Intro
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All nineteen birds flying fast up
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They are dead they are not alive
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Bad bird you flap off you beak
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High and mighty beady bird eye
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Featherless me and I be all glad on my own
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Doggy-eyed graceless in my home
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Steps in wire
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High and mighty beady bird eye
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They're not alive
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They eat no love, they curl up in their hollow tree
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And leak the sap that bad birds do
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Poison in the drops of black and white pearl
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On the 'leaving the cinema' girl
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Steps in wire
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High and mighty beady bird eye
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They're not alive
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Don't linger on not pure gold in your hand
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And fly again to the end of England
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Sad birds flying through the famous London fog
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There is no God
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There is no 'alive'
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In my menagerie
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Sad birds they are not alive
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Nineteen birds flying fast up
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They are not alive
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They're not alive
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They're not alive
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(chords repeat - fade out)