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Exodus All Over

by The Bird Calls

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Drinking On Planes 02:36
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All my friends are skipping town All my money’s been spent I’ve been barred from going down To all the places I once went So I’ve been getting some perspective Bracing for my initial descent It’s just like drinking at the bar with a real cool view Your seat cushion can function as a barstool too A paper baggy might come in handy In the seatback pocket in front of you It’s a dive in the sky And I know the bartender I can’t stand when I land I wanna stay up here forever Chugging one after another Can’t even remember my name No danger drinking and flying I got my designated pilot drop me off at the gate Let’s turn this 747 into honky tonk heaven I love drinking on planes The hangovers and the hangups Can’t get me while I’m up here Drinking wine, crossing time zones 5 o’clock somewhere Mile high, I’ll get dry When I meet you down at baggage claim Right now I’m taking the red eye Chasing the sunlight with moonshine And a smile on my face Once I start I can’t stop it Cocktails in the cockpit I like drinking on planes Let’s turn this 747 into honky tonk heaven I like drinking on planes Keep your seat buckle fastened Compliments to the captain I like drinking on planes
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Not Next Week But The Week After 02:39
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Woke up drunk next to no one Showered and shaved while my skin was still soft Time heals all wounds but it also inflicts them Still got some bandaids that I haven’t peeled off There were hummingbirds busking in the cutthroat buzz of the dawn I’m afraid that I’m becoming the person who I was all along And whatever the roads here are paved with They all lead to the same shit So lead me on into temptation Come on and show me what I’m working against Meanwhile I’m watching you bury your father At least in the figurative sense We caught fragments of rain as they fell from a half-written sky We shared an umbrella but it only kept one of us dry And sons whose mothers used to sing them to sleep Keep a lullaby rhythm when they’re grinding their teeth One of us was searching for a half-decent reason to live One of us was finding in the other just the opposite And not next week but the week after that We’re gonna get to that place if they’ll welcome us back
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Let's Leave The Party Together 02:16
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The work we do to pay our rent Dictates the way our days are spent So that’s why we spend our nights Spending our money Someone who calls himself the captain Says in the city where we’re landing It’s already tomorrow And it’s 95 and sunny I’ve just been informed we’re not getting any younger And when this life is through we might not get another You’ve heard it all before but that don’t make it better So when the party’s over let’s leave the party together Let’s leave the party together A time will come to say goodbye There will be bills to pay and forms to sign I hope the shadows that I’m casting Leave you some shelter We paint the whole house in angelic white By lamps that lend new slants of light We have learned to leave our mark here And on each other We were driving from the airport Little dropouts from a pale sky Saw champagne in the windshield cracks Diamonds in the taillights Only meant to show our faces Now we’ve been kicking around forever Looks like the party’s over So let’s leave the party together Let’s leave the party together
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Tumble Dry 02:13
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Tumble dry And the weather wears off Tumble dry Just spinning in the heat All the time I tried to waste Couldn’t wash you off my mind Tumble dry Tumble dry Tumble dry In an effort to be clean What kind of fool am I? Thought that I’d get off that easy The stains tell the whole story now If you read between the lines Tumble dry Tumble dry Even when I try to turn the heat up It doesn’t change how it all comes out A bird’s eye view can be exhausting too That’s why we always see them hopping around When we’re walking through the park And you put your arms around me I come home and I still smell you on my skin That’s nature’s way of reminding us where we’ve been Tumble dry, tumble on, and tumble in
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Drive Around Singing 03:21
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No one asks me anymore How you’re doing or where you are I guess that’s just the way that it go The house flies and the paper waits The day breaks when the bed is made I can tell you want to be alone But I’m running on adrenaline I like the skin I’m living in The blue sky smells like birthday cake We save the date and celebrate We drive around singing We drive around singing We stand in as our own defense Count our blessings, count our friends Hallelujahs never end We count to ten then count again We drive around singing We drive around singing I think that’s all my stuff she says You can keep whatever’s left I’d rather just move on and be done Well, the mindful and the mindless know The middle ground is where the trouble grows And there’s a number lonelier than one I hear an angel being born I seize the day and chase the storm It’s one step back then back and forth Of course I changed, I changed my course I drive around singing I drive around singing I can’t believe my crazy fortune Winds of change and wild horses Days like this are life-affirming Wolves are howling, wheels are turning Drive around singing Drive around singing I can see the little lights Of towns that come alive at night Fight my demons, go the distance Waterproof and flame-resistant Drive around singing Drive around singing I like the skin I’m living in I’m running on adrenaline The blue sky smells like birthday cake We save the date, we celebrate We drive around singing We drive around singing
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Naming The Company Car 02:54
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I have never kept a diary ‘Cuz writing what I know does not inspire me And I try not to pick up any new rituals While keeping track of what I’m learning After a long day doing nothing I spend the night worried about everything All this time I’ve allotted to tossing and turning And naming the company car After a star of classic cinema This is the golden age of the commonplace And the rest takes care of itself Right there at the junction Between design and function Sits your beautiful body… of work All the wrong people have imposter syndrome The actual imposters are just ecstatic to be getting away with it And you and I both know how hard it can be just to look folks in the eye And if you need someone to help you Find out what your dreams are trying to tell you I will be of no use But I will dream beside you Naming the company car After a star of classic cinema This is the golden age of the commonplace And the rest takes care of itself Right there at the junction Between design and function Sits your beautiful body… of work
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Taking Grandpa For A Walk 02:22
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Aren’t you getting sick of talking about your star sign? I can see the moon in your eyes Taking grandpa for a walk He’s been sleeping for a long time Half of what I say are all lies And the other half are things I’ve memorized You tell me slow down but I’m making up for lost time Talking to you all night Yesterday I watched as they were tearing up the sidewalk The rubble in the rain was like a seaside storm Kept my head in the sand long enough to miss the fireworks Placing stars where there was only sky before And then they burst and there’s no starlight anymore Wide open spaces outside the window of the wine store There are craters in our folklore Rockin’ the cradle of the civil war Yeah I guess I’m glad that you’re with me Or else I might not believe what I’m seeing It’s a kind of bad habit I’ve developed in the past year To shake myself awake when I’ve been dreaming Scouring the aftermath for meaning And when you can’t hear me you can feel us touching spirits And there’s only space between us Like Mercury and Venus
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Helicopter Lights 02:14
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Seems like it’s time to go The world’s catching up with me On the tips of the tongue of the silent majority There’s headlights in the rearview A crescent in the bloodshed The days stretch out before you From the nightstand and the bedspread Helicopter lights Beam down on a bonfire That’s the sound of the band through an amplifier’s barbed wire Watched them play for no one Sounded like they meant it The dream we had as children Right there where we left it
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Fever Toy 01:56
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You said you never felt so certain The rest of us had our questions We left some people hurting Despite our best intentions Life goes on without us now We stay forever young The clean slate of a white sky Behind the smog of self-doubt The sand before the high tide The centuries we’ll sit out Above the scalp of the planet The furthest we can run Our memories disintegrate Become what they become Sometimes when I can’t sleep I think about you sleeping The fever of a bad dream The bruised black of the evening Found ourselves a plaything To get us through the night The morning had its own plans With every stab of light
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Whatever We Want 02:18
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Wherever you are There’s a part of you that hangs over the edge And just ‘cuz we see less of you Doesn’t mean we love you any less Sorry, you talkin’ to me? I was scoring the last scene of an action film In the screening room in my head Hey hey Whatever we want We will find a way Well, sure, we can talk about that The windows of the soul all seem to be closed From the outside looking in At least from where I’m standing the earth still spins… And the room spins, now imbued with subtle new improvements And I love what you’ve done with the place I love your long face Have to believe we’ve lived through the worst of it by now We gotta have faith Hey hey Whatever we want We will find a way
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Stormwashed 01:26
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Stormwashed under suspicious conditions A bloodbath on the mountain path Stormwashed to be decided by juries Whatever avalanches starts like that I know you know this all I’m just trying to remind myself After autumn’s undertow We brace ourselves for letting go Stormwashed gaining speed in the freefall A slingshot pull a sudden fling Stormwashed complemented by raindrops A shadow over everything If this is the last time we’ll see ourselves through each other’s eyes Let me show you where we’ve been

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All songs written and recorded in summer 2023
Except “Drinking On Planes,” which was written and recorded in May 2022

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released August 11, 2023

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