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Artist: The Starting Line
Canonical path: /starting-line-the/birds
Related lyric paths: 6
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Birds
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Birds
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Spend the day in your bed takin' medicine
If that's the only thing that keeps you calm
Well one of these days you gotta get up, and get out
There is a purpose for all of my sitting here
If you can't understand, well you could
If you could just stretch your attention span now, for this song
Well I hope that this is what you would want
Cause my throat will be the first thing to go
And I hope that someday I'll hear everyone sing
Is that all you got, turn it up, keep it coming
(ooh ooh)
'Cause I got the words to keep the birds hummin'
(ooh ooooh)
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
You spend your life with a pen and a microphone
And you looked down on everything you could
In case somebody gives them a second glimpse now, for this long
I hope that this is what you would want
'Cause my throat will be the first thing to go
When I'm old, I'll remember when everyone sang
Is that all you got, turn it up, keep it coming
(ooh ooh-oooh)
Cause I got the words to keep the birds hummin'
(oo-oh ooooh)
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
Let's go!
(ooo-ooo-ooh ooo-ooo-ooh oooooh-ooh-ooooooh)
Is that all you got, turn it up, keep it coming
(ooh ooh-oooh)
'Cause I got the words to keep the birds hummin
(oo-oh ooooh)
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong with everyone
Is that all you got, turn it up, keep it coming
(ooh ooh-oooh)
'Cause I got the words to keep the birds hummin'
(oo-oh ooooh)
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta be something wrong
Well there's gotta be something
Or there's gotta, there's gotta be...
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