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Andrew Bird – Desperation Breeds... (2012) | Track profile | Dork

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Andrew Bird
Break It Yourself
Desperation Breeds...

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Desperation Breeds...

Release date: 5th March 2012

From Break It Yourself

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About This Track

"Desperation Breeds..." is a track by Andrew Bird, from the album Break It Yourself, released 5th March 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

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Andrew Bird

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Lyrics

Desperation Breeds...

Beekeeper sing of your frustration

In this litigious breeze

Of accidental pollination

In this era without bees

Without bees, without bees

We keep breeding desperation

In this era of thieves

Who keep stealing respiration

From the tenderest of trees, trees

This peculiar incantation

I'm sure you heard it before

Instead of breeding desperation

Make me a pallet on your floor

On your floor, on your floor...

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Track details

From Break It Yourself

2012

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Release year

2012

—Orpheo Looks Back
—The Sifters
—Hole in the Ocean Floor
—Belles
—Behind the Barn
—Danse Caribe
—Give It Away
—Desperation Breeds...
—Polynation
—Fatal Shore
—Lusitania
—Near Death Experience Experience
—Lazy Projector

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Writer: Andrew Bird
Producer: Andrew Bird, David Boucher, Neal Jensen
Bass: Mike Lewis
Drums: Martin Dosh
Guitar: Andrew Bird, Jeremy Ylvisaker
Keyboards: Jeremy Ylvisaker
Vocals: Andrew Bird
Assistant Engineer: Peter Mignola, Teruhisa Uchiyama
Background Vocals: Simone White
Mastering Engineer: Jeff Lipton, Maria Rice
Mixing Engineer: Neal Jensen
Recording Engineer: David Boucher, Neal Jensen
Violin: Andrew Bird