Iron & Wine Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics

I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere

Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping or lost you, american mouth
Big pill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold
And clean blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding or lost you, american mouth
Big pill stuck going down

I'd just like to say that this song is one of the most beautiful ones I've ever heard, but please people, it wasn't written FOR Twilight!! God, I think it's great that Sam got the deal to put it in the movie, but he wrote it with deeper intentions than that! Great job on the song, and I guess on the bright side this will at least bring young audiences into some great indie music.

I love this song. It's really funny though. I also think that it has ally to do with Bella and Edward's relationship. Where is says 'have I found you, flightless bird.' I think that it's more of how Edward must of fellt always wanting to potect Bella, like you would to a bird who could not fly. In this case it more leads to how clumsy Bella is. I don't know if anyone else feels that this is what this song relates to, but this is from my perspective,...

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