[ti:Birdland] [ar:Patti Smith] [al:Horses] [offset:0] [00:01.20]Birdland - Patti Smith [00:25.94]His father died and left him a little farm in New England. [00:32.01]All the long black funeral cars left the scene [00:34.63]And the boy was just standing there alone [00:37.45]Looking at the shiny red tractor [00:40.38]Him and his daddy used to sit inside [00:43.45]And circle the blue fields and grease the night. [00:49.20]It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars [00:52.26]＇Cause when he looked up slip.they started to [00:56.01]Then he put his head in the crux of his arm [00:58.57]And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship, [01:04.70] [01:11.61]Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it [01:22.11]And saw his daddy ＇hind the control board streamin＇ beads of light, [01:33.42]He saw his daddy ＇hind the control board, [01:40.05]And was he very different tonight [01:42.86] [01:44.79]＇Cause he was not human, he was not human. [02:08.48]And then the little boy＇s face lit up with such naked joy [02:12.35]That the sun burned around his lids [02:14.79]and his eyes were like two suns, [02:18.42]White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly [02:22.29]And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight, [02:25.73]No black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven [02:30.04]And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out, [02:35.23]“No, daddy, don＇t leave me here alone, [02:44.67]Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship, [02:55.42]Let the ship slide open and I＇ll go inside of it [03:05.55]Where you＇re not human, you are not human.” [03:27.49]But nobody heard the boy＇s cry of alarm. [03:38.62]Nobody there ＇cept for the birds around the New England farm [03:43.43]And they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered [03:46.93]And they were like compass grass coming together [03:50.24]Into the head of a shaman bouquet [03:53.05]Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting [03:58.18]And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake [04:02.43] [04:03.85]Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck, [04:06.29]All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said, [04:10.09]“I won＇t give up, won＇t give up, don＇t let me give up, [04:13.78]I won＇t give up, come here, let me go up fast, [04:17.47]Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship [04:28.49]And the ship slides open [04:33.49]and I go inside of it where I am not human.” [04:49.73]I am helium raven and this movie is mine, [04:53.61]So he cried out as he stretched the sky, [04:57.11]Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, [04:59.93]am I all alone in this generation ? [05:02.74]We＇ll just be dreaming of animation night and day [05:07.61]And won＇t let up, won＇t let up and I see them coming in, [05:12.30]Oh, I couldn＇t hear them before, but I hear ＇em now, [05:15.49]It＇s a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights [05:21.37]Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them, [05:26.86]And he put up his hands and he said, “It＇s me, it＇s me, [05:30.12]I＇ll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up, [05:35.49]I＇m helium raven waitin＇ for you, please take me up, [05:40.87]Don＇t let me here,” the son, the sign, the cross, [05:45.37]Like the shape of a tortured woman, [05:48.24]The true shape of a tortured woman, [05:50.81]The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons [05:53.87]No longer presidents but prophets [05:57.30]They＇re all dreaming they＇re gonna bear the prophet, [05:59.68]He＇s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation [06:01.74]It＇s all gonna split his skull [06:04.25]It＇s gonna come out like a black bouquet shining [06:06.68]Like a fist that＇s gonna shoot them up [06:09.25]Like light, like Mohammed Boxer [06:10.18]Take them up up up up up up [06:13.68]Oh, let＇s go up, up, take me up, I＇ll go up, [06:17.13]I＇m going up, I＇m going up [06:19.06]Take me up, I＇m going up, I＇ll go up there [06:21.75]Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up [06:25.06]Up, up to the belly of a ship. [06:32.80]Let the ship slide open and we＇ll go inside of it [06:42.98]Where we are not human, we＇re not human. [07:10.61]Well, there was sand, there were tiles, [07:16.30]The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated [07:20.93]Like a river of glass [07:24.55]When it hardened he looked at the surface [07:28.05]He saw his face [07:29.87]And where there were eyes were just two white opals, [07:33.37]Two white opals, [07:34.80]Where there were eyes there were just two white opals [07:37.56]And he looked up and the rays shot [07:40.18]And he saw raven comin＇ in [07:46.41] [07:49.16]And he crawled on his back and he went up [07:55.78]Up up up up up up [08:05.78]Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, [08:14.66]Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, [08:25.97] [08:27.56]Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, [08:37.75]Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, [08:48.63]Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, [08:58.12]We like birdland