From the songwriter’s Substack page about “ I Saw Another Bird”:
“Out in front of the house I crunch around in the gravel moving pieces of wood from pile to pile between trunks of giant trees. I clank tools, I rummage in a cardboard box of nails, I slam a car door. I check my texts, I refold a tarp...
So what? I saw another raven
I actually see them all the time
And I hear their voices talking
About what the rest of us don't know
I'm a fool on the ground below them
On my phone beneath the sky
But I know there's no one walking, really
Through these dreams that I have
In the daylight I do all this work that needs to get done
And I leave the mind of night
I can't remember having crossed a threshold
Between the dust and the alive
So when a raven starts a conversation
I just stand there and blank out
But I'm wrong!
There is another world inside this one
It shines:
These birds trying for my attention
And my wordless reply
I Saw Another Bird was written by Phil Elverum.
I Saw Another Bird was produced by Phil Elverum.
Mount-eerie released I Saw Another Bird on Fri Nov 01 2024.