The Aviary's Ledger

[Intro]
[Verse]
Flashlight cuts the indigo
Walking past the dodo row
Static on the radio
Hum of the dryer below
(Aside: Minimum wage for a maximum haunting)
Asas de vidro, open wide
Nothing left for the dead to hide
Arsenic and desert sand
Arthur had a steady hand
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the click of wooden beaks
The floorboards offer up their shrieks
Tori no yume, waking up
Drinking moonlight from a porcelain cup
[Chorus]
Now the brass band starts to blow
Watch the golden pheasant go
Stitched with memories of 1924
Dancing on the polished marble floor
Old Man Miller’s ghost is in the thread
Painting life into the long-since dead
[Post-Chorus]
Spinning in the laundromat light
Feathers falling through the night
Everything is bright
Everything is right
[Verse]
Miss Halloway had a taste for lace
She gave the owl a human face
(Aside: Creepy, but technically proficient)
She’d hum a fado in the basement dim
Fixing every broken glass limb
Saudade in the cotton stuffing deep
While the city is fast asleep
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the click of wooden beaks
The floorboards offer up their shrieks
Tori no yume, waking up
Drinking moonlight from a porcelain cup
[Chorus]
Now the brass band starts to blow
Watch the golden pheasant go
Stitched with memories of 1924
Dancing on the polished marble floor
Old Man Miller’s ghost is in the thread
Painting life into the long-since dead
[Bridge]
The modular synth begins to swirl
I’m just a guard, I’m just a girl
Caught in a frantic feathered war
Between the ceiling and the floor
Operatic voices rise and fall
Shadows dancing on the gallery wall
(Portuguese: O tempo parou agora)
(Japanese: 夢の中で飛ぶ)
[Breakdown]
Click, clack, the dryer turns
Memory is the fuel that burns
Stuffed with straw and old regrets
Things the living world forgets
[Chorus]
Now the brass band starts to blow
Watch the golden pheasant go
Stitched with memories of 1924
Dancing on the polished marble floor
Old Man Miller’s ghost is in the thread
Painting life into the long-since dead
[Post-Chorus]
Spinning in the laundromat light
Feathers falling through the night
Everything is bright
Everything is right
[Outro]