Little flightless metal birds
High above in limbless tree
Ring out into the atmosphere
Creating beauty inadvertentlyIt was a technological featThis little birdWading through the market's waste
We locked eyes felt our lonliness abate
True desire showed its face, but only momentarilyGrey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day awayI bought you from the dying woods of Brazil
This little bird
While the kids burned down the greenhouse pushed the
Charred frame into the landfill
Put his beak to the world
We bought new bodies we bought diamond encrusted guns
So who the hell are you?
Making out so high in the backseat of a car-bomb under carcinogenic sunGrey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day away
Grey cascades in foreign wavesWe did believe in magic we did believe
We let our souls act as canaries
Our hearts gilded cages beWatched a million dimming lanterns float out to sea
Lay your malady at the mouth of the death machineAeroplane odabo
Ba mi ki won lo Odabo
Eko meji, o yo mi
O yo mi
O yo miGrey cascades in foreign waves
Wash the day away
Grey cascades in foreign waves
Songwriters
GERARD A SMITH, JALEEL BUNTON, KYP MALONE, DAVID SITEK, BABATUNDE O ADEBIMPEPublished by
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