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Solemn Bird

from A Mouth May Grow by red steppes

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lyrics

Come down from your ghostly perch
silver poplar, and congress of birch
Solemn bird, come down

Be a man who will not be cowed
a man with soft hands and a rubbery mouth
When one branch of the birch must be bowed
allow one banch to be bent, and one to be proud.

I take my sip from the fissured bell
I take what hits I can, and I raise my hell
Only time will tell which is free.

You take your sip from the lion's maw
You peck at his black lip, and you steal his barbed tongue
See what strange, strange harm a small bird has done.

Be a man who will not be feared
with a nest in your great russet beard
with a flush on your chest, and fierce cheer
and soft flesh where a feather once reared

Oh, my dear
be near

Bear away your gifts and your body of half-baked clay
Bear away your bottles of whistling beer
I am only a slip of myself just yet
you are only a faint frontier.

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from A Mouth May Grow, released May 11, 2018

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red steppes is a project by Californian songwriter and visual artist Nika Aila States.

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