Songs For Birds Highlight

Track 5 - That Bird Song

This song is probably the unofficial theme song to this album/demo. It inspired the name of the album, and another song which displays my style of music strongly. I came up with the idea I believe spring 2013.

Lyrically, the song is about being a bird. It’s simply as that, I’d describe it as honest pop. I’ve had a few people think its about fellatio which I think is extremely interesting and makes me wonder where people’s minds are. I came up with the song idea sitting on my porch with an ex girlfriend.  Eventually I flushed it out into a full song. The last line is probably one of my favorite lines on the album. “Honestly, your gonna have to promise me, you’ll stop being startling, or I’ll leave”. That’s a loaded line, which applies to both the theme of the song, and a few things going on in my life at the time. 

Instrumentally it’s only 3 Chords! Very punk (lol) I tried to add a level of complexity by changing how those 3 chords are played, adding complexity as the song progresses eventually adding bass, drums, and keyboard until the “release” of the song. It’s one of my favorite songs to play, though I rarely perform it. I think it sounds better with all the instruments together as opposed to acoustic. For the ending I thought about adding bird noises. If I ever re-record it I think I will.

Also random tidbit of information, this is the only song to contain profanity on the album. Hope you enjoy.