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Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics

Artist: Iron & Wine

Album: The Shepherd's Dog

Genre: Folk

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I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your straight light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys

And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
And 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 Bill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat
Cursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Crawl through the wide fence cracks

Kissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures
Thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding
Or lost you American mouth?
Big Bill stuck going down


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  • Anonymous

    This song just makes me cry, it's so beautiful and totally right for the scene in the movie. I also wish I knew what the lyrics mean.... maybe totally dfferent from the emotion it evokes

  • Anonymous

    yea wen i first heard this song i was like this is so cute .....but i looked up the lyrics and gosh wat the heck is this guy talkin about lol

  • Anonymous

    i love this song too its good even tho the lyrics r really weird:) that vamp is gorgeous i would suck his blood anyday

  • Anonymous

    thanks to Twilight..or else i wouldn't know this song exists. But it is a nice beautiful song and of course as everyone says the lyrics are weird. It gives a romantic feeling in the movie's part. it keeps playing in my head.

  • Anonymous

    love this song great choice to put it in the twilight movie ;)

  • Anonymous

    very good melody, but weird lyrics, i wish i knew what it means

  • Anonymous

    this is definitely a weird weird song

  • Anonymous

    this song, which I like both for its strange lyrics and trance like melody, reminds me of a modern day T.S Elliot ; but with ADHD.it isdisjointed and ellusive. Nevertheless, melancholy with a little bit if Southern gothic sweetness. haunting and lamenting.

  • Anonymous

    omg. this is my favorite song. (:

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Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog Album Lyrics
1.Pagan Angel and A Borrowed Car Lyrics
2.White Tooth Man Lyrics
3.Lovesong Of The Buzzard Lyrics
4.Carousel Lyrics
5.House By The Sea Lyrics
6.Innocent Bones Lyrics
7.Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog) Lyrics
8.Resurrection Fern Lyrics
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10.The Devil Never Sleeps Lyrics
11.Peace Beneath The City Lyrics
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