Birds You Cannot See
From the album Twilight
[INTRO]
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[VERSE 1]
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There are birds in the darkness
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who douse electrical fires
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Flaring up in nursing homes
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and the bedrooms of blind men
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Birds you cannot see
[VERSE 2]
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There are birds in the darkness
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who nest in wooden crutches
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Eye-patches and bandages,
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broken spinal columns,
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pots of withered plants
[CHORUS]
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Birds you cannot see,
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filling every tree,
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falling out of closets
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and perched on the hands of dying men
[VERSE 3]
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There are birds in the darkness
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who lead lost dogs off highways
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Steer boats past icebergs,
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save children stuck in wells
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Birds you cannot see
{VERSE 4]
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There are birds in the darkness
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seen by those with tumors
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circling common light bulbs
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with blue feathered halos
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and the sound of rain
[CHORUS]
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Birds you cannot see,
G C
filling every tree,
G C
falling out of closets
F C G C
and perched on the hands of dying men