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Little Hangman

from Migrant Birds by Migrant Birds

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Staring down the barrel of eternity
Twelve years gone and still bound to thee
The pain in my ankle guess it’s just as well
Cause the chain and the shackle I put there myself

You a bird of the air, I'm a fish of the sea
Tried to grow a pair of wings but it just won’t be
As you float between the blues like an albatross
I’m just a scared, gaunt sailor here aiming my shot

And I keep writing songs, even though it kills
Drained like a little river through the hills
And I cut that bowstring a time and again
But I’m still no match for that little hangman

Like the pump of the blood, I knew it then
You and me were just synonyms
But sharing a meaning doesn’t make us the same
Yeah the perfect matching pieces rarely have the same shape

So I dove like a hawk and I fought like hell
But fighting yourself never turns out well
Still I know you like the desert knows the shifting dunes
'Cause the who you are won’t be who you are soon

And I keep writing songs, even though it kills
Drained like a little river through the hills
And I cut that bowstring a time and again
But I’m still no match for that little hangman

Well I know you’re not a bird, don’t belong in the hand
And the jail of a bush you never could stand
But you can’t put a heart on lay-away
So I guess I’ll go ahead and put mine in the grave

And I hope it’s just imbalance of the chemicals
And there ain’t no such thing as being in love
But staring down the barrel of eternity
I know the arrow of time will never point to thee

And I keep writing songs, even though it kills
Drained like a little river through the hills
And I cut that bowstring a time and again
But I’m still no match for that little hangman

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from Migrant Birds, released May 23, 2019
Lyrics and music by Spencer Ayscue
Performed by Migrant Birds
Mixed and produced by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA

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Migrant Birds is an indie folk band from Winston-Salem, NC. Their debut album My Honest Face was released on September 29.

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