Selling Rope (Swan Dive To Estuary) letra

As I swan dive into the estuary, the birds do not flinch at my fall
They perch in the rafters, before, during, after: They do not notice me at all

As I float down into the estuary, wind cases my body in cool
I smell petrol fumes, see the smoke rise in plumes: The Earth is one big fireball
The Earth is one big fireball

Anecdote, lie
My own alibi
I've been telling jokes
Piled notes high
My own alibi
I've been selling rope

As I break the film of the estuary, the seaweed submerges my form
No passing cars stop, not a single jaw drops, as my wallet and keys sink before
A splash all I left in the world

Anecdote, lie
My own alibi
I've been telling jokes
Piled notes high
My own alibi
I've been selling rope

Once held a magpie in the palm of my hand and the blood in our veins flowed faster, as I'd planned
Got a heart full of love and a head full of more but a fist full of threads from the seams
And I saw a smile in that beak

Anecdote, lie
My own alibi
I've been telling jokes
Piled notes high
My own alibi
I've been selling rope

Oh, I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
I've been telling jokes and selling rope to you
Oh, I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
I've been telling jokes and selling rope to you

Oh, I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
I've been telling jokes and selling rope to you
Oh, I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
I've been telling jokes and selling rope to you

There's no ticker-tape, no golden gate
No carnival and no parade
Just one, one for sorrow
There's no ticker-tape, no golden gate
No carnival and no parade
Just one, one for sorrow

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• 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
• Knee Deep At ATP
• 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
• Surfing a Contrail
• 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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• This Is a Flag, There Is No Wind
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• To Hell in a Handjob
• To the Boneyard
• To Tundra
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• We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
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• You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing