Parakeet Lyrics by R.E.M.

Parakeet Lyrics

    You wake up in the morning
    And fall out of your bed
    Mean cats eat parakeets
    And this one's nearly dead.
    You dearly wish the wind would shift
    And greasy windows slide
    Open for the parakeet
    Who's colored bitter lime.

    Open the window
    And lift into your dreams
    lately, baby
    you can barely breathe.

    A broken wrist
    An accident
    You know that something's wrong
    You fold the leavings of your past
    No one knows you've gone.
    The sunspot flares of the early
    Nineties light up your wings.
    And scan the shotwave radio
    It's tracking outer rings.

    The tectonic dispatcher shifts
    To smooth the ocean floor
    And flattens out to warmer winds
    Of Brisbane's sunny shore.
    Where Buddhas tend to mending wrists
    A tea made from the leaves
    Of eucalyptus fragrances
    And coriander seeds.

    You wake up in the morning
    To warm Pacific breeze
    Where mean cats chew on licorice
    And cannot climb the trees.

    Open the window
    And lift into a dreams
    Baby, baby
    Baby starts to breathe.


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