Birds With Broken Wings - Ben Caplan

Bring me birds with broken wings, men with all the answers

People who have killed, give me incurable cancers

Bring me beaches slicked in oil, give me disregard for doubt

Street lights shine on broken roads where no one is about

I want that hopeless green depression, punishments without a cause

Give me impotent obsession, and disregard for laws

I want the trees in single file, bring the corpse of something rare

Show me children who are sinners, show me mounds of human hair

I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son

An angel tried to stop me with a ram

Well he said «Your mind’s infected», but I said «You lack perspective»

You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top

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Da da da da, la da da da, la da da da La da da da

Give me poison I can swim in, water I can’t drink

Wheels that won’t stop spinning, teach my children not to think

I want the fruit that tastes like nothing, extra thumbs for every crook

Give me lessons without questions, a mild disdain for books

Give me metaphors unraveled, poetry defined

Bring me the head of Dionysius but please don’t spill out the wine

Trade the future for the present, trade me ashes for my history

I don’t need to look inside, I know the answer to the mystery

I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son

An angel tried to stop me with a ram

Well he said «Your mind’s infected», but I said «You lack perspective»

You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top

La da da da, la da da da, la da da da La da da da da

Da da da da, la da da da, la da da da La da da da

Oh I know they call me crazy

There will be no turning back

I don’t care if things get ugly

Once the word of god is spoken

There’s no way to take it back

I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son

An angel tried to stop me with a ram

Well he said «Your mind’s infected», but I said «You lack perspective»

You gotta walk the bottom if you wanna see the top