Bird, Andrew - Tenuousness Lyrics






Tenuous at best was all he had to say
When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is
From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans
Greek Cypriots and harbor sorts who hang around in ports a lot uh huh

Here's where things start getting weird
While chinless men will scratch their beards
And to their minds a sharpened axe
Is brushed upon the Uralic syntaxes

Love of hate acts as an axis
Love of hate acts as an axis
First it wanes and then it waxes
So procreate and pay your taxes

Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven
Thank the heavens for their elasticity
And as for those who live and die for astronomy

When coprophagia was writ
Know when to stand or when to sit
Can't stand to stand, can't stand to sit
And who would want to know this?
Click, click, click

Who wants to look upon this?
Who wants to look upon this pray tell?
Who wants to look upon this?
Who wants to look upon this pray tell, pray tell?

Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven comes just shy of infinity
And as for those who live and die from numerology





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  1. A.... J....

    crazy stupid love

  2. C.... O....

    Uralic syntaxes

  3. R.... K....

    Funny, I needed to find my dictionary anyway.

    R.... K....

    this made me giggle

    R.... K....

    ha ha ha

  4. S.... D....

    Mike from green grow spaces brought me here.. Check him out

  5. E.... E....

    Gracias por compartir :')

  6. T.... ....

    [Verse 1]
    Tenuous at best was all he had to say when pressed about the rest of it, the world that is
    From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans
    Greek Cypriots and Hobis-hots
    Who hang around the ports a lot

    Here's where things start getting weird
    While chinless men will scratch their beards
    Tool their minds to sharpened axes
    Brush up on the Uralic syntaxes

    Love of hate acts as an axis
    Love of hate acts as an axis
    First it wanes and then it waxes
    (So procreate and pay your taxes)

    [Chorus]
    Ten you us ness less seven comes to three
    Them you us plus eleven
    Thank the heavens for their elasticity
    And that's for those who live and die for astronomy

    [Verse 2]
    When Copraphagia was writ
    Know when to stand know when to sit
    Can't stand to stand can't stand to sit and who would want to know this
    Click click click


    [Bridge]
    Who wants to look upon this
    Who wants to look upon this
    Pray tell

    Who wants to look upon this
    Who wants to look upon this
    Pray tell
    Pray tell

    [Chorus]
    Tenuousness less seven comes to three
    Them you us plus eleven
    Comes just shy of infinity
    And that's for those who live and die for numerology

  7. P.... m....

    Thinking of traveling to Pantogia, brought me to 18o south on Netflix, and the line procreate and pay your taxes, brought me here.

  8. e.... h....

    to Marfa Korzukhina
    Letter to read before the night or a bit after the morning
    I will write it then with simple words.
    Who knows? Not me. One sunny day you may think that Nino that French lunatic guy never wanted to harass you neither to make you feel sad neither to destroy ur reputation -
    For the last three days I have prepared myself mentally for tomorrow when police comes to take me.
    It is ugly, yeah.
    GUILT-TRIP... wtf
    - My apologies, Marfa for my lack of imagination. I hadn't found another way. - hadn't found the way to save our friendship, i hadn't found any possible and respectful way to communicate with you but by sending to other people. You cut off all the ways and my only right, according to your rules, is to shut up or to go to jail
    I have chosen the last one. I break ur warning. Now Marfa call the police if you please, ruin my life if it makes you good. But please don't be sad because of me. It is the only thing I don't allow you
    I assume to be the spectator who will see his own life ruined by the consequences of your choice - I prefer that than watching ourselves deaf and blind, full of ego and cold
    So it is the deal that you proposed me: or I accept our friendship is dead or I go to jail or to some long exile of your preference, to some hospital or maybe a goulag - I am giving you the decision to fuck up my life - just in order to remind you Marfa : that there is another way than aggression and walls - Maybe simply by replacin hate with harmony, and considering the other with forgiveness - and around us, - it worths to fuck my life off if I can one day remind you all that - even if for that you may send me to jail.
    And also because I have still hope that you remember not too late
    Harassment was not the way - threat is not the answer
    Do you have suggestions?
    Smile
    Forgiveness
    To forget that we were angry two minutes ago (I am like this) and to laugh loudly
    Compassion
    Watching movies
    I don't know... You know what, I dont have the magical reciept. I don't know. I trust life to teach me
    And I don't want harassment - as you may not want to ruin my life.
    I would be sincerily sorry for you - if you decided once to destroy someone's life for the reason he wants to be your friend
    Friendship, harmony and forgiveness are knocking twice at your door, waiting for the policeman.
    You are scared of me - for sure you are because you don't know me.
    Before you call the police, before you judge and pull me away again, - put your emotions aside for one hour, Marfa open that iron door and let all the fear you have towards me go away for a while - and just come say hello. (In some historical mansion, you may find a sleeping ray on the stairs )
    Effortless, you can put in pieces the walls around, the locked doors that are suppose to protect you from the monster that I am in your eyes. Because behind that prison you built I ve seen nothing but tears in your eyes
    To believe and to dare:
    It is maybe not easy - like a sunday mornin - to put an end on all this hate around us, - like breaking the walls we put between each other - being awesome and stupid one hour in our lives
    I assume every word I wrote before and I mean every word that is coming to my mind, for they are all part of me. Stupid words, dead but never bleeding words, unfair - in love - in transe - full of blood words, umbrella words, orphan words, blind & blinding words, flying above the city's roofs words, escaping underneath a sky painted by Chagall - making love with Klimt's Muses - blue eyes vagabond words; staring at the lights on the Mt'kvari, a neon, rocket, waterfalls, hands, russian kiss, - silent apologies, violent purity singing out of tune
    Easy like being friends
    Ps:
    ... this is not connected but I take this opportunity to share with you and all the juerks who will read my message something that is dear to me. I created a group that people may find in some forums in facebook, - and I need to gather more people. Today was the first event. No one came actually. I was alone. And I just can say that I won't give up and slowly slowly I will gather people because it is such a soft energy and I believe people will spread it more and more in the following days
    So dear evryone: If you know some people interested in provocating smiles, tell anyone to bring hot beverages in thermos if they have - and 2 laris for fruit. Will be a lot of wet smiles tomorrow!
    This is the post people may find in many Facebook forums (Spread the word to all your friends) Not for me - but for them
    Dear citizens of Tbilisi, dear citizens of Georgia, dear expatriates living in Tbilisi, dear travelers coming to Tbilisi, dear students, unemployed, hard-workers, married, divorced, singles, bi, straight, democratic, anarchist, racist, oligarchs or broken - dear everyone, hi!
    And what if I propose you a deal?
    And if today I propose you TO BE THE REASON OF SOMEONE ELSE'S SMILE today?
    And if today, - but it can be tomorrow - you feel (like I feel now) tired of thinking about your own ass, - so make a break, - leave yourself aside for one, two hours - and come to meet me somewhere in Tbilisi
    For instance we gonna buy one kilo of apples (1 lari) one kilo of mandarins (1 lari) make sandwiches, bring some hot beverages from our home. What can be brought, even a small thing - is already priceless. We meet somewhere. Maybe railway station cause there we can buy fruit for a cheap price. But it can be other things. Not only fruit... And I would be so glad to get plenty of other ideas from each of you!!
    Now think: if we are 20 people, each one spends 2 lari, we have each of us two kilos of fruit - 40 kilos.
    And we walk. A nice walk in the autumnal streets of Tbilisi. And in the same time we meet people, we discover places. And we give food to anyone who is not smiling.
    There are many. And I am one of them sometimes. And I learned today, in the corner of a street, that what makes me smile is to be the reason of someone else's smile
    It will not cost much. It will bring a lot
    Believe me: once you start, it is like a drug
    So come on, everyone, let's make it happen
    I will create the first meeting for this week
    Spread the word dear everyone
    It doesn't matter how much you give, how much you get - but how much you share
    Guilt-trip.. I see...

  9. J.... H....

    Fun fact about numerology, the divisors of the name Jesus Christ equal to 6660 https://youtu.be/iUUys6_kURU

  10. L.... S....

    Can someone explain the coprophagia part??? Wtf

    L.... S....

    Tenos Bonacci it's referencing a dog. Coprophagia is shit. The dog is told when to sit, stand, and shit through the training of a clicker. It's a commentary on free-will, in my take.

  11. L.... L....

    Tenuous at best was all he had to say 
    When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is
    From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans
    Greek Cypriots and harbor sorts who hang around in ports a lot uh huh

    Here's where things start getting weird
    While chinless men will scratch their beards
    And to their minds a sharpened axe 
    Is brushed upon the Uralic syntaxes

    Love of hate acts as an axis
    Love of hate acts as an axis
    First it wanes and then it waxes
    So procreate and pay your taxes

    Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
    Them, you, us plus eleven 
    Thank the heavens for their elasticity 
    And as for those who live and die for astronomy

    When coprophagia was writ
    Know when to stand or when to sit
    Can't stand to stand, can't stand to sit
    And who would want to know this?
    Click, click, click

    Who wants to look upon this? 
    Who wants to look upon this pray tell?
    Who wants to look upon this?
    Who wants to look upon this pray tell, pray tell?

    Tenuousness, less seven comes to three
    Them, you, us plus eleven comes just shy of infinity 
    And as for those who live and die from numerology

  12. s.... k....

    I will never find something as pure as this.

  13. S.... ....

    this is great Autumn music !

  14. J.... M....

    Fuck you David linhaguen! :v

  15. m.... t....

    crazy, stupid, love me trouxe aqui 🇧🇷

    m.... t....

    +Christina Vidal bitch

    m.... t....

    Same here lol

  16. p.... ....

    not cool. this is straight up Bernie sanders propaganda

  17. j.... i....

    Lyrical porn

    j.... i....

    +jenna ingeberg im guesing its indie folk

  18. J.... S....

    awesomeness

  19. D.... C....

    Lol he's funny

  20. t.... ....

    mzk foda

  21. l.... P....

    Pornhub brought me here

    l.... P....

    The connection is tenuous at best.

    l.... P....

    Xvideos for me

    l.... P....

    Lol y'all lying

    l.... P....

    as is true for the rest of us. though not directly, via crazy stupid love

  22. M.... C....

    180 south brought me here 💕

    M.... C....

    +Marelis C-Ramirez how

    M.... C....

    it's not part of the original soundtrack, but this songs plays at the part he introduces his two friends.

  23. S.... A....

    Johnlock brought me here

  24. J.... J....

    crazy stupid love brought me here

    J.... J....

    same here

    J.... J....

    big facts

    J.... J....

    And me.

    J.... J....

    What scene is this song in?

    J.... J....

    it's in the closing credits

  25. B.... d....

    <--in luv with good music

    B.... d....

    Your nipples have great taste.

    B.... d....

    hell yeah, u made my day !

  26. T.... O....

    My song

  27. T.... L....

    Nice video! If you get a moment you should check out one of ours! Hope you enjoy it!

  28. K.... ....

    God of war 2010

  29. 1.... ....

    Andrew Bird, the only whistler that ever mattered

  30. M.... R....

    Does anyone know how to interpret these lyrics- what they mean? I find them really confusing, but somehow very sad.

    M.... R....

    We are passengers of this world and are here for a short, doubtful time. Tenuous means very weak, slight, insubstantial, meager, flimsy and so on. It's about people dying for their beliefs such as people who died for astronomy. An example is Giordano Bruno who died at the stake after being tried with heresy by the Catholic Church. His case is a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences. He is regarded as a martyr for science. Even today, there are many mysterious deaths surrounding modern astronomers and astrophysicists. The world is an evil, cruel place but yet, many long to discover the truths and will die for these truths. Or you can procreate and pay your taxes. Or live and die, as you surely will one day, and in the meantime try to live you life as meaningful as you can.

    M.... R....

    +Anastasia T. awesome interpretation, thanks!

    M.... R....

    Bravo Anastasia, BRAVO.

  31. d.... ....

    So amazing. Music like this can save disasters like new pop and electro music.

  32. J.... H....

    He is whistling. No joke.

  33. s.... ....

    Anybody who had to wait for Crazy Stupid Love to bring them here? :)

  34. E.... M....

    He uses a theramin better then anyone I have ever heard before. Damn.

  35. M.... ....

    No going back now

  36. p.... ....

    Hahaha, same.

  37. J.... G....

    Experience ineffable bliss! Merveilleux!

  38. J.... G....

    Experience tne ineffable bliss!

  39. T.... M....

    this is amazing...

  40. p.... ....

    omg omg omg this is perfect

  41. M.... V....

    yeah i jsut saw this mother fucker in Mexico City last night.... pretty unexpected.. didnt think id ever be willing to turn gay for someone.. but then theres last ngiht

  42. N.... M....

    Herherher I love

  43. w.... p....

    oooo but this is a pleasure for ears,mind and soul!!!

  44. L.... C....

    Cool song! Love it!

  45. J.... H....

    A song mocking mental masturbation, I love you Bird.

  46. t.... B....

    Andrew Birds is such an incredible lyricist.

  47. R.... D....

    No, it puts all music to shame.

  48. L.... H....

    so incredible it puts all mainstream music to shame.

  49. J.... D....

    watched crazy, stupid, love and it's nice to be here...

  50. I.... T....

    So. Fucking. Good.

  51. w.... ....

    You mean his descriptive lines about a wide range of uniquely identified people?

  52. H.... ....

    No dislikes :)

  53. J.... D....

    I came across Andrew Bird by an accident. I can't believe this .... Had I not clicked on the link, I would never have known his music. He's so fucking amazing.

  54. D.... ....

    Spooky whistling 2:03

  55. B.... B....

    I love this song but what the fuck is he talking about during the second half of the first verse

  56. j.... ....

    this song makes me want to eat cake.

  57. S.... Z....

    AMAZING! love it

  58. d.... ....

    andrewbird style

  59. a.... ....

    what the style of this song?

  60. D.... L....

    That's the title of a movie dumb ass! That's how I found this song.

  61. K.... K....

    just saw him at sxsw this week. Never seen a man smile so much while playing music. You can tell he loves what he does.

  62. r.... ....

    @ENVCONSULT go away then

  63. D.... L....

    Crazy, Stupid, Love brought me here.

  64. c.... ....

    i fell in love with his music. lol. :)

  65. M.... ....

    It's okay. I fell in love with him too. I'm a straight guy, so I think the problems run deeper here.

  66. m.... s....

    This SOng.this song..

  67. A.... S....

    @4everdreaming22 Only 14 for me! That's still obtainable right?

  68. c.... ....

    He is so much better live its unbelievable i would really love to go and see him play

  69. H.... ....

    @Anarchosyndicalism1 now we are two.