Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds Lyrics
Rare birds, we are out in space
And at the moment we're weightless
This feeling will last as long as we like
Charming the views as we orbit the Earth
It's living with pain, it's telling us this
We will take off
From the belts of radiation
And from the moment of impact
We feel a powerful shockwave from the sun
Colliding we see results of beta decay
Still the Earth's not withstanding
Demand is growing, we're breaking her back
Falsetto folkies pitchfork at your side
Your tunes they will be forgotten
Way out in the desert boy there's nowhere to hide
See your face in the sun's daily mirror
A Black Pirate Paradox, silver and gold
Floating just over your head
Weeping, once upon an angel we cried
But the whole tone was changing
Our friends, they did not follow us here
Yeah, we were rare birds
We made magic on some fallen star
And we were perfectly timeless
Loving, working and losing our fears
But it's a hand me down riddle with God on it's side
His tone and his trumpet forgotten
Way out in the desert boy there's nowhere to hide
From your face in the sun's daily mirror
Pelican cases on Jesus's flight
No room in the overheads
La la la...
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Jonathan Wilson Rare Birds Comments
JW acoustic with 75 people in attendance at Old Town School = my favorite concert experience of 2019. The man's a wizard.
45:23 this song makes me wanna fly
Sunset blvd is an amazing song
Got this recording review from the prog music website, and am I glad to find out about this guy!
#There's a Light >>666<<<
All the yoga mommas love it
This is so wonderful, soft, intense, dynamic – great vocals, lyrics, guitars, feeling, it totally knocked me one late night and continues to do so.
meh. its like if sleepy jackson was super boring and stoned in the 70s
man this guys 'ad' for his show at carnegie hall keeps popping up, every day for weeks. finally checking it out.... not sure i feel compelled to part w my cash just yet
This is great. My favourite album of 2018.
SATANISMO
Fresh air in the music! Thanks
Very DAD this álbum, não é a toa que tem influência de Rogers Waters, esse q afundou uma das melhores bandas do século passado: Pink Floyd
Graças a Deus q David Gilmour resgatou o velho rock progressivo,e faz cada álbum melhor do que outro
Até aqui???
@Luciano Silva até aqui... ô pessoal chato.
+ipaline O álbum é bom demais
I know about this because of the band Drivin N Cryin, thanks to the former drummer Jeff Sullivan for posting a video.
cabaret sauvage le 14 un moment inoubliable ! p.a.l !
Excelente Album !! de principio a fin.
thanks for personally uploading your album man!
FRESH BRAVE
Roger Waters musical director...pretty good
Beautifull music !!
Jonathan is a genius of music
AMAZING. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
sick instrumentals here>>>https://youtu.be/dmIAtzd6BQo
Super album ! Un gros merci de France !
this animation looks like the sims lol btw this album is pure art
Amazing album
Really nice!
Pete Gab., Neil Yo., Roger Wat., thanks Jo it's a good trip.
and a little bit of Mike Old. too
wow this album is amazing proper music from a proper musician it sticks with you and grows . thank you Jonathan Wilson you may just have saved music peace brother.
Fred Flange properly overproduced
Another talented Wilson to go along with Brian and his brothers in The Beach Boys and the incredible Steve Wilson from Porcupine Tree and his associated projects... I've been listening to this and the Gentle Spirit album and Jonathan is certainly riddled with talent and an amazing sense of melody and controlled intensity... Bravo.
yeah and Ross Wilson genius songwriter from aussie 70s hippie band Daddy Cool...Check out their ;Make your stash, based on Holsts Planets.
Second life animation
bellissimo album, sweet deep fresh amazing sound, can't wait to listen to you live in Rome!
SOUL MUSIC
Great album and a fine film to go with it all. Im off to do some yoga...
I simply can't stop listening to this album! Jonathan you are one cool cat and its beyond awesome that you share it here with anyone and everyone. And to anyone who is reading and listening to this, as good as it sounds here, the CD sounds even better. Thank you Jonathan, this an amazing album!
What a wicked album! ✌🏼🤩📿
Best JW album!! genius from start to finish. complete sound TEXTURES experience.
Love the album, not so much the weird animation...
So excited to see Jonathan in Toronto tonight 😎
Smiling in my dreams
retromania rulez
Magnificent
those rare birds are love
LYRICS
(NOT EXACT)
TRAFALGAR SQUARE 0:00
I seen you walking through Trafalgar square
The Billy Shears was on piano
Well, I didn't think you'd notice it
I didn't think you cared
But your flight was fluid
You're a sparrow
I seen you driving down the 405
Hey, were you listening to Zappa?
50 cats of gold in Houdini's house, Rudolph Valentino waits any wonder
He says isn't a miracle we're still floating?
isn't a miracle we're not frozen?
isn't it a miracle we are chosen?
I heard you whistling through Trafalgar square
You and Little Jimmy Dickens
Well, I didn't think the quartet of lions even cared
It was Nelson Rockefeller on the cushion
Yes, he was!
He says isn't it a miracle we're still floating?
Isn't a miracle we're not frozen?
isn't it a miracle we are chosen?
To be moving
Moving something
To be flying, an angel's sea address
To be wanted, wanting nothing
To be drowning
To be soaring, only soaring
To be living
I see you driving, Benedict, late at night
Though Stevie Jones was riding' shotgun
No, I didn't think the Cadillac could float above the ground (with the wrath of god shining down)
No, I didn't think the Cadillac could float above the ground (with the wrath of god shining down)
No, I didn't think the Cadillac could float above the ground (with the gods of love shining down)
(God, God, God, God)
Wrath of god shining down
Wrath of god shining down
(God, God, God, God)
ME
Me, let’s look at me
Did I pirouette again
Out of the dream?
Just me
And all that I could be
And have I sang of peace at least?
Have I helped my fellow man at all?
Just a song with me in question \\
A cry for deeper understanding
Botticelli angels flying
Don’t mind living don’t mind dying
Just a song with me in question
A cry for deeper understanding
Botticelli angels flying
Will i live forever?
pPaying cards with jesus
In some gold salvation army
Making plans for the future
Surrounded by celestial mothers
Where will we be when we are?
I think i need a cup of tea
I need everything
In the leaded mirror i was crying
I think I need a cup of tea
I need everything
Why would we be where we were?
Where will I be when I am?
OVER THE MIDNIGHT
[Verse 1]
We are traveling over the midnight
We are holding our hearts
We are in flight
And our shoes might as well be nails!
In our minds play 1000 pretty songs (for us)
And there’s nothing up here that could be savage
There’s no fear, no hatred, no killers, no guns
And besides, you're wearing red ruby lipstick
So I touch you and smile while you laugh
While these idiots all lose their power
And we dance as we cover our trail
[Chorus]
Yeah this world it is burning
But don't it feel incredible?
Whisper in my ear
And tell me what you see in the flames
[Verse 2]
There's a freak loading out of my driveway
He's a stranger with a kind hippie face
There's the muscled ghost
And it’s riddled with torment
Can you roll babe?
Here's some papers and grass
And besides, we've got the whole town to roam around in
And they've overdubbed our voices in French
To the Beverly Hills for our Margaritas
You look so pretty in the polo, but you’re smashing in pink
[Chorus]
Yeah this world it is burning
But don't it feel incredible?
Whisper in my ear
And tell me what you see in the flames, in the flames
[Outro]
We are traveling over the midnight
We are holding our own, we are in flight
And our shoes they might as well be nails
Our minds play 1000 pretty tunes (for us)
There is nothing up here that could be savage
Theres no fear, no hatred, no killers, no guns
THERE'S A LIGHT
There's a light,
A light that shines on me
And all my friends and family would agree
Hey look, its over you
It's shining brighter still
Hey man its overdue
But its your spotlight still
There is a feeling in the California air, yeah yeah
There is lust for peace and righteusness everywhere
Loves for me and you
For our spirits too
There is a reason that we play among the stars
A reason that we are just who we are
A reason that we thrive
Believe to keep alive
a reason that we sing our song in everything
There is a garden in the expanse of your mind
Yeah the love and thrills speak volumes in time
Flowers will they bloom
And brother so will you
Teach us so we radiate
Return us into our newborn living state
Yeah there is inspiration i everyone you meet
In every human being on the street
They all sing a special song
And when you sing along
Yeah you understood them
With no darker feeling
They knew you'll grow
Though your heart was filled with stone
The chains that were so limiting, well now they're gone
You cut them right in half
With your dreaming with your lap
You are the sky
You are the sun
You are America and you are everyone
You are the miracle of love
All your children at your feet
You are the ocean from above
So dear, so deep
Go ahead and keep us floating in mid air
And set us to the feeling of creation's gracious secrets
Believing in each other as we dance into eternity
There's a light
A light that shines on me
And all my friends and family would agree
Hey look, it's over you
Shining brighter still
Hey man its overdue
But it's your spotlight still
SUNSET BOULEVARD
There's a cherry on top tonight
For men who look like Jesus tonight
If you play your cards right you can be with the son of God tonight
You were thin you were undersized for the spring
You entered your name just as “tight blue jeans”
In my phone I guess you do this kind of thing
Ahh, yeah
We met on the floor
CCR was playing
"Long as I could see the light" they were singing
You gave me the look
That said “lets be animals tonight”
”Right away we were synthesized"
Ah
So we took off
Down sunset boulevard
The back tyres were spinning
the axiles were to beyond
On that boulevard we can be weightless, timeless
Tonight you're so heavy on my mind
I watched you drift behind my eyes
Try and roll with the punches, i roll with the tides
Guess i thought ud be forever youre now with me never
moments of heaven frozen in a van with you girl
i miss the moments of laughter with you
so i turn round to sunset boulevard
and my back tyres spinning
and my axles are tipping me beyond
Hey on that boulevard I can be weightless, timeless
So far down
RARE BIRDS
Rare birds
We are out in space
And at the moment we're weightless
This feeling will last as long as we lie
Charming the views as we orbit the earth
But it is constantly changing
It's living with pain
It's telling us this
We will take off from the belts of radiation
And from the moment of impact
We feel a powerful shockwave from the sun
Colliding, we see the results of beta decay
Still the earth's not withstanding
Demand is growing
We're breaking her back
Falsetto folkies
Pitchfork at your sdide
Your tunes they wil be forgotte
Yeah, out in the desert boy
There's nowhere to hide
See your face in the sun's daily mirror
Yeah, black pirate paradox
Silver and gold floating just over their head
Weeping, once upon an angel we cried
But the whole tone was changing
Our friends, they did not follow us here
Yeah we were rare birds
We made magic on some fallen star
And we were perfectly timeless, loving, working and losing our fear
Well it's a hand me down riddle
With god on it's side
His tone and his trumpet forgotten
Way out in the desert boy there's nowhere to hide
From your face in the sun's daily mirror
Pelican cases on Jesus's flight
No room in the overheads
(La, La, La, La, La, La)
49 HAIRFLIPS
We'll be burning, we''ll be looting
We'l be learning one or two things about life
We should fuck right in front of them
Just to show them our light
We'll be fucking, we'll be sucking
While the rest of them are posting their lives
Ah, these kids'll never rock again
Sign of the times
Yeah, rimming and shooting
I'm so destitute without your love
When will I breathe deep again?
Is there laughter inside?
Spinning and hurting
There's no resolution tonight
You're mother earth ecstasy, call it divine
49 hairflips
49 hairflips on
49 hairflips on dayquil
I believe in you
Yes I do
I believe in you
Do you believe in me?
No, we don't believe, in anything
I believe in you
Do you believe in me?
No, we don't believe in anything
I'm not leaving these walls without the prettiest song I can find
I miss your laugh most of all, I really miss it tonight
MIRIAM MONTAGUE
Mirian Montague, he's looking up at you
And your splitting all the boys into the dream
until they gleam
A communist cosmomanut
The better half of the have me nots
Your son and your daughter
Sweet beauty wrecked with animal abandon
half felt hipster footbus
tripping on posh surrender
spotting unferneath the baby tower
saved for the rainy days
richmond on holiday
pulsationg vampire wax
LIVING WITH MYSELF
I'm leaving with the fear of god every single day
I'm living with myself I know not enough of whom i dspeak
im living like the sherrif man partrolling this dirty bouelvard
Hey look these aviators man completely caught my eye
I'm sailing on the air sometimes
breathing deepest time
when it comes
same old nagged feeling
i need to do wrong
or else i start to beleive them
im living with the purest pleasures as memories
im living with the mess i guess i'll never even clean
im loving when i sldie my hands inside a dirty deck of cards
hey look these aviators come back
i love sailing with the air sometimes
i'll breathe in deep this time
thank you :)
Fantastic musicality
This is amazing
Now I need a long roadtrip.....
Bought this in Telluride while on a road trip, based on a shop owners recommendation, and it played the entire rest of the trip back home to Grand Junction. Great memories!
Same for me
fantastic sounds, superlative production: very good, unbeatable!
Excellent
Awesome ! I got a Eagles vibe off the first track ....
Love love love this!
Heater!
Great album!
Thanks man. See u in brussel ✌️
Yea!!! Thanks Man!!! Power Psychedelyc sound!!!
Yes !!!