Painted Bird

On lead-poisoned wings

You try to sing

Freak beak shrieks are thrown

At your confusing hue

The peacock screaming eyes

Show no mercy

Oh, no mercy

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Oh, painted bird

It's absurd

Just a tainted bird

Hurting their twisted nerve

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Painted bird

It's absurd

Just a tainted bird

Hurting their twisted nerve

(Painted bird)

The flock will make you choke

On this sadistic joke

And the whippoorwills

They make a din

In laughing unison

You're hitchcock carrion

In laughing unison

You're hitchcock carrion, carry on

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Painted bird

It's absurd

Just a tainted bird

Hurting their twisted nerve

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Painted bird

It's absurd

Just a tainted bird

Hurting their twisted nerve

(Painted bird)

I hear your sorrow

Maybe tomorrow

You'll lose your sorrow

When a fated weather will cleanse away

That painted feather

And all that sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

Ooh

A coquette in fur

Purr for the painted bird

Confound that dowdy flock

With a sharp-honed nerve

Because we're painted birds

By our own design

By our own design

And there's no more sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, woah-oh

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Have you heard

About the painted bird?

Just a tainted bird

Hurting their twisted nerve

We've lost our sorrow

Now it's tomorrow-morrow

No need to hide your feather

Until a fated weather

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

No more sorrow, sorrow

We've lost our sorrow

(Painted bird, it's absurd)

Now we're painted birds

Mocking that twisted nerve

(It's absurd)

Painted birds

(It's absurd)

It's absurd