Birdland-Patti Smith

[ti:Birdland] [ar:Patti Smith] [al:Land 1975-2002] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.63]Artist：patti smith [00:04.26]Songs Title：birdland [00:25.99]His father died and left him a little farm in New England [00:37.65]All the long black funeral cars left the scene [00:40.66]And the boy was just standing there alone [00:43.52]Looking at the shiny red tractor [00:45.16]Him and his daddy used to sit inside [00:48.96]And circle the blue fields and grease the night [00:55.06]It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars [00:59.46]'Cause when he looked up they started to slip [01:04.53]Then he put his head in the crux of his arm [01:09.64]And he started to drift drift to the belly of a ship [01:22.76]Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it [01:34.31]And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light [01:46.12]He saw his daddy 'hind the control board [01:53.24]And he was very different tonight [01:58.06]'Cause he was not human he was not human [02:23.62]And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy [02:27.87]That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns [02:32.55]White lids white opals seeing everything just a little bit too clearly [02:37.51]And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight [02:41.52]No black funeral cars nothing except for him the raven [02:45.51]And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out [02:52.30]O daddy don't leave me here alone [03:02.54]Take me up daddy to the belly of your ship [03:14.37]Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it [03:26.05]Where you're not human you are not human [03:51.55]But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm [04:03.88]Nobody there 'cept for the birds around the New England farm [04:07.70]And they gathered in all directions like roses they scattered [04:11.38]And they were like compass grass coming together [04:14.09]Into the head of a shaman bouquet [04:16.21]Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting [04:19.28]And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake [04:22.84]Grabbing at his cheeks taking out his neck [04:25.53]All his limbs everything was twisted and he said [04:28.29]Won't give up won't give up don't let me give up [04:32.04]I won't give up come here let me go up fast [04:35.60]Take me up quick take me up up to the belly of a ship [04:48.00]And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human [05:23.46]I am helium raven and this movie is mine [05:27.60]So he cried out as he stretched the sky [05:30.34]Pushing it all out like latex cartoon am I all alone in this generation [05:36.31]We'll just be dreaming of animation night and day [05:40.66]And won't let up won't let up and I see them coming in [05:44.65]Oh I couldn't hear them before but I hear 'em now [05:47.84]It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights [05:52.00]Moving in like black ships they were moving in streams of them [05:55.76]And he put up his hands and he said It's me it's me [05:59.75]I'll give you my eyes take me up oh now please take me up [06:04.87]I'm helium raven waitin' for you please take me up [06:09.50]Don't let me here the son the sign the cross [06:13.01]Like the shape of a tortured woman [06:15.71]The true shape of a tortured woman [06:17.70]The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons [06:20.83]No longer presidents but prophets [06:23.64]They're all dreaming they're gonna bear the prophet [06:27.79]He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation [06:31.28]It's all gonna split his skull [06:33.28]It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shining [06:36.52]Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up [06:39.26]Like light like Mohammed Boxer [06:42.51]Take them [06:43.08]Oh let's go up up take me up I'll go up [06:46.08]I'm going up I'm going up [06:47.40]Take me up I'm going up I'll go up there [06:49.46]Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up [06:53.82]Up up to the belly of a ship [07:03.82]Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it [07:15.42]Where we are not human we're not human [07:40.99]Well there was sand there were tiles [07:45.99]The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated [07:48.85]Like a river of glass [07:51.59]When it hardened he looked at the surface [07:54.84]He saw his face [07:56.65]And where there were eyes were just two white opals [08:00.28]Two white opals [08:02.03]Where there were eyes there were just two white opals [08:07.83]And he looked up and the rays shot [08:13.47]And he saw raven comin' in [08:20.91]And he crawled on his back and he went up [08:26.07]Up up [08:38.82]Sha da do wop da shaman do way [08:50.23]Sha da do wop da shaman do way [09:01.79]Sha da do wop da shaman do way [09:13.21]Sha da do wop da shaman do way [09:23.97]We like birdland