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Little Wings

from The Year Of The Stat by Ican Ican't

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Written during a 9 month stay in 2007 back home in the Co Carlow countryside. I quit my job in Tower Records to go at the music full-time with Alanalda. I just had a day when the birdsong was really annoying me when normally one should rejoice at the singing of the birds. Not this day. I had originally wanted to go with a Johnny Cash-type drum pattern but came across this one somewhere and fashioned the rhythm around it. We started a video for this but it came to nothing in the end.

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Verse 1
There’s a nest in a tree
And the fuckin birds are laughing down at me
What do they know what I go through
No they don’t know what it feels like to be me
They build their nests
Where we can’t get
And mock us all
Accordingly
Just wait til I
Get my hands
On their little wings

Verse 2
They sing their songs for far too long
Why can’t they let it rest and let me sing my piece?
My songs of pain, songs of rain
Why can’t they just let me be miserable in peace
My heart is broke
My dog is dead
And I can’t get
A wink of sleep
Just wait til I
Get my hands
On their little wings

Mid
They live so naturally
And they don’t have to think
About where everything’s goin
They just get on with it

Verse 3
My little beaked, beaked cousins
How do you manage to take it all on the chin?
Is it the trips away each year
You get to holiday and you don’t pollute the air
Is that the key
To harmony
With the world
And everything?
You telling me
I should get my hands
On some little wings?
Just wait til I
Get my hands
On those little wings!

© Dermot O’Leary 2007

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from The Year Of The Stat, released September 20, 2012

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