We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Unreleased Recordings (2008 - 2015)

by Music for Dead Birds

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

1.
2.
Mongolia 03:53
You were in the auditorium, Singing a choirs verse, Your hair and your nails, Fell out from the curse. The shape of the stars, Like the shape of your heart, Contesting with art, Contesting with art. And I don't want to grow young, In a wasteland no, But all the things that I know, They make me too slow. When it came time for you to run, Just watched the wolves attack, Your lipstick like blood, Discoloring mud. The last time that you cried, Was the last time that you died, For the height of the tide, Just would not subside. And I don't want to grow young, In a wasteland no, But all the things that I know, They make me too slow. Oh girl would you mind, If I took off your belt? You hate the feeling, That you've never felt. I'm caving in, You're caving me out. The sugar would taste sweet, If it didn't taste like meat, Oh the sugar would taste neat, If it didn't taste like...
3.
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 hate something Sit up on the broken branch I could see it, you could see it When it falls it turns to wax 'Cus as mortals we like relaxing I've learned to love something I've learned to hate some
4.
One baby at a time I like the summer wine It's bad but not a crime To not mate in your prime If it tastes like wood, I know it should The barber on your street He cuts his hair for free You're staring at your feet But you don't see any meat Two rings to tie a knot A child God forgot An old man in a cot Get sad when it's too hot If it tastes like wood, I know it should
5.
I am not here all alone, Have somebody on the phone, I feel like getting drunk.
6.
Feed the lions to the lambs for me We stopped trying long before the bee We are strange We can't change Only metal shone bright in sun But if they ask you tell them we had fun We are strange We can't change Hear the fear And I'll stay near Paranoid Empty void
7.
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 To even breath at all or feel this weight of gravity And though the girl was bad I suppose that she helped me We stayed there for a hundred years just eating jellyfish They'd sting us in our eyes and shine electric on our dish And everyday we'd play that game just picking up and throwing rocks Not one of us could find the time to co-ordinate our clocks But then a violent winter morn sent us shaking in our boots The forest that was behind us started lifting from its 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 bear 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
8.
It's 4am it's getting cold The siren sounds and scares the old I am warm and safe inside All the love that I hide Comes out when I fall asleep And dream Jesus loves me now I am bathed in light Beautiful night Everything looks right The kids are hangin' by the square The cops got lost and no-ones there To hear the screams and echoes of All the trees that have fallen down To make crosses on the ground The things I've found Jesus loves me now I am bathed in light Beautiful night Everything looks right Everything looks right
9.
I got a job it didn't pay too well, I started getting high and you could tell. I stopped caring started giving up, My boss said sir you just don't give a fuck, I said "No I don't." And I wonder if there is a job where I, Could just lie back and look up at the sky, Well I guess I could be a birdwatcher.
10.
Don't Change 03:59
We have seen this all before It's not worthwhile anymore Fill me up until I crack Tell me never to come back But wait, don't change 'Cus I feel the same It's a long way home Don't walk alone Feel the fire Your eyes look tired So close them tight Escape the night And at the end of everyday We dream up quiet words to say So tiny Gods can hear us pray Desperate to get away But wait, don't change 'Cus I feel the same It's a long way home Don't walk alone Feel the fire Your eyes look tired Close them tight Escape the night

about

10 tracks from the vault (hard drive). A Christmas present from Music for Dead Birds to you.

Recorded in Westmeath, Mayo, Msida, and Brussels between 2008 and 2015.

credits

released December 17, 2015

All songs written and performed by Music for Dead Birds.

All songs recorded by Music for Dead Birds except track 5 recorded live by West Coast Audio.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Music for Dead Birds Ireland

Quiet/Loud

contact / help

Contact Music for Dead Birds

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Music for Dead Birds recommends:

If you like Music for Dead Birds, you may also like: