“‘Cormorant Bird,’ like a lot of my songs, feels to me as though it came from nowhere,” Regan writes NPR Music via email. “It just evolved into being. I’m talking about inner light prevailing. For me, this song has a certain kinship with some of my earlier songs from The End Of History.”
[Verse 1]
Pulled a rainbow from my skull
And you said, "look at that"
The fire you have within
Will never dim
Its climb
I will always run to you
Run to you upon the ground
On hollow bones
[Chorus]
Cormorant bird
Does not surface
For days
[Verse 2]
The cloud pulled its curtain but the light stayed
Where you sat
In the blackberry bush where the bulbs
Shatter white
I will always run to you
Run to you upon the ground
On hollow bones
[Chorus]
Cormorant bird
Does not surface
For days
(Ooohh Ooohh)
(La la la la)
[Outro]
We both say nothing
Nothing has no wings
To the melody of our secret cormorant sins
Fionn Regan released Cormorant Bird on Fri Apr 14 2017.