Little Sparrows Lyrics

Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves The flicker of a strange light...Read Full Lyrics

I swear I heard a bird high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Just burning, blinding leaves,...Read Full Lyrics

Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch She lived high in the bramble forest Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right, she came down to our little village She brought bl...Read Full Lyrics

My ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish Falling neutrinos drift through the trees He staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills And clogs up the toilet with bottles of pi...Read Full Lyrics

I saw a deer limp across A supermarket parking lot Last night as I drove home from work Old men sleeping in the dirt Abandoned buildings full of smoke Children jumping from ...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] How can you say there's only one way up? When you know there's a million ways down Some folks are falling, others trying to get up I'm the one who's staggering around...Read Full Lyrics

We came in this world together Legs wrapped around each other My cheek against my sister's We were born like tangled vine We lived along the river Where the black clouds never lin...Read Full Lyrics

The octopus has three hearts, it lives in caves below the sea Or in a beer can or a bath tub or a puddle on the street Any fisherman can tell you when an octopus waves its arms ...Read Full Lyrics

Why do you dream Of pearly white gates High in the air Where no bird flies No tree grows Beyond the sky Our blue sky Why do you dream That worms and dogs Hills and clouds Are not...Read Full Lyrics

The blue house at the corner of Twilight and State Four storeys, soaring turrets, floors of wood parquet And owls, so many owls, snowy, horned and screech Thousands of owls, al...Read Full Lyrics