Iron and Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics

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I was a quick wet boy*
Diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down

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Anonymous

hey this is joanna love this song love twilight love rob pattinson!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im also a ballerina n have been dancing for 25 years and every year i do a ballet solo in our summer shows and this year my pointe solo is to iron n wines flightless bird american mouth! first time i heard this song i knew it was perfect! everytime i practice everyone @ my studio cries because its such a beautiful song and a great dance as well!!
Anonymous

its a very beautiful song..nearly cried..lol..i listened to it over n over again..go TWILIGHT
Anonymous

I had no clue what the words were except for the chorus but I HAD to buy the Twilight soundtrack because of this song. Now that I know what they are and I really don't care! It totally fits the scene, the whole soundtrack is excellent. I have a very eclectic taste in music and probably would never have found some of the bands otherwise. total twilight fanatic....... waiting with bated breath till Nov. 20th.........
Anonymous

the lyrics has double meaning.. read it deeply..

-- manwolf of Tacloban City
Anonymous

I has never heard this song before until my cousin chose this song for the first dance at my wedding, lol. Now I can't get it out of my head.
Anonymous

Another case of a beautiful song with lyrics possibly inspired by love, life or drugs...LOL

Yeah, another Twilighter here...

But this song inspired me to buy the album their album. We will see how that turns out...
Anonymous

does anyone know what this song suppose to mean. is there a story here or is it just a bunch of words that sound great together

total twilight geek as well=)
Anonymous

This song is amazing, and at first I didn't know what the lyrics ment, and it was a jumble of words, but I understand.
This was the perfect song for the prom scene in Twilight!
Kristen Stewart knows her music! :D
Anonymous

If this song was not being played at the most romantic scene of the twilight movie, (I wanted to be bitten by Edward) I would think that this is one of the most rediculous songs i have ever heard. But due to the movie twilight, I listen to it over/over again still - going on 4 months, i have had the soundtrack - I listen to it daily. Total twilight Geek, I am.
Anonymous

The words are so funky, but the melody so beautiful.
Anonymous

this song is so pretty i love it
CiciLuvspink

I love this song!

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