Polynation
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
3.Danse Caribe
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
You were a shameless child
Bandied by stiff cross currents
Anything but 'my', 'yes', and 'no'
Just simply weren't invented yet
Oh yes, oh no
Then one day you'd had it
Exiled your close advisors
Ousted your dog, your rabbits
You're through with pasifizers
You're through with pasifizers now
You're through with pasifizers
Here we go mistaking clouds for mountains, oh
Here's the thing that brings the sparrows to the fountains, oh
Here's the thing that makes you wrong for the highlands, oh
Here we go mistaking clouds for mountains
Autonomy
Then one day you'd had it
Exiled your close advisors
Ousted your dog, your rabbits
You're through with pasifizers
You're through with pasifizers now
You're through with pasifizers now
You're through with pasifizers
Here we go mistaking clouds for mountains, oh
Heres the thing that brings the sparrows to the fountains, oh
Here's the thing that makes you wrong for the highlands
Here we go mistaking clouds for mountains
Autonomy
4.Give It Away
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
Did you give it away？
Did you give it away for free？
Don't you give it away
Let's try to keep it in the family
I know you know desolation
Coming home with your pockets full of sand
I know it's no vacation, ohohoh
Now you found your tiny patch of land
...
In the nation under your command
Did you give it away？ (Yeah I gave it away)
Did you give it away for free？
What would you have us pay？
I didn't know that your love was a commodity
What about appreciation？ ohohoh
That depends on your depth and density
What about inflation？ ohohoh
Charts and graphs don't mean a thing to me
In your nation
With it's worthless currency
(Wanna give it away, give it away for free)
(Won't you give it away, give it away to me)
(Won't you give it away, give it away for free)
(Won't you give it away, give it away to me)
Would you hide in the hay？
Would you hide in the hay with me？
If you hide in the hay
Where it's dark and you can scarcely breathe or see
A short asphyxiation
Where the foxes and field mice make their dance
Just by association
I swore I'd never take anyone there again
To this nation
A nation under your command
To this nation
A nation under your command
To this nation
A nation under your command
5.Eyeoneye
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
Go ahead and congratulate yourself
give yourself a hand,
a hand is yours
in the harden hours, and so
and here it heals itself, it's too much
and you're getting too close
you're getting too close
you're getting to close to your soul
you've done the impossible now
took yourself apart
made yourself invulnerable
no one can break your heart
so you break it yourself
bringing your own, break it yourself
bringing your own, break it yourself
bringing your own, but break it yourself
bringing your own, but break it yourself
bringing your own,
go ahead and re-eyeoneye yourself
give yourself a hand,
a hand is yours
and you go ahead and bring it all
go ahead and stretch it all
go ahead and read inside
dare to protest it makes this
boy and girl, two eyes
too rigid, all the sadness
a hundred stories high
and you re-eyeoneyeze
and it's eyeoneyeze-eyeoneyeze-eyeoneyeze
all this time it took to realize
that you could use some help
bringing your heart, breaking the shell
bringing your heart, breaking the shell
bringing your heart, but break it yourself
bringing your heart, but break it yourself
give yourself a hand, a hand is yours
go ahead and wear it out
and you go ahead and stretch it out
and you go ahead and wear it inside out
and it's eyeoneye-oneye-oneye
and it's eyeoneye-oneye-oneye
6.Lazy Projector
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
If memory serves us, then who owns the master
How do we know who's projecting this reel
And is it like gruel or like quick drying plaster
Tell me how long til the paint starts to peel
Is it like Pyramus or Apollo or an archer we don't know
Though history repeats itself, and time's a crooked bow
Come on tell us something we don't know
Now who's the best boy and the casting director
And the editor splicing your face from the scene
It's all in the hands of a lazy projector
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine
They say all good things must come to an end
Everyday the night must fall
How it all came to this, I simply can't recall
Too many cooks in the kitchen
How the mighty must fall
But I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all
I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all
I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all
Breaking up at all
And it's all in the hands of a lazy projector
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine
7.Near Death Experience Experience
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
You used to be like toffee,
Between the kitten's teeth -
You used to build arid shelters out of sticks and leaves and
spend the whole day underneath.
You used to be like copper -
Pliable but strong,
You used to smile and nod, say 'you're right,' be polite,
When you know that everybody's wrong.
So you dare the plane to crash,
redeem the miles for cash when it starts to dive
And we'll dance like cancer survivors -
like we're grateful simply to be alive.
Dare the plane to crash,
redeem the miles for cash
And we'll dance like cancer survivors -
like your prognosis was that you should've died.
No, there's nothing wrong; there's nothing wrong when it starts
to down
And we'll dance like cancer survivors -
like we're grateful simply to be alive
No, there's nothing wrong; there's nothing wrong when it starts
to down
And we'll dance like cancer survivors
8.Behind The Barn
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
9.Lusitania
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
If your loose and libel lips
Keep sinking all my ships
Then you're the one who sank my Lusitania
But some how it don't register as pain at all
Till it finds your crooked vein
It should help us not remember the Maine
You're laying mines along your shore
Through my hull it ripped and tore
We don't study this war no more
So we let our back bones slip
Till the arc spits from our fingertips
And we'll become a hazard in the rain
Oh and we'll get charged out in the rain
There's a sixty-cycle hum
Go ahead say something dumb
Boy there's no shame
There's no shame
Go ahead say something dumb boy
There's no shame
10.Orpheo Looks Back
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
And there are places we must go to
To bring these hollow words on back from
You must cross a muddy river
Where love turns to love turns to fear
They say you don't look
There's only one way
On back from on back from here
They say you don't look
They say you don't look cause it'll disappear
And our eyes they keep on strainin'
As if to see what lies behind them
Through the shells of empty buildings and great columns of glass
They say you don't look
They say you don't look
Cause it'll drive you mad
And if it drives you mad
If it drives you mad
It'll prob'ly pass
11.Sifters
Writer(s)：Andrew BirdSharon Lanza
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
moon plays the wave like a violin, pushing and pulling
from shore to shore, biggest melody you never heard before, no
what if i were the night sky？ if i were the night sky
it's my lullaby to leave by
what if we hadn't been born at the same time
what if you were 75 and were 9？
would i still visit you？
bring you cookies in an old folks' home
would you be there alone？
when the late summer fires off in your arms
will i remember to breathe？ no, i never will.
in a fire i could convince you that i mean you no harm
just wanna show you i'm not too mean
if i were the the night sky and if i were the night sky
heres my lullaby
my lullaby to leave by
lullaby to leave by
if i were the night
what if we hadn't been each other at the same time
would you tell me all the stories from when you were young and
in your prime
would i rock you to sleep
would you tell me all the secrets you don't need to keep
would i still miss you
oh, would you then have been mine？
sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
moon plays the ocean like a violin
pushing and pulling from shore to shore
biggest melody you've never heard before
what if i were the night sky？ i were the night sky
here's my lullaby to leave my
my lullaby to leave by
lullaby to leave by
if i were the night sky
12.Fatal Shore
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
Would it be easier so much easier
If you never knew us
Would you ever fear anymore
If you never knew us
Would we meet on a fatal shore
On a fatal shore？
When are you comin to shore
To never fear anymore
You never know any doubt
Like we who breathe in and out
Are you a breather
Mail receiver？
If you could see right through us
Through our clothes and through our pores
If you could see right through us
You're gonna run into your homes and lock your doors
13.Hole In The Ocean Floor
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
I woke with a start
Crying bullets, beating heart
To hear all God's creatures
Roaring again
Not a cricket was creaking,
Or a floorboard was squeaking,
And all the world was snoring for show
There's a hole in the ocean floor
There's a hole in the ocean floor
Gonna stop bleeding alone
I woke with a start
Crying bullets, beating heart
To hear all God's creatures
Roaring again...
14.Belles
Writer(s)：Andrew Bird
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