 Genius Lyrics
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Birdy – Wings
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“Wings” is the lead single off of Birdy’s second album Fire Within. It was commercially successful, especially in Europe.
The song is about longing
Speaking to the Daily Mail
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22-pistepirkko – Birdy
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Here comes my darling / Saying hello you / Hey why you look so worried / What's so wrong with you / I felt something evil / Lying in my room / It makes me really scared / Don't you
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Birdy – Evergreen
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[Verse 1] / Nobody knows my love / Nobody knows my love / In the gods, we hide away / Nobody ever looks up / Like the heavy summer haze / I don't see past my love / [Verse 2] / He
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Birdy – Surrender
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[Verse 1] / Strange, this wilderness inside / The heart drifts from hot to cold / You think it can't make up its mind / And suddenly it's always known / Suddenly it's always known
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Pamungkas – Birdy
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[Verse 1] / Birdy in my heart / That wants flock it back / Maybe it's too noble, as your body double / We can't seem to be seen as a being or sad tambourine / Maybe it's for the
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Birdy – Skinny Love
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“Skinny Love” is a song originally released by the indie-folk band Bon Iver in 2007. A cover version by Birdy was released in 2011.
This was Birdy’s debut single and charted at #1
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Ween – Little Birdy
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[Intro] / Oh, little birdy / Oh, little birdy / [Verse 1] / I saw the little birdy sing / He sang with glee and everything / He sang for spring, and sang for me / And everything
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Birdy – Young Heart
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[Verse 1] / I have to say goodbye for now / It doesn't mean that I don't love you anymore / I'm still a young heart / There's so much I don't know / And I'm changing / [Verse 2
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Birdy – Your Arms
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[Verse 1] / Who could say what would follow / Big holes in the dark / I couldn't say where you'd gone to / But every night I would ask / [Pre-Chorus] / When hope went away / I
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Birdy – Wild Horses
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[Verse 1] / I'm a dreamer / But it's hard to sleep when your head's not in it / I've been restless / Cause you disappeared and that's all that's missing / The Earth is loose under
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Birdy – Paradise Calling
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[Verse 1] / Riding high / When I was your star, mmm / Lightning strikes / Right at the heart, mmm / [Chorus] / Paradise calling / All I've ever wanted was / Something to believe in
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Conway the Machine – Birdy
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[Verse 1] / Look / I'll bust a niggas shit wide open / Blick the 5th / The pussy nigga laying stiff / With his eyes open / Griselda Bitch you know what's up / K bullets flip your
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Birdy – People Help the People
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“People Help the People” was the second single taken from Cherry Ghost’s début album, Thirst for Romance.
English musician Birdy recorded a cover version of the song, which was
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Birdy – Not About Angels
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Birdy’s song which was used for The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack.
In this mature song she shows at loss.
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Birdy – Portraits
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[Verse 1] / Writin' you down like you're mine on the lines of my body / Call me obsessed, but I'd die if you were to speak to me / (Dance some more, dance some more, dance some
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Birdy – Heartbreaker
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[Intro] / (Ayy-oh, ayy-oh) / (Ayy-oh, ayy-oh) / Ayy-oh, ayy-oh, oh / Ayy-oh, ayy-oh, oh / [Verse 1] / Feel like I've been reading you wrong / And we've tilted from where we started
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Lucy Loone – Lil Birdy
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[Chorus] / A little birdie told me she told me to be free / A little birdie told me fuck the rules do as you please / A little birdie told me-ee-ee yeah / A little birdie talk to
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Birdy – Beautiful Lies
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According to Birdy, the title track and closer of her 2016 album Beautiful Lies is also its most intimate:
She says that the song “is important to me because it is the most
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Birdy – Raincatchers
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[Verse 1] / Baring my soul to you / And here comes the rain again / Once the weight of the world was a feather / Sweet innocence / There is a dusty room / Kept for a friend / You
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Birdy – The Otherside
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[Verse] / Autumn days, the doors you face / They're never gone, you never cry / But if your bridge ever falls, if it does / If it does, I'll catch you, babe / I will / Autumn fires
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Birdy – Keeping Your Head Up
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“Keeping Your Head Up” was released on January 1st, 2016, but her team posted the news on Birdy’s official website by mistake early. The post said:
Hey!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I’ve
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Birdy – No Angel
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[Verse 1] / Remember once the things you told me / And how the tears ran from my eyes / They didn't fall because it hurt me / I just hate to see you cry / Sometimes I wish we could
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Birdy – Words As Weapons
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[Verse 1] / I feel your knife as it goes right in / Cut to my core but I'm not bleeding / All that you say tryin' to make me small / Well the bigger you get the harder you fall / [
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Birdy – Words
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[Verse 1] / Waiting on you / Trying to keep your head strong / With nothing to lose / You raise your voice with something to prove / And all the things you say to me / I can't
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Birdy – Voyager
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[Verse 1] / Watching satellites, lying in the grass / I know our days are numbered, but you don't know that I feel like that / You don't hear solitude, calling me away / And the
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Birdy – Ruins II
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[Verse 1] / Say what you want to / Never cared much for talking (Blah, blah, blah, blah) / Watching the walls move / And all our secrets coming out / What's left between us? (Blah
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Birdy – Unbroken
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One of the most hopeful tracks on Beautiful Lies, Birdy addresses how even though humans can be in pain, they’re still able to rely on things waiting for them that make them happy
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Birdy – Quietly Yours
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White sails and off shore lights / We were passing ships in the night / Now I’m tracing shadows on your back / Like I dreamt so many times / Oh for so long I’ve been waiting / For
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Birdy – Shelter
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This song is about a woman experiencing a new emotion and having the want and desire for people to be able to understand them.
It’s about feeling the need to be with someone and
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Birdy – Winter
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[Verse 1] / It's so cold, baby, it's dark outside / Winter comes creeping in through the night / And it's so hard when I just wanna hold you tight / Breaks my heart, but nothing
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Birdy – Just a Game
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I don’t know where I am / I don’t know this place / Don’t recognize anybody / Just the same old empty face / See these people, they lie / And I don’t know who to believe anymore
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Birdy – Deep End
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[Verse 1] / Someone told me that I’ll want more / That I'll feel half empty, ripped and torn / They say there'll be plenty other hands to hold / Now I wish they'd told me long ago
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Birdy – Lifted
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[Verse 1] / Bound to this lonely road / You gave me hope / Gave me hope / Woke my drifting soul / And led me home / Led me home / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Won't you just stay here? / Chase
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Birdy – Battlefield
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[Verse 1] / I could brace, I could brace hard / Brace my heart for the big cut / I don't want, I don't want to, my love / I just want you to stay / [Verse 2] / Tried to keep you in
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Steeleye Span – Bonny Birdy
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O it's of a knight on a summer's night / Was riding o'er the lee, diddle / There he spied a bonny bird / Sitting upon a tree. Singing: / "Wow for the day! / An gin it for the day
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Birdy – Blue Skies
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[Chorus] / Blue skies smiling at me / Nothing but blue skies, all I see / Bluebirds singing a song / Nothing but blue skies, from now on / [Verse] / I never saw the sun shining so
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Birdy – Silhouette
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[Verse 1] / There are shadows in my dreams / Storms that steer me out of reach / And you just wait on my defeat / Hmm, hmm / So I built an army underneath / And now they guard me
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Birdy – Let Her Go
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[Verse 1] / Staring at the bottom of your glass / Hoping one day you'll make a dream last / But dreams come slow and they go so fast / You see him as you close your eyes / Maybe
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Birdy – Start Again
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[Verse 1] / Tidal wave, tidal wave / Take it all, take it all / And I don't care anymore / You can lie, all you like / All it's done is make me fight / And shake the truth inside
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Birdy – All About You
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Ninth song on Birdy’s Fire Within.
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Birdy – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
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Smeared black ink / Your face is ashen and I'm barely listening / To last demands / I'm staring at the asphalt wondering / What's buried underneath / Where I am / Where I am / I'll
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Birdy – Loneliness
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[Intro] / Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / [Verse 1] / It's getting hard to hide this tainted lullaby / I'm talking in my sleep / The sky is falling down / It's getting closer now / It's getting
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Birdy – Ruins I
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[Verse 1] / Sweet surrender comes / After the dawn / We knew it was over long before / Don't look over your shoulder as you go / Dreams we made like grains of sand / You built me
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Birdy – Growing Pains
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[Verse 1] / Trying to change your mind is like the weather / And you don't make my heart beat like you used to / I've been waiting for a sign / You've been saving all your lines
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