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Queen of the Birds on a Wire

from Mississippi Mountain Mud by Reecy Pontiff

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BRIDGE:
I hear the chicken and boat and the gun and train

St. Roch's own ex-super heroin/e
Could you just not bear the thought of never seeing it again?
Only leads to dead ends, dead ends, dead ends
You left behind your dog and your darling Bear
Banging that drum kit in the sky you'll never feel no fear
Dead ends, dead ends, dead ends, dead ends

BRIDGE

CHORUS:
She was the queen of the birds on a wire
A telegraphed soul wrapped in superhero style
Life could not contain her and after awhile
She ripped herself open and she hopped the turnstile
She snuffed out the light and she hopped the turnstile
She ripped herself open and she hopped the turnstile
She snuffed out the light and she hopped the turnstile

Last summer I saw you on a bridge in Berlin
What was it that made you want to jump on in?
At the bottom, dead ends, dead ends, dead ends, dead ends
Now I'll put on your corsage,
We'll wear the skins of our dead in homage
We all got dead friends, dead friends, dead friends, dead friends

BRIDGE:
We hear the chicken and the boat and the gun and the train (x4)

CHORUS

Now there's no one left to cut my hair
And it's getting awful shaggy now that you're not here
Look at these dead ends, dead ends, dead ends, dead ends
I hear that hair keeps growing after you die
Well you'll always be Rapunzel now in my mind,
Dead ends, dead ends, dead ends, dead ends

CHORUS

BRIDGE

END

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from Mississippi Mountain Mud, released October 29, 2016

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Reecy Pontiff Manitou Springs, Colorado

Reecy Pontiff is a singer/songwriter specializing in southern-fried vaudeville and Americana on the ukulele.

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