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The Birds

by Beechlord

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1.
Albatross 02:06
It was very much an albatross Unwieldly, paste in color, with a sweaty shine Sincere, beady eyes, gauntly centered on a big face And a confused frown for a beak Silence loud as an aluminum pretzel bag I don't know who kissed who, But it was like there was a wriggling fish between our mouths It was very much an albatross Call it your favorite type of excess Call it what you will Call it your favorite type of excess A cheap thrill The way you beckoned me The way your head fell strangely on my lap Were you asleep? She was very much an albatross The way she tasted good The way she tasted You called it your favorite type of excess Call it what you will I'm afraid I can't hang You're so uphill But you're asleep in my arms And I'm rocking to the beat The logic of transitions Your head is in my lap And you're feigning asleep And I can't breath
2.
Palo Alto 04:39
When I think of Letting go When I think of Letting go I don't The golden hills The anxious pills This is not a train song Though it may shake like one This is not a rain song The rain never comes If you ask me Where I'm from If you ask me Where I'm from I'll say I'm from Nearby San Francisco This is not a train song We all know the sound This is not a rain song The hills aren’t gold they’re brown I don't want to feel ashamed To call my home by its name We can blame front lawns and rap songs and education But home is not to blame I'm from Palo Alto I grew up in Palo Alto The skyline view Cal Avenue This is not a train song The chain link fence The penny on the track It never made sense And grass itch and basil and pine nuts and soap and ping pong When I think of home I think of kick ball When I think of home I think of the light In the summer At 7pm And the clouds we discovered Were moving When I think of home I think of the Jay’s collide The cracked window I don't think of suicide And catching the football Mom in the kitchen blaring NPR Dog shit and songs in the backyard In the living room in the shed And the stories we made And the stories we still pretend I don't want to feel ashamed To call my home by its name We can blame test scores and teenage and bored And locked doors But home is not to blame
3.
All of the birds... Blue jay foreplay Robin Osprey Parakeet Seagull Golden Eagle Egg sit smash hit Whippoorwill Louisville Big birds soar small birds flap more All of the birds... Chickidy chicken feet burgundy burger meat Peacock big flock dark cloud sunblock King Fisher Derrick Fisher Appiliated Woodpecker All of the birds... What’s your favorite bird? Heron cinnamon portland Cockatoo Great Blue looks after you What’s your favorite bird song? Magnetawan Canyon Wren Penguin singing Whats your favorite bird name? Hallll of fame hockey puck duck duck Goose poop turkey soup fish scoop chicken coup Encyclopedia Birdtanica Migrating to Canada All of the birds... Are certain birds more bird than other birds Certain breeds seem to be birdier species For instance Small fellows with smooth feathers like a swallow marshmallow Short wings always sings got a beak no teeth Not a Parrot not a Bat not Yasser Arafat, Snowy Owl on the prowl Pterodactyl... What’s this song for Loons and condors Birds use sticks and twigs We wear powder wigs Birds fly and sing songs We drop atomic bombs Regurgitate like a Pelican We shoot birds for fun But I’ll keep these human woes Cause birds can't ride bicycles All of the birds...
4.
Putcha Ear 02:50
There's a dog across from me She barks incessantly As I remain unanswering Encroaching on the dog's property Around about every now and then She'll stop forget and begin again Putcha ear plugs in... Putcha hands up Stop forget and begin again Putcha ear plugs in... Putcha hands up...
5.
Bill 04:21
Mmmmmm Mmmmmm The monster's arm was lit Against the dark of the highway Flood lights beads of rain It was picking up dirt In the lane that was closed Claws sunk in the earth Scooped up a cat Accidentally Unnoticed by the monster's driver Who looked a bit like you and me He drove a caterpillar machine Muscled orange and mean He'd whisper Mama I'm sailing home I'm sailing home The cat's name was bill He lived on the hill Our driver was tasked to excavate Bill was a bit over weight With proud padded paws He'd seen many things but nothing quite Nothing like what he saw The driver's name was Bill Same name as the cat He’d stare and whisper At the sight, the song Of every bird And so our hero's collide The fateful ride The cat rose suspended atop a mound A throne of mud The rush of cool air The freeway glare The silver rain The ringing harps His name Bill, the driver, was blinded by the cat's eyes reflecting the silver flood lights. He turned off the machine and stumbled from it's metal cage just as a snowy white owl swooped from the stormy sky and plucked the cat straight out of the machine's claw. Driver bill dropped to his knees and watching the owl clutching the cat fly away he whispered, "Mama I'm sailing home, I'm sailing home." Cattails and common grey whales and the ownership of abalone and the way the cotton falls slightly left to the right way to own a balogne shop in the upper cannon ball district of cool down in the river or wherever else your eggs boil...

about

18 minutes of ambient folk joy.

Lives on both sides of the mirror, in the upper cannonball district of cooldowns, and wherever else your egg is boiled.

Beechlord is the shared nickname - a name that Jenner calls Shawn and Shawn calls Jenner. Forged somewhere in seventh grade on trampolines, in garage bands, while wearing matching Harry Potter costumes for Halloween.

Beechlord is playful, a little heartbroken, and from Palo Alto.

Writing about music is like spooning about carburetors.

credits

released July 27, 2016

Jenner – Birdsong
Shawn – Birdproduction

Mastered by the illustrious Jordan Hartman King
www.presskit.to/jordanhartmanking

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Beechlord Pakse, Laos

Beechlord are a long distance band mostly just separated geographically.

Shawn: brazen candle lover, drinks milk

Jenner: occasional river floater, born to a family of yogi mandolinists

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