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Artist: Alkaline Trio
Canonical path: /alkaline-trio/blackbird
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Blackbird
Read Blackbird lyrics by Alkaline Trio on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Blackbird
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She's black and red and built just like a spy plane
Extracting information from my mind
The photographs she takes into her mainframe
For your eyes only lonely cold war time
Now after all the city falls just like the night or an angel does
Leave me here alone to collect my things
She sees music in the terror she brings
And like a technicolor dream
The light in your eyes blinded me
From the perch she softly smiled
My blackbird softly smiled
She's built for speed and made for keeping secrets
Stark and dark against enemy skies
For miles above the earth no-one could detect her
My blackbird blows a kiss that ends mankind
And all this time there is no crime or treason that she hasn't seen
SR-71 Blackbird from the heaven above
She's the only one
The only spy I ever loved
She's the only spy I ever loved
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