Yet none of us will ever be on common ground. Now my soul is in my cereal bowl filled with Cheerios, and I suppose it goes to show what is up is sometimes down. No longer in self-control, no longer am I whole. Knock on wood on the wooden telephone pole. Ghosts on telephone lines and spirits reading newspapers to dirty old crows, and I finally see all I want to know. You see, years ago I had a brain transplant and now it's abnormal, and now I only see weird paranormal. Thunder in the distant white and lightning lit the blue and I knew what I've always known that newspapers could cover a whole skyscraper and the electrical transformer above was the ark of the covenant that we've all respected and loved. Though nearby the Woodpecker knocked on wood. Democracy anywhere else may perish and die in obituaries or stock market lies, but pages one through three can always bring a small surprise. Philosophy begins with the letter P and ends with why. Although on his high plateau the strange man read the bird everything, you know. There's an old saying… a bird on a wire is better than two birds in a bush, but all it takes is a gentle wind to give you a push."Īnd with that said the black crow flew away, he'll come back another day. And knowing that I respected his telephonic religion. I nodded with somewhat understanding, knowing well of his outstanding display of his portrayal of the common pigeon. Not shockingly of course, yet it enforces an enchanting flow that would make many horses neigh and gallop away." You see the electrical current felt on my hindquarters makes reading the comics quite delightful down below. He called down quite so, "It's the only way to read the morning paper, you know. I asked below wanting to know, "Why do you sit so high? Don't you know that you can fall down and die?" He's just a finely dressed man sitting in the sky. Levitation in that elevation is hard to understand, but again he's just a strange man sitting away on a telephone line reading the morning times.Īlas, I myself, am quite flabbergasted at seeing such a spectacle as that.
Though it's hard to admit from a certain standpoint where I see him sit that the man must be an Acrobat or so. Yet wait who is that with the crow up on the wire so high? Is that some man reading the morning paper? Probably planning some awful money caper. The Woodpecker nearby on the wooden telephone pole would debate, lost in his own world thinking telephone poles had tree worms which certainly confirms to no terms their brains are in their beak, quite bleak. Some information was adapted from Discogs and AllMusic.Bird on a wire why won't he move? Does he have something to prove? He sits so high looking down on our humanity probably thinking that our society is complete insanity.Ĭrow, crow what do you know, one day it'll snow and I'll be sipping Bordeaux. Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.
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See original reviews for full articles. Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) is put in witness protection after he helps the FBI bust drug dealer Eugene Sorenson (David Carradine).Again, some of the songs have a pronounced R&B element." They have a mature, yet still pop-friendly sound. Most of the songs sound tailor-made for adult alternative radio. Mike Joseph of PopMatters says, " Bird on a Wire, Lightman’s sophomore effort, doesn’t deviate much from the formula of her debut. Marisa Brown of AllMusic writes, " Bird on a Wire's an impressive piece of work from a talented artist who's grown completely into her voice and herself, subtly complex while still retaining the passion and immediacy that makes it such a good listen, touching listeners emotionally as well as intellectually, a feat that's truly hard to attain and absolutely deserves to be praised." Filled with insightful lyrics and mature pop, Lightman refuses to be pigeonholed by her teenybopper appearance, skillfully genre-jumping with the confidence of a veteran"
of Okayplayer begins her review with, "The sophomore effort from Toby Lightman is an exciting mix of country blues, rock and R&B.