The Black Bird, the Dark Slope (2021 Remaster) Lyrics
The Black Bird, The Dark Slope - Los Campesinos!
The black bird sits atop my guts
And spreads it's wings for flight
My shoulders back
My jaw pushed out
My stomach sucked in
It's wingtips push across my lungs
And fill them full of feathers
But the brushstrokes feel like
Hearthpokes into my skin
The black bird feasts upon my guts
And bears it's beak to fight
My shoulders back
My jaw pushed out
My stomach sucked in
It's wingtips push across my lungs
And fill them full of feathers
Now they poke between my teeth
And that's why I thirst
When he flies me to the top
There's nothing but the fog
A heart of stone
Eggshells for bones
They lead you to be lost
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The black bird is a part of me
A part of me so sad to see
The black bird is a part of me so sad
To see so sad
I ask before I go
For you to drop a lit match down my throat
And smoke the bastard out
Or burn him to a crisp
'Cause I'm already carrion
Been eaten from the inside too long
This black bird wants to rip me
Limb from limb
The black bird dips it's beak
In blood and writes it's thoughts in cursive
'Cross the bones that are it's jailer
And my ribcage
And when you turn me inside out
Believe in me without a doubt
The words were all of his
And none of mine
When he flies me to the top
There's nothing but the fog
A heart of stone
Eggshells for bones
They lead you to be lost
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The dark slope drags you down
The black bird is a part of me
A part of me so sad to see
The black bird is a part of me so sad
To see so sad to be me