The Aviary Atlas

[Intro]
[Verse]
White gloves on the cold glass
Watching the slow hours pass
C’est le silence avant le cri
The salt on the velvet is free
I polish the puffin’s dry eye
Under a painted museum sky
Dusting the gannet’s stiff wing
Waiting for the brass to ring
[Pre-Chorus]
Ten o'clock on the wall
Shadows start to crawl
Deffro from the deep sleep
Promises we couldn't keep
[Chorus]
Wings hit the wire
Heart like a choir
They move the stones
They pick the bones
Mapping the shore
Love from before
L'amour de mer
Salt in the air
[Post-Chorus]
Staccato feet on the floor
Opening every locked door
Click, clack, the gulls attack
There is no turning back
[Break]
[Verse]
A letter stuck in a beak
The old wooden floorboards creak
Y môr calls out your name
Nothing will stay the same
They swap the labels in rows
Where the hidden current flows
A ghost in a photograph
A quiet, taxidermy laugh
[Pre-Chorus]
Labels torn in two
Searching for the clue
Deffro from the deep sleep
Secrets that the seabirds keep
[Chorus]
Wings hit the wire
Heart like a choir
They move the stones
They pick the bones
Mapping the shore
Love from before
L'amour de mer
Salt in the air
[Bridge]
L’oiseau s’envole high
Across the plaster sky
Hedfan yn uchel now
They show the sailors how
To find the sunken heart
Before the worlds depart
Glass cases shatter wide
With the turning of the tide
[Solo]
[Build-up]
One bird for the grief
One bird for the reef
One bird for the lie
One bird for the goodbye
[Chorus]
Wings hit the wire
Heart like a choir
They move the stones
They pick the bones
Mapping the shore
Love from before
L'amour de mer
Salt in the air
[Post-Chorus]
Staccato feet on the floor
Opening every locked door
Click, clack, the gulls attack
There is no turning back
[Outro]