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The Birds Outside My Window

by Paul and the Patients

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There were these totally annoying birds that would rap on my window every morning. I'd curse at them and slam the wall and they would fly away across to another window, but always came back in five or ten minutes. After a while, I felt that they were more excited by my window in particular so we developed a sort of bond. I imagined that they were surveying me daily to make sure I was just sleeping and not dead. I'd awake each morning to their noise and shout "See I'm alive you bastards!" or something to that effect. I took it a step further and decided that the birds were relaying this daily message to a girl I had been in a long relationship with, until recently, as she was worried about my well-being at the time. Now I don't get birds outside my new Williamsburg bedroom window, only artists.

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And the wind kicks back
Through the taped up, broken window
And I look through the crack
At the birds outside my window
And they tap and they tap
To see if I'm still moving
And they go and come back
To see if I'm still living for you

In and hour or two
They'll group outside my window
And they'll refuse to move
From the taped up broken window
They're so loud and so rude
To see if I'm still listening
They'll give me attitude
To see if I'm still living for you

Checking on, checking on my broken heart
For you

And I go and I smack
The wall beside the window
And they're taken aback
And fly from off the window
But when I look through the crack
They only moved across the alley
And they wanna come back
To see if I'm still healthy for you

Checking on, checking on my broken heart
For you

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released December 7, 2009

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