Birdland
His father died and left him a little farm in new england.
All the long black funeral cars left the scene
And the boy was just standing there alone
Looking at the shiny red tractor
Him and his daddy used to sit inside
And circle the blue fields and grease the night.
It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
’cause when he looked up they started to slip.
Then he put his head in the crux of his arm
And he started to driftdrift to the belly of a ship
Let the ship slide openand he went inside of it
And saw his daddy ’hind the control board streamin’ beads of light
He saw his daddy ’hind the control board
And he was very different tonight
’cause he was not humanhe was not human.
And then the little boy’s face lit up with such naked joy
That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns
White lidswhite opalsseeing everything just a little bit too clearly
And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight
No black funeral carsnothing except for him the raven
And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out
“nodaddydon’t leave me here alone
Take me updaddyto the belly of your ship
Let the ship slide open and I’ll go inside of it
Where you’re not humanyou are not human.”
But nobody heard the boy’s cry of alarm.
Nobody there ’cept for the birds around the new england farm
And they gathered in all directionslike roses they scattered
And they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting
And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of blake
Grabbing at his cheekstaking out his neck
All his limbseverything was twisted and he said
“i won’t give upwon’t give updon’t let me give up
I won’t give upcome herelet me go up fast
Take me up quicktake me upup to the belly of a ship
And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human.”
I am helium raven and this movie is mine
So he cried out as he stretched the sky
Pushing it all out like latex cartoonam I all alone in this generation ?
We’ll just be dreaming of animation night and day
And won’t let upwon’t let up and I see them coming in
OhI couldn’t hear them beforebut I hear ’em now
It’s a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
Moving in like black shipsthey were moving instreams of them
And he put up his hands and he said“it’s meit’s me
I’ll give you my eyestake me upoh now please take me up
I’m helium raven waitin’ for youplease take me up
Don’t let me here” the sonthe signthe cross
Like the shape of a tortured womanthe true shape of a tortured woman
The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons
No longer presidents but prophets
They’re all dreaming they’re gonna bear the prophet
He’s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation
It’s all gonna split his skull
It’s gonna come out like a black bouquet shining
Like a fist that’s gonna shoot them up
Like lightlike mohammed boxer
Take them up up up up up up
Ohlet’s go upuptake me upI’ll go up
I’m going upI’m going up
Take me upI’m going upI’ll go up there
Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
Upup to the belly of a ship.
Let the ship slide open and we’ll go inside of it
Where we are not humanwe’re not human.
Wellthere was sandthere were tiles
The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated
Like a river of glass
When it hardened he looked at the surface
He saw his face
And where there were eyes were just two white opalstwo white opals
Where there were eyes there were just two white opals
And he looked up and the rays shot
And he saw raven comin’ in
And he crawled on his back and he went up
Up up up up up up
Sha da do wopda shaman do waysha da do wopda shaman do way
Sha da do wopda shaman do waysha da do wopda shaman do way
Sha da do wopda shaman do way
We like birdland.
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