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Oh, Little Bird

from Songbird by Man & the Mountain

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A acoustic folk song about figuring out your own tune and following it.

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Oh come on sing to me, oh little bird
Tomorrow’s song
And we’ll think a bit ahead of us
And love the thought we’re on

While laying in a field
Clouds overhead
We’ll talk about how one
Is taking shape
We’ll rise above the wheat and fray
And float away to
Our cloudy house upon the hill

I could have been a butcher like
My dad before
But then she sang
Her tune for me
And I learned the years held more

Spending days out in the field
Clouds overhead
We let our pockets empty out
But filled our heads
And our wings with gusts of air
And we lived there
Our cloudy house upon the hill

My canary cut her hair
On a whim
She must’ve sighed a thousand times
For her locks to grow back in

So we waited in a field
Clouds overhead
The wind would stir us up
And blow her hair’
She’d talk how she would soon be crowned
With locks unbound on
Our cloudy house upon the hill

We are the words
We are the tune
We speak through every afternoon
And relive it every night
If people never understand
Well then they’ve never held another’s hand
And taken flight

Cause our days fly by so fast now
And dreams can last so long
Just maybe past the day the day that
We’re both gone

Oh come on sing to me, oh little bird,
Another song
The rhythm that we fall into
To move the days along

While laying in a field
clouds overhead
We lived a thousand lives
In our earthen bed
No matter where our bodies lay
We will stay in
Our cloudy house upon the hill.

credits

from Songbird, released September 22, 2014
John Carroll-sound engineering

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Man & the Mountain Nashville, Tennessee

Inspired by bands Mumford and Sons, The Head and the Heart, and the Lumineers, M&tM are cutting out their own space in the current Americana/Folk scene. Their music is riff-driven acoustic guitar parts backed while also including less common instruments such as ukulele, melodica, harmonica, and banjo. Lyrically they pull inspiration from elements of folklore and larger-than-life themes. ... more

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