Bird Stealing Bread Lyrics
Are you still on the stoop
Watching the windows close?
I've not seen you lately
On the street, by the beach
Or places we used to go
I've a picture of you
On our favorite day by the seaside
There's a bird stealing bread
That I brought out from under my nose
Tell me, baby, tell me
Does his company make
Light of a rainy day?
How I've missed you lately
And the way you would speak
And all that we wouldn't say
Do his hands in your hair
Feel a lot like a thing you believe in?
Or a bit like a bird stealing bread
Out from under your nose?
Tell me, baby, tell me
Do you carry the words
Around like a key or change?
I've been thinking lately
Of a night on the stoop
And all that we wouldn't say
On the street, by the beach
In the evening
Will you fly like a bird stealing bread
Out from under my nose?
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Beam listed “Bird Stealing Bread” as a favorite of his in an interview with Vulture:
I put that one on the list because, in my memory, as far as all those batches of songs, it seemed like it just popped out of the environment [where] I was living — Miami, maybe two blocks from the beach, writing these songs. I learned a couple seventh chords, and I was obsessed with the overdubbing with the harmonies and things with the recording, just getting a grasp of those things. And I was obsessed with my romantic life [Laughs.] The beach just popped into my head because I heard it every day; I smelled it and heard it and felt it every day. It feels like a time capsule to me because of everything, where I was living and what I was thinking about, and all those things coalesce in this song in some way.
- 1.Lion’s Mane
- 2.Bird Stealing Bread
- 9.Weary Memory
- 11.Muddy Hymnal
