The Weather Station - Ignorance lyrics
[The Weather Station - Ignorance lyrics]
I was woken up in the early morning
After my flight, by a sound I could not grasp
I did not recognize
Running like water, two toned, and tangled
Like a briar holding many sounds all at once
It was a magpie you told me
As you handed me a coffee
The black and white bird you
See in city parks
And you pointed out the window
Looking straight in at me
A black and white bird sitting on the fence
I thought about the man who
Called it a magpie
Confronted by the great expanse
Of his ignorance
He wanted to name it, to detain it
Forever in that small phrase
It seemed like a shame
To give it a name
But then again
I don't understand anything the
Way I'm supposed to
I drag every river for meaning
Scrape my hand on every ceiling
I never know what to say or not say
What to honour or betray in any given day
But I never got used to
The sound of the magpie
It set my skin on edge
It called like a child
Like a dog, like the wind caught in a fence
When we talked it interrupted
And I would never know what it meant
After my flight, by a sound I could not grasp
I did not recognize
Running like water, two toned, and tangled
Like a briar holding many sounds all at once
It was a magpie you told me
As you handed me a coffee
The black and white bird you
See in city parks
And you pointed out the window
Looking straight in at me
A black and white bird sitting on the fence
I thought about the man who
Called it a magpie
Confronted by the great expanse
Of his ignorance
He wanted to name it, to detain it
Forever in that small phrase
It seemed like a shame
To give it a name
But then again
I don't understand anything the
Way I'm supposed to
I drag every river for meaning
Scrape my hand on every ceiling
I never know what to say or not say
What to honour or betray in any given day
But I never got used to
The sound of the magpie
It set my skin on edge
It called like a child
Like a dog, like the wind caught in a fence
When we talked it interrupted
And I would never know what it meant