Bird Balloons Lyrics & Chords By Lady Lamb

I'm a ghost & you all know it
I'm singing songs & I ain't slowing
It was a fragile thing & I goddamn dropped it
I picked the pieces up & put them in my pocket
& I ain't gonna try to win your heart this time
I've had space to think & I think that I've grown a little wiser
I'm looking for a new muse you have only made me tired
Call your bluff up on the telephone & jam-jar my blood
This is my loss of limb, my loss of love

It was so cold you could see both sets of ribs
almost escaping your skin to fly south
south until the springtime
Your hips stood out like confidence
you were naked as a newborn in the snow
but you wanted it so
that's precisely how you wanted it
& now your love is writing words on the wall
with the meat of a nectarine that she picked earlier that morning in the orchard
& you are on the street, a chest of drawers free
while the skeleton parade marches past you carrying bird balloons

They fly backwards and forwards
The streets can be eerie, streets can be dreary
It's as if leprosy landed on the moon
& it cast a filthy glow in the world & in my room

so how about I play the harp & you play that piano
Pull the curtains shut & nest like little sparrows
My limbs, my love are lost on you
My limbs, my love belong to you

I remember that night in the woods on the hidden balance beam
made of a long wooden board with a barrel underneath
We laid on either end & we couldn't quite knack it after many attempts
& minutes of silence until we did
& our breath caught
& we looked up
& the stars they were so still, the stars they were so still
Both our hearts they were revealed
Our hearts they were revealed
& you were my friend. You were my friend
This is my loss of love my loss of limb

But now I'm a ghost and you all know it
I'm singing songs & I ain't stopping
My hair grew long so I fucking cut it
& when you looked away I stuck those trimmings in your locket, haha.