Clara

[Intro]

Birds

Birds

[Chorus]

This is not a cornhusk doll

Dipped in blood in the moonlight

Like what happen' in America

This is us, our eyesides snagged

Dipped in mob in the daylight

Like what happen' in America

[Refrain]

The breasts are still heavy

The legs long and straight

The upper lip remains short

The teeth still too small

The eyeside is green

The hair long and black

Still coming through!

Still coming through!

[Bridge]

She knows this room

She can navigate it in the dark

[Verse 1]

She entered the Palazzo at night by a side door

To ascend in a lift to the upper floor

She lies on the bed, looking up not yet seeing

The signs of the zodiac painted in gold on the blue vaulted ceiling

His enormous eyes as he arrives

Coming nearer in the surrounding darkness

His strange beliefs about the moon

Its influence upon men of affairs

The danger of its cold light

On your face while you were sleeping

She'll eclipse it with her head, stroke him 'til he sleeps

Until he has nothing to do among men of affairs

[Verse 2]

Sometime before dawn

Her bare feet cross the floor

She gazes from the window

At the fountain in the courtyard

"Sometimes I feel like a swallow

A swallow which by some mistake

Has gotten into an attic

And knocks its head against the walls in terror"

[Chorus]

This is not a rabbit skinned

With a body of silver

Like what happen' in America

This is not a terrapin

With its shell torn away

Like what happen in America

[Refrain]

The breasts are still heavy

The legs long and straight

The upper lip remains short

The teeth still too small

The eyeside is green

The hair long and black

Still coming through!

Still coming through!

[Verse 3]

The mood soon changed in the clear morning air

A man came up towards the body and poked it with a stick

It rocked stiffly and twisted around at the end of the rope

Finer than a hair from every side

Finer than a hair

[Chorus]

This is just a cornhusk doll

Dipped in blood in the moonlight

This is just a cornhusk doll

[Outro]

This morning in my room

A little swallow was trapped

It flew around desperately

Until it fell exhausted on my bed

I picked it up

So as not to frighten it

I opened the window

Then I opened my hand