Birdland - Original Hit Recordings

His father died and left him a little farm in New England
 All the long black funeral cars left the scene
 And the boy was just standin' there alone
 Lookin' at the shiny red tractor
 Him and his daddy used to sit inside
 And circle the blue fields and grease the night
 It was as if someone had spread butter
 On all the fine points of the stars
 'Cause when he looked up, they started to slip
 Then he put his head in the crux of his arms
 And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship
 Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it
 And saw his daddy 'hind the control boards
 Streamin' beads of light
 He saw his daddy 'hind the control board
 And he was very different tonight
 'Cause he was not human, he was not human
 The little boy's face lit up with such a naked joy
 That the sun burned around his lids
 And his eyes were like two suns
 White lids, white opals, seein' everything
 Just a little bit too clearly
 And he looked around and
 There was no black ship in sight
 No black funeral cars, nothin'
 Except for him, the raven
 And fell on his knees and
 Looked up and cried out
 "No, Daddy, don't leave me here alone
 Take me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship
 Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it
 Where you are not human, you are not human"
 But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm
 Nobody there 'cept for the birds
 Around the New England farm
 And they gathered in all directions
 Like roses they scattered
 And they were like compass grass
 Coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
 Slit in his nose and all the others went shootin'
 And he saw the lights of traffic beckonin' him
 Like the hands of blake
 Grabbin' at his cheeks, takin' out his neck
 All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said
 ? I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up
 I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast
 Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship"
 And the ship slides open and I go inside of it
 Where I am not human
 I am helium raven and this movie is mine
 So he cried out as he stretched the sky
 Pushin' it all out like latex cartoon
 Am I all alone in this generation?
 We'll just be dreamin' of animation night and day
 And won't let up, won't let up and I see them comin' in
 Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now
 It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
 Movin' in like black ships, they were movin' in, streams of them
 And he put up his hands and he said,? It's me, it's me
 I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up
 I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, please take me up
 Don't leave me here"
 The son, the sign, the cross
 Like the shape of a tortured woman
 The true shape of a tortured woman
 The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her sons
 No longer presidents but prophets
 They're all dreamin', they're gonna bear the prophet
 He's gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation
 It's all gonna split his skull
 It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin'
 Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up
 Like light, like Mohammed boxer
 Take them up up up up up up
 Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me back
 Take me up, I'll go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up
 Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, tell
 Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
 Up, up, to the belly of a ship
 Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it
 Well, we are not human, we're not human
 Well, there was sand, there were tiles
 The sun had melted the sand
 And it coagulated like a river of glass
 When it hardened, he looked at the surface
 He saw his face and where there were eyes
 Were just two white opals, two white opals
 Where there were eyes, there were just two white opals
 He looked up and the rays shot
 And he saw raven comin' in
 And he crawled on his back and he went up
 Up up up up up up
 Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
 Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
 Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
 Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
 Shaman do wop, da shaman do way
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