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For the Birds

by The Revenants

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1.
Far Away 06:07
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I live in the here and now Not some place way over there I exist in present time The only time 'bout which I care And I don't care about the past It don't concern me no how When you ask me how I have been It's more how I am right now And now I am so far away So far away right now I am not stuck in a place and time I just play it as it lays Some people long for bygone nights But I don't count the days I'm not saying I'm above it all I'm not really different than you I just let myself go, I let myself go It's how I learned to continue It's not that I'm in some kind of denial Or that I wanna pretend about what I've done I know who I am and what I'm capable of My misdeeds weigh about a ton But the only way to go is up and ahead The only way out is a straight line You can come along and see what is what Or you can stay back and you can pine
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Beat the Whites With the Red Ledge 04:37
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Can't Get Off the Ground 07:37
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Defeated Depleted I am feeling so mistreated Don't know what the hell I'm gonna do Now the two of us are over and through It is all because of you I can't get off the ground It is all because of you I can't get off the ground Shattered Scattered Knocked down, beat up and battered Couldn't be more bruised and blue The only sound I can make is boo-boo It is all because of you I can't get off the ground It is all because of you I can't get off the ground I try to fly away But my wings are bent and broken I try to take a train But I can't afford a token I try to forget you But you haunt me in my dreams I try to stitch myself up But I fall apart at the seams Used Abused My bold advances have been refused Should've gotten me some super glue Or tightened us together with a philips-head screw It is all because of you I can't get off the ground It is all because of you I can't get off the ground
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The Devil's Been Busy 04:12
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Hey you with your face buried in your phone I bet you're hoping that the world will just leave you alone But there are troubles Yeah troubles coming down the pike There are troubles gonna burst Like a crumbing dike The devil's been busy Hey you with your air of disaffection You don't care about nothing but your own complexion If someone gets in your way You shove them down, down, down You are king of world You wear the heavyweight crown The devil's been busy Hey you with that vacant glint in your eyes You got no need to question all the how's and why's It's not up to you to right all of the wrongs So take your place among the zombie throngs The devil's been busy
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Painted Bird 03:35
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Nobody knows me Not even my mom and dad They've ostracized me And that just makes me sad But here I am I am your baby boy Here is my birthmark Here is my favorite toy Fly, fly, fly you painted bird I've lived with cruelty I've lived with bullies I've been tortured With their chains and pullys They don't hear me They won't let me speak They just mock me And treat me like a freak You paint my face You tear my fragile wing You crack my beak so I can barely sing But I'm stIll here I'm gonna tell my tale Ain't got no glory Ain't got no epic scale
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Not a Moment Goes By 03:33
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What am I thinking What am I thinking What am I thinking I'm thinking 'bout you What I am wanting What I am wanting What I am wanting Coo-coo-ca-choo I can't let it go I can't let it go It's drilled in me like a rusty corkscrew Not a moment goes by Not a moment goes by C'mon honey, please let me touch you I must be crazy I must be crazy I must be crazy outta my mind My obsession My obsession My obsession The two of us combined I am so alone I am so alone I have been quarantined Not a moment goes by Not a moment goes by What am I needing What am I needing I am needing to taste your flesh Don't you pull away Don't you pull away Don't you tell me that I'm being too fresh We should be together We should be together We should be synchromesh Not a moment goes by Not a moment goes by
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Last Time We Got Into This 04:23
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I punched you in the kisser It was a real pisser, it left a scar Like a scratch on a fancy car You won't forgive me You hope to out-live me Then I wrote a song About a man who always gets it all wrong He was a fool, a string at the end of its spool I said touche, you got me good today We tore each other down There was blood all around Last time we got into this We fought like hell Didn't go very well Last time we got into this We talked a lot of smack Said too much to take back I exposed your flaws To rapturous applause You retaliated In ways I underestimated Spread a lot of grief That became our leitmotif Our overriding theme We took to the extreme And what did we get Other than venom and spit Oh baby, you are so cruel How dare you talk about me like that Oh baby, you are so hard I can't believe where your head is at We get up off the ground Steady ourselves for another round A kick in the teeth Sneak attack from underneath Make up and kiss, live out our lives like this
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I Will Live to See You Die 04:33
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I can recall when I first fell so hard You looked right through me And I swooned There was something clear In your soft green eyes You disarmed me And the walls fell I will walk you out of the desert, you said And I believed you 'Cause I so wanted to believe I will take you by the hand, you said I held out my hand And you pulled away I will live to see you die, I will live to see you die An eye for an eye, an eye for an eye I will live to see you die I can recall when it first took shape Like camera lens coming to focus And I rushed to meet the tide And it bowled me right over I was just fool enough let you in I let you take over And you ran the joint right into the ground Tossed in a match And set the world on fire And we dance among the ruins And we dance among the ruins And we drink and we die laughing It would be easy to be angry Because the anger kills the love And love is fragile And anger devours it like a raging beast I don’t want what we have to come to ruin And wind up alone out in the desert I just want to feel love I just want to feel your love
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For the Birds 04:17
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Had a thought A strange, strange thought And the thought became my reality Ate me up And it spit me out With its very own brutality I been under attack There ain’t no fighting back Ain’t no fighting back It’s for the birds It’s for the birds Fly, fly away It’s for the birds It’s for the birds Bird of prey Had a feeling A deep, deep feeling And I felt it with all my might Tried to keep it bottled But I let it go And man it took flight It took flight Had a dream A crazy waking dream It had its own mise en scene Her piercing green look The slope of her neck It’s for whatever I want it to mean
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A Detour on the Path to Enlightenment 04:02
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Why am I Why am I here today Should have gone Should have gone away I held on I held on somehow Could not let go Let go of the now I had to ask myself what I did and where it went And I took a detour on the path to enlightenment I guess I'll never know what all of it has meant On my detour on the path to enlightenment Who am I Who am I, I ask I set out I set out on this task I got blocked Blocked at every turn Should've known You would think that I'd learn Thought I might get out alive Turns out no one does survive I was wrong I was wrong Never found a place I could belong
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Fly Little Starling, Fly 04:39
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You're set to go The runway’s clear Whenever you want Let go of your fear You got a map You got a heading Better get on your way A fog is spreading You will be missed that’s for sure You gotta get gone just as soon as you can You gotta spread out your wing span Fly little starling, fly Fly, fly, fly Fly, fly, fly Fly away to where the north winds blow Fly away to where you want to go You've been waiting for this Don't you back down now You can't chicken out You've taken a vow This place is a drag A new world awaits Strap yourself in And drop your weights You will be missed that’s for sure
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My Psychosis 06:14
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This didn’t turn out Quite the way I thought it would This is not the life I was hoping for What I was hoping for Was something a little bit better Something grander, something more I think about the time I was on that stretch of highway And my car got run off the road It was then and there everything changed It was then and there I saw my life explode This is me, this is who I am, this is how I feel This is my story, this is my world and none of it is real Sometimes I imagine I slipped through a crack Into an alternate dimension Things were the sort of the same and sort of not It was a place outside my comprehension And in this place things seemed slightly off In a way almost imperceptible And I didn’t get it at first, didn’t see the change It just became what was acceptable What is it like to be in my head What is it like to feel what I feel I could draw you a graphic novel But to you it would never seem real Time goes by in the way time goes by And I grew up and grew older And the love of my life she got away from me And the world got a lot colder And I came to realize just what had happened I had broken through by osmosis You can say I’m crazy You can say I’m nuts You can say it’s my psychosis

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"This growing old thing, it's for the birds."
–Muriel Francis Farber Kusnitt, possibly apocryphal

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released July 28, 2023

Cover "For the Birds" by Eliot Wilder

Thanks to Dave Westner for playing bass on "I Will Live to See You Die" and "My Psychosis."

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