The Black Bird, The Dark Slope letra

The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
But the brushstrokes feel like hearth pokes into my skin

The black bird feasts upon my guts and bears its beak to fight
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
Now they poke between my teeth and that's why i thirst

When he flies me to the top there's nothing but the fog
A heart of stone, egg shell for bones, they lead you to be lost
The dark slope drags you down
The black bird is a part of me, so sad to see
So sad to be me

I ask before i go for you to drop a lit match down my throat
And smoke the bastard out or burn him to a crisp
Cause i'm already carrion, been eaten from the inside too long
This black bird wants to rip me limb from limb
The black bird dips its beak in blood and writes its thoughts in cursive 'cross
The bones that are its jailer and my ribcage
And when you turn me inside out, believe in me without a doubt
The words were all of his and none of mine

When he flies me to the top there's nothing but the fog
A heart of stone, egg shell for bones, they lead you to be lost
The dark slope drags you down
The black bird is a part of me, so sad to see
So sad to be me

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• ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison
• (PLAN A)
• 0898 HEARTACHE
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• 2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)
• 5 Flucloxacillin
• A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State
• A Litany / Heart Swells
• A Portrait of The Trequartista As A Young Man
• A Psychic Wound
• A Slow, Slow Death
• Adult Acne Stigmata
• All Your Kayfabe Friends
• Allez Les Blues
• As Lucerne The Low
• Avocado, Baby
• Baby I Got The Death Rattle
• Between An Erupting Earth And An Exploding Sky
• Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
• By Your Hand
• C Is The Heavenly Option
• Cemetery Gaits
• Clown Blood; or, Orpheus’ bobbing Head
• Coda: A Burn Scar In The Shape Of The Sooner State
• Death To Los Campesinos!
• Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1
• Don't Tell Me To do The Math(s)
• Drop It Doe Eyes
• Dumb Luck
• Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions)
• Feast of Tongues
• For Flotsam
• For Whom The Belly Tolls
• Four Seasons
• Frontwards
• Glue Me
• Got Stendhal's
• Hate For The Island
• Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time
• Hello Sadness
• Here's To The Fourth Time
• Holy Smoke (2005)
• How I Taught Myself to Scream
• Hung Empty
• I Broke Up In Amarante
• I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
• I Warned You: Do Not Make An Enemy Of Me
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• In Medias Res
• It Started With A Mixx
• It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)
• kms
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• Let it Spill
• Letters from me to charlotte (RSVP)
• Life Is a Long Time
• Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. I
• Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II
• Little Mouth
• Long Throes
• Miserabilia
• Moonstruck
• Music for Aerial Toll House
• My Year In Lists
• Renato Dall'Ara (2008)
• Romance is Boring
• Romance Is Boring (Princess Version)
• Sad Suppers
• Selling Rope (Swan Dive To Estuary)
• She Crows (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #4)
• Songs About Your Girlfriend
• Straight in at 101
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• Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks
• The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
• The Coin-Op Guillotine
• The End Of The Asterisk
• The Fall Of Home
• The International Tweexcore Underground
• The Order of the Seasons
• The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
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• There are Listed Buildings
• This Is a Flag, There Is No Wind
• This Is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And The Dreams Of A Generation Of Faux-Romantics"
• Tiptoe Through The True Bits
• To Hell in a Handjob
• To the Boneyard
• To Tundra
• Ways To Make It Through The Wall
• We Are All Accelerated Readers
• We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
• We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
• We’ve Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
• What Death Leaves Behind
• Who Fell Asleep In
• You! Me! Dancing!
• You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing