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The Black Bird, The Dark Slope

from Hello Sadness (Remastered) by Los Campesinos!

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lyrics

The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
But the brushstrokes feel like hearthpokes into my skin.

The black bird feasts upon my guts and bears its beak to fight
My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in
Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers
Now they poke between my teeth and that's why I thirst

When he flies me to the top there's nothing but the fog
A heart of stone, eggshells for bones
They lead you to be lost

The dark slope drags you down
The black bird is a part of me,
a part of me, so sad to see

I ask before I go for you to drop a lit match down my throat
and smoke the bastard out or burn him to a crisp
'Cause I'm already carrion, been eaten from the inside too long
This black bird wants to rip me limb from limb

The black bird dips its beak in blood and writes its thoughts in cursive
'Cross the bones that are its jailer and my ribcage
And when you turn me inside out, believe in me, without a doubt
The words were all of his and none of mine

So sad to see, so sad to be me

credits

from Hello Sadness (Remastered), released November 15, 2021
All songs by Tom and Gareth
Arranged and performed by Los Campesinos!
All songs published by Nettwerk One Music.

On these recordings, Los Campesinos! were Tom, Gareth, Neil, Kim, Jason, Ellen and Rob.
With Harriet Coleman - Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by John Goodmanson.
Recorded at MusicLan Studios, Girona, Spain (Assistant Engineering by Jose Luis Molero) in April 2011
Mixed at ElectroKitty, Seattle, USA & at John's House, Seattle, USA (Additional Engineering by Eric Corson)

String Arrangements by Harriet Coleman (Recorded by Andrew Lewis at Cardiff Music Studio, Cardiff, Wales)
Brass Arrangements by Tom and Jherek Bischoff (Recorded at Eric's house, Seattle, USA)

Benjamin Kaminski - Viola
Jimmy Ottley - Cello
Samantha Boshnack -Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Nelson Bell - Trombone and Tuba
Jherek Bischoff - Double Bass and Good Vibes

Mastered by Simon Francis

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