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Birds

from Michael by Knock Over City

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Wherein we meet our protagonist.

This song came pretty much fully formed while I was sitting in a dorm room at UMass Amherst. There was a whole long second part which I have since lost and forgotten.

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I was born with two white wings in my spine,
the midwives took them from me, the sky was never mine.
One night my mother, drunk and sad, told me a stranger was my dad.

And my father pushed me inside of her
In a park outside the street
Where the cops found her lying
With her pants around her feet.

She screamed at me one night,
When I was just sixteen.
"If I see your face tomorrow morning
I'll douse it in gasoline.
You've gotta look like him.
Cos you are no part of me."

So I took off to the city
and I slept out in the street.
Wrapped myself in blankets
at the spot I was conceived.

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from Michael, released February 9, 2014

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