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Floating Feather

by Fox and the Bird

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1.
How still the air is How cold the night? How clear the sky is with its stars shining so bright These thoughts I have are keeping me awake I breathe the air in, feel my heart pound and try not to think about letting myself down These thoughts I have are keeping me awake I wanted loneliness, some place to hide but I didn't know how bitter I'd grown inside How do I know when my time is up?
2.
Mister Winter do you make a lot of friends? cause I know plenty that can’t take your bitter wind you’ve got a bitter wind Mister Winter have you ever been in love? cause you stay so high in your clouds up above up above But don’t go cause she says she’s coming back when it snows and I’m counting on you to bring her home You’ve got to be honest, are you jealous of the spring? All of hope and love and life that it can bring, that it can bring What about the summer and the sun and all its grace? All of the hope and life it brings upon my face, Upon my face But don’t go cause she says she’s coming back when it snows and I’m counting on you to bring her home
3.
I’ve been making time with a floating feather I walk home alone with you in the manner I’m accustomed to All the words you bring they make me fall to pieces The city drains our white-washed walls until the final bottle falls I’ve been learning things I’ve always known by heart Alone in my sleep, they say the devil runs that deep And so I learn to take a leap of faith I’ve been wasting time on our conversations It doesn’t matter where you’ve been as long as you come back again The days are long, the nights are raw and grueling It could take forever now to find the life you read about It’s back to talk of things we’ve never known at all It’s just like you heard, you take the fox and the bird And try to make them friendly for a day I’m always wasting time with this floating feather I walk home alone with you in the manner I’ve grown accustomed to All the words you bring they make me fall to pieces The city workers can’t fill in this hole that you and I’ve been digging We’re always wanting things we’ll never have, not at all It’s just like you’ve heard, you take the fox and the bird And try to make them friendly for a day So run if you must chasing after some lust And wait to turn back to dust
4.
There’s women in the kitchen, slaving on account of the fall I watch them washing dishes and taking all my telephone calls Sir I’m sorry but he’s busy, he’ll call you when he’s ready to talk The gents are in the parlor, the tramps are up against the wall They’re harboring the fugitives and soaking them in alcohol And striking up a match you start to think you didn’t want it at all But it gives me a reason to be, it gives me a reason to try It gives me a reason and I don’t really want to know why Now there’s ice in the desert and there's sand in the polar bear’s way We used to see rainbows but nowadays it’s nothing but rain And when I went to see the sun, I was confronted and I hurried away But it gave me a reason to be, it gave me a reason to try It gave me a reason and I don’t really want to know why And I say everything will be okay But nothing’s going to be
5.
Ghost 03:25
I'm nothing but a ghost with skin and teeth and bones floating through walls and hearts with ease I'm nothing but a ghost with lips and eyes and hands never knowing where I stand and I needed this just break my heart something like this to fall apart such a pretty girl so I don't mind to pick the pieces up and make you mine I'm nothing but a ghost with heart and soul clinging to the emptiness of it all I'm nothing but a ghost with a resolute mind to hold onto anything solid that I can back to the start now breathe in breathe out wrap your mind inside itself make believe that you're here right now just to prove that you exist Is this really as hard as I make it back and forth what matters most something tells me that I'm not much different than every other ghost You've become just a ghost inside my head
6.
Oldest Old 03:35
Sad to say, I see a lot of anger here it makes compassion disappear and helps me stay so far away But hopefully we’re not the type of men as we have seen in generations past, the kind that live and die so fast An ancient struggle has become the loneliest heartache An ancient cycle is now our first and last mistake For the oldest old of the newest born couldn’t ever know how the earth was formed from the saddest deaths bloody aftermath, to the poorest peasant birth to the men that fought and died to conquer earth Fossilized, we strain to open up our eyes and see the way things used to be we dig too far in history And there exposed, our heartless, faithless cousins go to wash and wash repeatedly but in their eyes ourselves we see ... and the way we laughed when the world collapsed and we’re left with childbirth and the song we sang, penned in father’s name but we swore we wrote it first to the men who fought and died to conquer earth
7.
Rome 04:01
Somewhere in the eastern hills, With changing leaves and ripened harvest fields, A fading women lived alone. She was skin and bones. Before they dug her grave, When her manuscripts had been bound and saved, Her final words were spoken slow: "I’ll never leave my home. This is my home because I call it home, And it'll burn like Rome before I go." How to justify my eyes? Cold and simple, drifting as the crow flies "Let me go to where I will, And let the earth stand still." But who am I to fly? Have I no task to keep me by her side? When all I see is all I know, I want to know my own. This is my home because I call it home, And it'll burn like Rome before I go. Don’t act as if it’s all or none. I won’t find my place just by crossing oceans And I won’t be guiltless if I run, 'Cause this is my home.
8.
Old Mother 03:25
Our old mother speaks from the badlands, parched and dry from the worst words of man Our old mother speaks Our old mother speaks through a thunderous roll of a city on a hill in a story I was told, Where a garden had grown but now where the hell did it go? By lock and key confined, now we have gone and lost our minds Our old mother speaks She’s wailing and screaming "don’t you leave me here all alone" No longer believing they will wrench this love from our fingers dead and cold Our old mother walks through the culdesacs She’s calling our names but were not going back Our cages are built far from where our fathers had knelt and we will great the sun, long after our sweet mother has gone Our old mother speaks Our father of the sand, they’re fragments that were left of that man All men must live and die but death is now just sand in my eyes
9.
Living in and out of all these suitcase towns for way too long, I’m just trying to figure out where I belong I wrote you a letter, I drew you a picture of the ocean and the land, I’m in love with the view but I’m more in love with you Never mind my traveling bones Never mind my restless soul I’m coming home for the view Consequently could you take this wayward boy from long ago? I swear to you I’ve got nowhere left to go Mornings will be kind as secretly we live somewhere beyond the city line, I’m in love with the view but I’m more in love with you Will this city girl take this wayward boy from long ago? When the morning comes I’ll be standing outside your door With my patience thin I’m praying to God that you will let me in
10.
I believe you but you speak unclear, a foreign tongue or a pitiful tear But now at last it is obvious where we go when we’re grown God I wish I was living alone God is turning me to stone So sad but that’s the way it goes It’s like a wrecking ball upon your heart Where the world just spins and falls apart There’s a stranger in my kitchen, he is begging and pleading "use your own two feet or else the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker will make a fool of you and me" I believe you but your hands they shake What does this bloody knife indicate? I will tell them you were here with me whenever you disappear But it would feel like I’m living a lie God is turning me around So glad that all of you found out Where I’ve been spending all my time This little hole where I abide There’s a camera that is filming all the way from the beginning as you enter stage left But as you review the footage it is obviously missing Where the shots connect Your ringing throat, your bloodshot eyes Your cradled hands, the look of surprise The stranger steps, you let him die But we won’t know, cause you can’t live a lie
11.
Hey Sister 06:09
They say that we built this country They say that we built this town But now that we've built our homes here They say that they’ll tear them down Darling I’ll take my beating And then I’ll take my rest You know that I’ll take most anything Because I take it best Hey sister, where’d you come from? Hey sister, where’d you go? Hey sister, where’d you come from? And where are you going when you go? With a name like coyote With enemies like these With a peace like a faucet I keep shaking in my knees While I don’t want to lose you I just don’t care if I win That’s why I sit around and wait That’s why I sit around and grin When we were all out of whiskey When we were all out of time She put her toes in the desert I put my toes on the line She would not see responses To all the letters she wrote Because I was building a fire And I was building a home

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Floating Feather is the debut album of Fox and the Bird, with songs by the five songwriters that have contributed to the band over the years. The album is an amalgamation of folk/roots songs with poignant lyrics and vocal driven melodies.

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released July 29, 2011

Produced by: Daniel t. Hall
Engineered by: Paul West & Daniel Hall
Mixed by: Paul West
Mastered by: Justin Collins

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Fox and the Bird Dallas, Texas

Fox and the Bird is a folk-pop band hailing from Dallas, TX with gang vocals and layered harmonies. The band is a choral collective that's seen a rotating cast of 15 songwriters & members since they hit the scene in 2008. They continue to produce and self-release its albums, touring from time to time and always committed to music that is made on back porches, in living rooms and on the streets. ... more

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