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Arab Strap

Bluebird

Release date: 5th March 2021

From As Days Get Dark
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About This Track

"Bluebird" is a track by Arab Strap, from the album As Days Get Dark, released 5th March 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Arab Strap

Arab Strap

Lyrics

Bluebird

[Verse 1]

I thought of you too quickly, my body went to work

I sent signals to my fingers, my lips became a smirk

I stroked you out, I cleaned you up, I loved you into life

I sent you to another world, but you just turned the knife

[Chorus]

I don't want your love, I need your love

Give me your love, don't love me

I don't want your love, I need your love

Don't love me

[Verse 2]

The shitehawk is nocturnal, he thrives in the night

Hiding in the bushes as he hawks his shite

He knows what's black and white and he knows what's good and true

He knows all the right thoughts to think and knows what's best for you

[Chorus]

I don't want your love, I need your love

Give me your love, don't love me

I don't want your love, I need your love

Don't love me

[Bridge]

We talk to no one, we talk to all

We gab with ghosts in windows

But to see is not to know, to like is not to love

Never present, never here, never there

Locked in our loops of half-truths and trifles

And who are you anyway? Who am I anyway?

Is there anybody there? Does anybody care?

[Chorus]

I don't want your love, I need your love

Give me your love, don't love me

I don't want your love, I need your love

Don't love me

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Track details

From As Days Get Dark

2021
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As Days Get Dark
As Days Get Dark
Arab Strap
Release year
2021
  1. —Another Clockwork Day
  2. —Fable of the Urban Fox
  3. —Bluebird
  4. —Tears On Tour
  5. —Just Enough
  6. —Sleeper
  7. —The Turning of Our Bones
    5:05
  8. —I Was Once a Weak Man
  9. —Kebabylon

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Philophobia Undressed
2025
Encrypted Valentines
2025
As Days Get Dark / Demos
2021
The Summer Has Ended (Tascam Demos 1995)
2020
Acoustic Request Show (Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow, 16th October 2004)
2005
The Shy Retirer E.P.
2003

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  7. Fable of the Urban Fox (Check/Fault mix)
  8. Haven't You Heard?Encrypted Valentines
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  9. Here Comes Comus!
  10. Here We GoPhilophobia Undressed
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