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When I Was A Bird

from Whiskey with Angels by Gabriel Moreno

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lyrics

8. When I Was A Bird

When I was a bird I used to swoop low
to peck in the crumbs of your coffee-pot soul.
When I was a bird I thought it was wise,
to try and dissolve the smog in your eyes.

But then you took me in and I fell into your mind
it was deep as the well where young lover’s die, When I was bird.

When I was a bird, in a little blue box
I kept the ruins of my past for my poems and songs.
When I was a bird I flew to Madrid
to hide in the bars from my family’s sins.

Then truth came to the door, with its two ugly brown paws
it said fool you can’t hide from the kraken inside, When I was a bird.

(Bridge) When I was a bird I was seduced by the stars that I myself put in the sky.

When I was a bird, I liked my disguise,
I hid in a bin made by your lies.
When I was a bird my beak was shaded and grey
I failed to connect with the roots of my pain.

Then truth came to the door, with its two ugly brown paws
it said fool you can’t hide from the kraken inside, When I was a bird.

When I was a bird.

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from Whiskey with Angels, released February 10, 2021
TY Watling: Mandolin and vocals
Ayesha Watling: Vocals

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Gabriel Moreno London, UK

Gabriel Moreno is a singer songwriter and poet with more than 10 poetry books published in both Spanish and English Publishers and Annexe, London. Winner of the Introducing Stage at The Great British Folk Festival and hailed as "an offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond" By Cerys Mathews. ... more

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