A Lot Like Birds - Ted Bundy's Thanksgiving Dinner

Distance is confidence
He's exactly the same with a different last name
I promise that I will take you home
I meant nothing but I am the way home

A Lot Like Birds - Your Ex Marked My Spot

"I'm standing here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur!"

Just for tonight,
Can we leave this bed?
Cause I'm been alone here waiting for sometime
But she's been screaming all night
All night

And even if it wasn't what you planned it'd be
You'll still be here when August turns to April
And asks me where I've been,
Well here I am [well here I am...]

[I'd stay for you]
Well I thought I might,
Just watch as your trepid little footsteps
Will synchronize with mine
[I'd stay for you]
So I know that at least we still have time
Yeah at least I still got time

[I know you think]
Oh but forever's a beautiful word when it's spoken
[But it's not]
Two inches from another's face
[Some say love hurts]
And oh they all keep telling me that nothing's permanent
[Forever]
As if it could be any consolation

Just for tonight,
Can we leave this bed?
Cause I'm been alone here waiting for sometime
But she's been screaming all night
All night

And even if it wasn't what you planned it'd be
You'll still be here when August turns to April
And asks me where I've been,
Well here I am [well here I am...]

[I'd stay for you]
Well I'll grow old, and die in a house alone
And you won't know
[I'd stay for you]
And I stayed here
Worked at this job for forty years
I'm still here.

Go!
Shit...

A Lot Like Birds - Sesame Street Is No Place for Vengence

"Yeah, well, at least I'm not ugly."
"Yes you are. And you're boring. And you're totally ordinary. And you know it."

"Tonight I present to congress six six six great goals."

"Oh, God."

"The main challenge in our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony."

"Our children that will be born this year will come of age in the twenty-first century...
What kind of society... What kind of world... Are we building for them?"

"Jesus fucking christ..."
"Yeah..."
"What did we learn, Palmer?"
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't fucking know either.
I guess we learned not to do it again."
"Yes, sir."
"But I'm fucked if I know what we did..."
"Yes, sir, it's, uh... Hard to say."
"Jesus fucking christ..."

A Lot Like Birds - How I Parted the Red Sea

"Now you're gonna die, wearin' that stupid little hat. How does it feel?"

A Lot Like Birds - Hallows or Horcruxes

"It doesn't even exist..."

I harnessed a wave,
Commanded it to carry me away
It dissolved when the day came,
And now I'm still here

And I'm beginning to think
That maybe if it's all just half as much as I can take
Well I can't fight it now

Well it's alright now
That I'm lying in your bed
It's alright now

Well it's alright now
That I'm lying in your bed
Your bed...

[Well it's alright now]
And I'm beginning to think
[That I'm lying in your bed]
That maybe if it's all just half as much as I can take
[It's alright now]
Well I can't fight it now

A Lot Like Birds - Vanity's Fair

Hold your tongue!
It doesn't own you!
Or does it by default?
You can't pretend that it's not weighing you down
or that you really even want me around because you don't.
I know that burdens are a girl's best friend!
In the end, you'd give it up for the weekend.
You don't even want me around.
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
We can't look at you; you're not the same.
I keep thinking, you use your brain.
Already threw it away!
Don't give a fuck what we say!
Already threw it away, oh no.
Learn to hold your tongue. It doesn't own you.
You can go but I might stay!
Yeah, I noticed that you're so bored but I'm okay!
It's not a problem for me; is it a problem for you? Hope not!
And if you're asking me to stick around then why is it,
when we separate you keep holding on and on.
Oh, but not for long. Not for long!
Aside from all the points turning thoughts into sickness,
all my stupid blind ambitions never fit inside your vision.
Maybe so, I don't know.
Sure, I could've made it work,
been the necessary jerk like you wanted me to be.
Aside from all the rest,
there's a sickness in my thoughts where the twist to every plot is:
what I think I am, I'm not! Maybe so, I don't know!
I could never make it work but I sure could make it hurt.
Do you want this from me? And as you may recall,
I never signed a thing at all.
You just started your addiction.
I just started my withdrawal.
It seems to me the suit I wear is too tight at the neck
but the tailor that is vanity is sure it fits me best.
It's not a flattering color on me but I wear it always
because my skin's been sold, it's always cold
and all my methods seem too damn old.
I should've folded a long time ago.
I came in thinking that I'd know exactly what my part is,
know all of the lines because I'd authored all the hardest
but I didn't have the will, so I don't know why I started.
These empty ribs still have no room to fit a proper heart in!
So if all you want are flowers, just plant yourself a garden.
DON'T RELY ON ME. Quit calling me to remind me.
I have many ways to remember all those things and even now,
I cling to them. It's sad.
I know it's hard but I swear it gets easier.
It just takes distraction and time.
I can't tell if I'm undeservedly given to
or if I'm undeservedly giving what's mine.

A Lot Like Birds - Truly Random Code

True, you say you are.
I'll be honest when I say I'm not.
Use any excuse to get what I want.
I tell you what you wanna hear.
Hurting you is the only thing that I could do.
And I tried to make a motive of good intention without attention.
So I'll have the best behavior.
I'm not a savior. I have too many layers.
And transpose the meaning, the meaning of all of this.
Sorry I missed your call. Was it distress?
If I reach past your smile, grab an SOS, do I shatter the illusion?
Am I doing you a favor?
Is there anything to salvage?
Is there anything to savor?
Am I wasting time that I don't have?
Convincing bystanders around us that it's not that bad?
Well, it's pretty bad so head back home.
Flip through a book and pick a god to thank you're not alone.
Narcissus broke a mirror and put the shards into his arm
via hypodermic needle but it didn't do him harm.
A little self-reflection went a long, long way.
Now he's hiding in the cellar, scared to show the world his face.
Well, I've never learned a lesson that I didn't teach myself.
I may have lost my shot at heaven, but I bored myself with hell.
My thoughts on Mother Nature? Hurt her every chance you get.
I've really come to hate her. Let's cross her off the list!
Every skipped stone shears the river into liquid,
shining slivers like the steady scalpel of a surgeon
selling virgin flesh to the highest bidder.
If only all the oracles of old could order us to open doors
that we have closed or offer options over ones that we naively chose.
What we don't know we don't know we don't know.
Stay calm! Stay silent! "Seek out the sewers,"� sang out the sirens!
I am the cleaner; you're the mess.
Your little white flag is right by your side so just fly it.
I am the cleaner; you're the mess.
SOS!

A Lot Like Birds - Properties of Friction

Oh, the motor in the back of your neck
is begging and calling for sex
and the lizards are laying some monstrous eggs
in an entropic tropical mess.
While you're sleeping, I'm crawling,
I've crept to the edge of the bed
where you've slept for a thousand nights alone
in a cavern you call home.
I'm here so let's do this.
Your hands on my legs,
you say the things I want to hear.
Let's please just keep touching.
I don't wanna think.
Please keep me from thinking.
I missed your name! Can I hear it again?
I missed your name! Can I hear it again?
While you were talking my eyes kept walking
down the walkway of your neckline
so I didn't hear you begging. Can I hear it again?
So many dreams have left me tired, waking up and shaking on my own.
I ignored a ticking clock to call you and made a weapon of my phone.
Poor judgment and bankrupt morals!
A girl without a penny for her thoughts!
I guess I like you cheap.
I guess that conscience long since rot has sent me spiraling
so lost into the planet of your skin.
There's a fear that we will end that just won't let me begin.
And though I have no qualms with lust,
your body is a howling, haunted petting zoo that I really shouldn't touch.
And as I'm walking out the door for good,
I turn around to look at you and you're"�
You're already undressed!
If I draw near, do you disappear?
If I stay away, will you call my name?

A Lot Like Birds - Tantrum

Save your arms and legs cause you're the mother and no one will hold us up for so long.
We will always resort to fodder. We crawl in the crack, falling through your limbs.
If she was here, she'd say be careful but she'd already let it go.
Do as I say, not as I've done. Just trust in me. Believe me.
When you left me, you didn't leave me a trail to follow.
No, you just swallowed all the crumbs along the way
so you could feed all the ghosts that hide inside your bones
cause maybe if their mouths are full they'll stop whispering that you're better off alone.
It wasn't nice of you to go out without saying goodbye.
So I think I'll hunt you down and punish you. Good luck trying to hide.
My temper's a teacher with a hell of a lesson plan.
You might know this but I've got a rifle and stifling manners.
You control this and any consistency scares me from progress.
I don't show it but I'm catching on and can see through the pattern.
Don't talk! Read this! Your strong upper hand will get lost in the process.
Got matters to attend to and methods to convince you to stay right where you
Are you ready to apologize? I won't believe you but it's worth a few tries.
Don't look down! Look in my eyes! Go on and feed me some lies. Lie to me!
I make this into what you always keep from me.
Although your secrets are locked away,
you forget that you left me a key on a day that's just memory;
when we were young and were happy.
When lying on the bed with not a thing to do and words unsaid,
we were certain that things were perfect.
Of course I'm bitter thinking things would never change.
I can't let go and this is why I always make this into what you keep from me.

A Lot Like Birds - Think Dirty Out Loud

To the fish in the sea, put your mouths on my hook.
If I'm soft, will you give me the medusa look?
Well, your dress lit the floor on fire when it touched.
So my little black book, how it shook, how it shook,
how it shook shook shook shook SHOOK!
I heard that sometimes you like to suffocate.
Cry out to me oh won't you please.
Speak to me oh GREAT DANE WHILE I RIDE THE MAIN VEIN.
When I write about you honey, oh the ink just runs off the page.
Wow, what subject matter but by no means be FLATTERED BY THERE'S BRUISES ON YOUR LEGS.
What a clever trick! Drop in with a bowl of cherries telling me I have to pick,
but how could you not see the locks on the door?
There's no turning back.
You'll get all that you wanted and more!
So pick up the rope and wear it.
If your friends want the noose, will you share it?
Ooh, baby you just don't do me right!
Maybe we can try one more time.
Put your spine right on the dotted line.
Ring around the right posy, woesy and whimsy wire line.
That's just about the right time to make you mine, all mine.
Time and energy all for nothing.
I should've listened to my intuition.
Now I'm stuck under the floorboards
but they're splitting as you're stripping down to
Vines and melody, they surround you.
Sometimes I wonder if your trap really worked.
Are you the remedy? Sensual medicine?
If so, prep the patient for a long shot.
Lay down where you please, on your back.
La la la la.
I am the dog drooling tar on the nape of your neck.
I eat emotional wrecks and yours is the best.
You know I tried. You know I tried.
I've got a pocketful of dark black pickup lines
that I want to spill down the well of your throat like a pile
of ants in an alien line to see what they do.
To see what they find. Will you just let them decline?
I spiked both our drinks with a gallon of ink,
now I'm writing a novel from your insides.
We're a spider with our limbs doing anything but walking.
A conversation with our mouths doing anything but talking.
Hey, take off the rope!
You've worn it and after all, it was boring.
I think I'm falling asleep.

A Lot Like Birds - Orange Time Machines Care

Il etait une fois
When learning how to crawl became a substitute for walking
Biting my tongue a fair exchange for talking to myself
Knocking pictures off the shelf and swallowing the frames
Spilling wine to comment on the stain
I need a mind erase option, less air to the brain
If God was alive he would've amended us
but then again no one has it as bad as I have or ever will
to the extent that if I have to finish this,
I might have to leave everything else undone
And it's all numb anyway.
I can see our life before my eyes and it looks real
Sunrise; an easy thing to steal
I'll drive! I'm best behind the wheel
Besides, I get confused and I'll need you to navigate
the complicated courts and lanes that crowd this place
I swear to God the street signs change when my eyes close
They're not the same.
They're not the same
I get lost easily
I get lost easily
Help guide me home please
Help guide me home please
I always take the fall! Why are you always getting sick?
The complications won't solve itself!
I always take the fall! Why are you always getting sick?
The complications won't solve itself!
We used to sing our song and what it meant to us
and it's gone and every emotion, that all went along with it's gone.
I shared it all with you. You said you'd love me too. So love me too.
Are you crawling away or is it time to go through?
Were we always this way or was I too fucked up to know?
I sang your favorite song. You told me it was too long.
I asked you what was wrong. The list goes on and on...

A Lot Like Birds - Sesame Street Is No Place for Romance

"You must know deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to make love. It is our main purpose in life! All those other activities... Playing the violin, washing dishes, reading novels, drinking wine, are just ways of passing time... Until you
can make love again."

I know something you don't,
Won't ever know
I know something you don't,
Take my advice, take my advice, please, babe

(???)

You're busy stealing glances
And I know
That nothing in this world's for free

Take my advice, take my advice, please, babe

Don't you think that we haven't noticed your uncanny silence
[Uncanny, uncanny silence]
We've made note of those circles that are deepening under your eyes
[Under your eyes, under your eyes]
Darling, where have you been?
[Where have you been, where have you been?]

Pretending like an elephant doesn't make you wise,
And I think it's time
[Yeah, I think it's time]
That you say it for yourself

Pretending like an elephant doesn't make me wise
No matter how loud I scream it
It won't scare away the flies
And though I know how you listen
You never hear a thing
So just sit there in your painting
While these mockingbirds sing

(???)