Bird House

[Verse 1]

Lady made no mention

Barefoot down the hallway

Turning on the lights in the empty rooms

[Verse 2]

In the largest of houses

With the darkest of windows

Morning bells of birds in the woods abound

[Verse 3]

Lady made no mention

That her stomach, it had left her

Feet, they made no sound here anymore

[Bridge]

What to tell when there’s no one left to listen?

What to say when there’s no one left around?

[Verse 4]

Lady took the silence to mean nobody loved her

Thе light missed all the windows

Therе could be no sun

And since they all had left her

For school and sports and parties

Politics and quivers in the night

[Bridge]

She began to speak her longings to the rope

Began to speak her longings to the rope

[Chorus]

She said, "This land, he loves my reclamation

He’ll pay this date out for the crime

And I give my breath out to beloved birds

And this will be the last time he walks away without me"

[Verse 5]

So she chose the pathway sloping to the forest

Judgment of the feathers wrestled in the leaves

So she climbed the cages to the cooing in the rafters

Unfurled tomorrow's morning with the slipping left to breathe

[Verse 6]

From there it went so easy

So swift, it came undone

As the catch it slips and the rope pulls taut

It all came together with a knot

It all fell together with a knot

[Chorus]

She saved the morning light for her widowmaker

She swept the afternoon with stories in the papers

She made the night long for the newly motherless child

Tomorrow’s motherless child