Ominous Bird

from Hold on Too Tight by Schooner

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lyrics

After we opened the door
we stayed around and just laid on the floor,
whispering phrases that laziness raised but would not say what for.
After the luck had been spent
we stumbled out of the room we’d been sent;
all of the world filled with wide open caverns and broken intent.
I was the sound of a surfacing fish and
you were an ominous bird.
Hours and words spent attending to herons and endings on
water where nothing was heard.
And I bathed in the light where you were,
and nothing was heard.
Dangled by lines that we cast
out in a pond that is growing up fast,
bringing the snakes with the grass till the last water turns into gas.
Clouds crept up like silent hands,
they opened a faucet that covered the land;
we scattered off through the puddles so baffled, befuddled, we drowned.
You were the sound of a surfacing fish and
I was an ominous bird.
Hours and words spent attending to herons and endings on
water where nothing was heard.
And I flew over to where you were,
but nothing was heard.

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from Hold on Too Tight, released August 5, 2011

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Schooner Durham, North Carolina

Schooner is disheveled-pop-indie-psych-soul from Durham, NC started by Reid Johnson & now features Joshua Carpenter (Floating Action), Nick Jaeger, Patrick O'Neill, Maria Albani, + a rotating cast of characters.

With its energetic songs and fuzzy guitars, Neighborhood Veins is sure to be an album you won’t stop listening to any time soon.-MAGNET ... more

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