Name: Bird-Shaped Pastry For The Birds
Duration: P00H02M10S
Description: In Nana Gilmore's kitchen, we made these offerings for all the winged things that came out of the air to feed on the lawn.

Bird-Shaped Pastry For The Birds

from The Inseparable Santa Sprees by Santa Sprees

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In Nana Gilmore's kitchen, we made these offerings for all the winged things that came out of the air to feed on the lawn.

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Fumbling forming beaks and wings
Dusting glazed feathers in the baking tin
I'm making bird-shaped pastry for the birds
Were likenesses in those shapes discenred?
What did them sparrows learn
From eating rough, sweet profile bird-shaped pastry
For the birds?

Don't matter what you have in your hand
You can't remake what you had in your head
Lost notions now plainly absurd
Bird-shaped pastry for the birds
Should I relent? Should I stand firm?
Should I give in and give them worms?
Them testing shapes that they deserve
Bird-shaped pastry for the birds

Feeling peckish on the garden bath
Draining tap water from the cracked bird bath
They're checking bird-shaped pastry for the birds
One finch looked shocked but my belief held firm
That bird shapes are better than worms
They're eating bird-shaped pastry for the birds

I guess we'll never know
If the juice overflowed from my heart and my lungs
And I bottled it up and when back it among
The Saturdays of yore when I threw on the lawn
Would I relent? Would I stand firm?
Would I give in and give them worms?
Them testing shapes that they deserve
Bird-shaped pastry for the birds

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from The Inseparable Santa Sprees, released September 7, 2023
written by Anthony Dolphin
recorded at Silver Loft, Kita Kogane
February 2001

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The Anglo-Japanese band Santa Sprees have been advancing the art of unpopular song since 1994. Making questionable progress from the low-skilled, no-fidelity, no wave of their earliest cassettes to the largely futile primitive avant bubblegum of today, releasing ten collections to date on a trail of defunct labels and media. ... more

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