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Everything Is Birds

from Birds and Birds by John Burdick

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Everything is birds
Or so it occurred to the quietly drowning girl
Outside her window, casting a shadow
Hovering arrow to another world
Of which you've only heard

Everything is birds
She said to the nurse who was reading her signs in reverse
And it really was birds in her blood
The tail of a hawk and the auguring of
Something maybe worse

You try to hold her safe but you can't embrace
An armload of wings beating in your face
And beating in her place
I take her at her word: everything is, everything is birds

Everything is birds
Flying in a shape, an approximate human girl
Who was never meant for holding together
Following weather and keeping the ways
Of the universe

You try to hold her safe but you can't embrace
An armload of wings beating in your face
And beating in her place
I take her at her word: everything is, everything is birds

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from Birds and Birds, released August 31, 2021
Written by John Burdick, SpaceBoat Music, ASCAP 2021
Mixed by C.I.T.E
Mastered by Jamal Ruhe
John Burdick: guitars, vocals, keyboards
Laura Stevenson: vocals
C.I.T.E: drums, percussion, sound design
Mark Lerner: bass
Neil Alexander: keyboards

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John Burdick New Paltz, New York

Guitarist, songwriter, and music critic in New York's mid-Hudson valley (New Paltz, Kingston, Woodstock). Leads the Sweet Clementines; works with Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller in Rhett Miller and the All-Stars; performed or recorded with Laura Stevenson, Matt Pond PA, Dean Jones, Grammy winners the Okee Dokee Brothers, many more. Wishes you to tune in to his solo feed. ... more

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