in my opinion...this song evidently shows...that sometimes...beautiful haunting music...is backed up by funky weird lyrics (flightless bird, fat house cat?!)...which may initially don't jive...but all in all...STILL WORKS!
or maybe I just don't have time to find the underlying meaning of the lyrics haha
Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron and Wine
(Twilight OST)
I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your straight blind eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big bill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Cursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks
Kissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big bill, stuck going down
