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Vitamins

by Music for Dead Birds

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1.
I am forever wasted From all that I have tasted But under the light of a full moon I'll erase all of my gloom Turn me on and then turn me off again As if I'm not a Piscerean I've gone and fallen by the wayside To the only place left to hide now The terror breaths me in Black rainbows on my skin They never dissipate Away Light up a candle in the snow Black tides falling from below I am forever wasted When I realised what the smile on your face meant Tear-drop on my skin again Like the day I saw grey cloud descend To cover up the smiles of the wrong ones What is it I have become now? The terror breaths me in Black rainbows on my skin They never dissipate Away
2.
Dead Pets 03:06
Get lost When your pets are dead And their blood is red But you don;t like blood When your pets are dead And there blood is red And you're so so bored When your pets are dead And they're on your hands You can;t understand I won't be myself around you When your pets are dead and their blood is so red! I won't be myself around you
3.
Magic Witch 02:48
I am the owl that cradles the candle While the storm pushes the rats outside Ugly in the corner where's my rage? Come on look at the mess you've made Where are the beautiful people? Don't let them into the house They can never know our plan Standing in the corner she danced to violence Then she goes and my heart explodes Cut up, cut down and cut me all around Don't let them take you for a ride We have travelled far and wide Only to find I want it
4.
Well the girl was like an apple she was poisoned to the core She asked me if I'd stay 'cus she said she wanted more But I had my objectives of which she wasn't one And by the hour on the clock I had missed the sun So I ran out of her eyes and escaping from her room I found myself in sunshine by the brightness of the moon But everything was dark upon the field because of night And my eyes they were both useless not seeing any sight So I thought about anatomy how we came to be born I struck my final match right upon the farmer's corn And when I heard him coming I started running for my life I knew I'd made an enemy in the farmer and his wife So I sprinted to the village breaking both my shoes And I knew you had to gamble if you ever want to lose My soles they were both talking as we set upon the town The fire in the distance by now was calming down But I heard the farmer roar so I made it to the docks I saw three men play games where they'd just pick up and throw rocks They told me they'd set sail as the hour did begin And as our boat his water I told them of my sin They said they understood the sizing of my strife And they said I should keep running from that farmer and his wife. We anchored on an island that was buried in the sand And though the men were blind they helped me understand How to look at places unobjectively And for the first time in my life I realised how lucky we could be So we stayed there for a hundred years just eating jellyfish They'd sting us in our eyes and shine electric on our dish But then a violent winter morn sent us shaking in our boots The forest that was behind us started lifting from it's roots So we sent our anchor sailing from it's place between the sands Went back to face our fates somewhere on drier lands But those blind men they did trick me yeah they showed me to the girl She had aged so terribly it made the sour milk curl So all up in my anger I made a blade upon my knife And went back to settle scores with the farmer and his wife Well I guess that on the island we had a different view of time 'Cus when I went back to face the scene of my crime The farmer he could not lift a finger up to me In fact just like the sailors well he couldn't even see But he told me he'd forgiven me for setting fire to his corn He said it was the catalyst that had ended all his scorn He said that winter came much colder than it passed And that his wife had fallen ill from the hunger I had massed And that when she finally died he just fed her to the birds She wouldn't bare his child and she's never say kind words Then he thanked me kindly for changing his whole life And funnily enough I became the farmer's wife
5.
It's Fine 03:52
Born In between This world and One unseen You Carried me From the shore To the sea Swimming All the time They can't see Love's blind I'm awake for the first time I can feel now It's fine Torn Torn in two One for me One for you Black And white Colour And Light I'm awake for the first time I can feel now It's fine Take Take me to The place from where Birds flew Down In the well Icy hell I see Close Close my eyes I can see Life's disguise I'm awake for the first time I can feel now It's fine
6.
Churchbells 02:18
Chruchbells sound like war drums In a town where no-one laughs I came back here not long ago Now I wait, can't wait to get back She looked pretty in the summertime But now it's winter and she can't find love I talked to a priest the other day About exactly what it is he does But it's hard to talk to strangers when you're sad Cars speed in the night time In this town where they're so hard But when they die they'll all go to The same graveyard The hospital's closed The river's dry Samantha she wants to cry 'Cus it's hard to talk to strangers when you're sad
7.
If you want to love something Then you should learn to love something You sit upon your broken branch With cinnamon and vitamins And if your darkened fantasies Don;t come true then you'll recede in I've learned to love something Sit up on the broken branch A heavy God likes to relax so We could float all through the air Spread diseases as we care I've learned to love something I've learned to love some Sit up on the broken branch I could see it, you could see it When it falls it burns to wax 'Cus as mortals we like relaxing I've learned to love something I've learned to hate some
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Penitentiary 02:51
Lose my breath, When my body's for sale. In the test of life I fail, And you'll see me in the penitentiary oh yeah that's where I'll be. Only fools and horses work, So I'll take my time, Numb my brain and go bezerk, And you'll see me in the penitentiary oh yeah that's where I'll be. Hold me in the dark, Hold me down forever ever. I know where we are, Falling apart with the weather weather, So tie my shoes, Walk me down to the city city, Pick and choose all the places my mind it should be. Born again, I'm finally free. Smile for, The camera please, When you see me in the penitentiary oh yeah that's where I'll be. Hold me in the dark, Hold me down forever ever. I know where we are, Falling apart with the weather weather, So tie my shoes, Walk me down to the city city, Pick and choose all the places my mind it should be. Shed my skin and watch it fly, I'd rather live you'd rather die, When you see me in the penitentiary oh yeah that's where I'll be.
10.
I could have a better view If I were a part of you But I'm just another one of those and I Fall out of the sky Sitting on an empty chair Turn around there's no-one there What is it that I am to you? Just another point of view? You have a better view when you're high 'Cus there's that big empty crater in the sky And you want it so damn much you can't even try Thinking of another way Thinking of another way Close enough to what it is that you touch Wanting comfort far too much 'Cus You have a better view when you're high And there's that big empty crater in the sky And you want you it so damn much you can't even try

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The third album from West of Ireland duo Music for Dead Birds.
Recorded at DATA Studios, Co. Kerry November 2013.
Released via Ghost Home Recordings.

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released April 17, 2014

Jimmy Monaghan - Guitar, Vocals
Dónal Walsh - Drums

Engineered and mixed by Tadgh Healy.
Mastered by Analog Heart.
Cover Art by Aisling Walsh.

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