flightless bird

I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere

Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping or lost you, american mouth
Big pill looming

Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold
And clean blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding or lost you, american mouth
Big pill stuck going down

 this song was played at the end of the TWILIGHT movie where edward danced with bella in their prom. if im not mistaken, this was in the background when bella asked edward to make her “one of them” but, edward refused knowing that being a teenager forever is quite tiresome and boring- when you have everything, what else is there to wish and want for? immortality negates life and love’s purpose- meaning.

the music is great but the lyrics lead me nowhere. the artist sure did a hell of a job symbolizing every line. it’s like jumping from one thing to another when you listen closely to the words yet the more i listened to it, the better i came to understanding this song.

this is more like fulfilling the great american dream- leaving one’s small town to go to the city with dreams of building an established future in terms of a solid city career and of finding love’s luck as well. who wouldn’ want to go back to his hometown bringing trophies of his achievements in the big city?but, harsh as reality bites, one must be open that not everything that he hopes for will materialize. one may spend all his lifetime trying to realize his dreams but, in the end, when everything has passed him by, he can only look back and wonder if all he did was worth all that he’s got.