Top Songs By A Lot Like Birds
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
A Lot Like Birds
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michael Robert Franzino
Songwriter
Michael Austin Littlefield
Songwriter
Joseph Wesley Arrington
Songwriter
Benjamin Jacob Martinez Wiacek
Songwriter
Cory Brandon Lockwood
Songwriter
Kurt Travis
Songwriter
Lyrics
Go through solid stages, not noticing me
Hands hold tightly, no one shares
Go through solid stages, not noticing me
(Oh, the whispering walls)
Hands hold tightly, no one shares
(Doll it up)
At the rate, the paint is peeling off the walls
We'll need to cover it (Cover it)
Before it all falls apart
Oh, it'll all fall apart
(Truss it up)
At the rate, the skin is sloughing off our bones
They'll need to bury us (Bury us)
Because we all fall apart
Yeah, we all fall apart
The open mouths of these rooms are connected
By a hallway, dark and narrow
That we pass through like marrow through bone
And we do it alone
I miss the point and wish I still didn't dream
A taste gone mad, a sweet sadness, my favorite feeling
The whispering walls sound like an endless corridor
And at this rate, all the paint is peeling off the walls
And all I want to do is chase it (Before it all falls apart)
Down the hall, made out of frozen faces
Expressionless, eyes to the ground and lips locked tight
Ever so quiet, ever so quiet
And I never choose to taste hallucinations of what I've seen
'Cause I don't see the difference between chasing ghosts in dreams
And chasing dreams in life
(Doll it up) All the ones still close to us
Are the ones that most of us still don't see the way
I would have thought that it could be the sympathetic (Oh)
Solution, disillusion
And if I stayed or left, would you notice more or less of my existence?
Out of the corner of my eye
I see the ghost stutter-stepping like strobe lights
Ever inching closer, but always out of reach
So, I hold my breath and keep it under my tongue
And wait until both of my lungs are filled
If I count to ten, will it all go away?
Brushed aside or pushed aside?
A difference in tension
Intention and force applied
Cast aside or passing by
People as canvases: blank outside and bleak inside
We learned (And it caused other things asunder)
To stay (And avoiding all the turmoil)
Out of the way of each other
Just stay out of the way
Always colliding with the things that we had tried hard to avoid
We just bury them, close our eyes, cover it up
But what was buried managed to unlock the door
Even though we
Had boarded them, nailed them shut, hid the keys
Will we (In for it now) ever (Board up the house) find
Happiness? Clarity? Peace of mind?
Follow me down the hallway
If I should take a fall, don't look back
Pick a door, any door, any door now
Now
We all fall apart
Yeah, we all fall apart
And now we sit in what was built on our dreams
A space, now sad, speaks madness, attempts concealing
The crumbling walls
It feels like our time is getting short
And it's too late 'cause all the paint is lying on the floor
Did we selfishly erase it? (And we have all ignored the fault)
Busy filling mirrors with our damn faces?
Circling flaws that we find without respite
What do we find? What do we find?
And in the meantime
All the vultures circle us in hopes to feed
'Cause they don't see the difference between
Death disguised as life and life with lifeless eyes
Doll it up, all the ones still close to us
Are the ones that most of us still don't see the way (Before it all falls apart)
I would have thought that it could be the sympathetic (Oh)
Solution, disillusion
Because we all fall apart
Yeah, we all fall apart
The open mouths close
Written by: Benjamin Jacob Martinez Wiacek, Cory Brandon Lockwood, Joseph Wesley Arrington, Kurt Travis, Michael Austin Littlefield, Michael Robert Franzino