20170511 - Songs Are For The Birds

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

The city wears the streets like a tight striped dress.
It’s impossible not to look, but I don’t to stare like the rest.
I go slow, and I take the turns gently.
I try not to lend away lightly what gravely was lent me.

But actions speak louder than words,
and songs are for the birds,
so if you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.
If you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.

I don’t follow into woods after my hound bewitched –
there where the path forks, and the signs are switched –
or else I arrive on my own doorstep a child unclaimed,
small as violin, with a question mark for a name.

But actions speak louder than words,
and songs are for the birds,
so if you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.
If you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.

I got high and went to Walmart and walked from aisle to aisle.
Everyone here is on something. It’s an army of exiles.
I hear there’s an island of trash made of plastic in the ocean,
like a hole in all our heads, and it’s growing.

But actions speak louder than words,
and songs are for the birds,
so if you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.
If you love me don’t let me know,
let it show.

credits

from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

license

about

Paleo Portland, Oregon

Facebook

contact / help

Contact Paleo

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Paleo, you may also like:

Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean
by Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

With a hybrid of analog and synthesized sounds, Turin-born Daniel Colussi creates sophisticated, smooth art pop brimming with emotion. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 9, 2023
go to album
Walk Thru Me
by The Folk Implosion

Lou Barlow & John Davis return as Folk Implosion, with 10 more songs that are sweetly tuneful. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 17, 2024
go to album
Survive It
by Ghostpoet

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 16, 2024
go to album
How Will I Live Without a Body?
by LOMA

An earthy yet somewhat chilly record about life, death, and reconnection, the latest from LOMA experiments with a turn towards the gloomy. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2024
go to album
Within/Without
by Houses of Heaven

If you've been craving something dark and gritty yet stylish and dancefloor-ready, this hard-edged industrial synth opus might fit the bill. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2024
go to album
San Vito
by The Feeling

The London band's new album is a vibrant postcard from southern Italy, boosted by brass, strings, and pizzica percussion from local players. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 14, 2024
go to album
Terns in Idle
by Rain Recordings

This collaborative project offers a fresh twist on classic indie sounds of the early 2000s with hooky choruses and quirky instrumentation Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 13, 2024
go to album