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Artist: Siouxsie And The Banshees
Canonical path: /siouxsie-e-the-banshees-musicas/painted-bird
Related lyric paths: 6
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Painted Bird
Read Painted Bird lyrics by Siouxsie And The Banshees on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Painted Bird
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On lead poisoned wings you try to sing
Freak beak shrieks are thrown at your confusing hue
The peacock screaming eyes show no mercy, no mercy
Painted bird it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
The flock will make you choke on this sadistic joke
And the whippoorwills they make a din
In laughing unison you're Hitchcock carrion
In laughing unison you're Hitchcock carrion, carry on
Painted bird it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird it's absurd
Just a tainted bird hurting their twisted nerve
I hear your sorrow
Maybe tomorrow
You'll lose you sorrow
When a fated weather will cleanse away
That painted feather
And all that sorrow
A coquette in fur purr for the painted bird
Confound that dowdy flock with a sharp honed nerve
Because we're painted birds by our own design
By our own design, there's no more sorrow
Have you heard about the painted bird?
Just a tainted bird hunting their twisted nerve
We've lost our sorrow
Now it's tomorrow
No need to hide your feather
Under a fated weather
No more sorrow
Now we're painted birds mocking that twisted nerve
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