Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
“A very violent book,” described Siouxsie Sioux in an NME interview (April 17 1982), referring to Jerzy Kosiński’s controversial Painted Bird.
But there’s also like an abstract theme in that this guy used to collect birds, and when he was feeling really aggressive, or frustrated, he’d paint this bi...
[Verse 1]
On lead-poisoned wings
You try to sing
Freak beak shrieks are thrown
At your confusing hue
The peacock screaming eyes
Show no mercy
Oh, no mercy
[Chorus]
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird
[Verse 2]
The flock will make you choke
On this sadistic joke
And the whippoorwills
They make a din
In laughing unison
You're hitchcock carrion
In laughing unison
You're hitchcock carrion, carry on
[Chorus]
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
Painted bird
[Bridge]
I hear your sorrow
Maybe tomorrow
You'll lose your sorrow
When a fated weather will cleanse away
That painted feather
And all that sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
Ooh
[Verse 3]
A coquette in fur
Purr for the painted bird
Confound that dowdy flock
With a sharp-honed nerve
Because we're painted birds
By our own design
By our own design
And there's no more sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
[Chorus]
Have you heard
About the painted bird
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
We've lost our sorrow
Now it's tomorrow-morrow
No need to hide your feather
Until a fated weather
No more sorrow, sorrow
We've lost our sorrow
Now we're painted birds
Mocking that twisted nerve
Painted birds
It's absurd
Painted Bird was written by Budgie (Drummer) & Siouxsie & Steven Severin & John McGeoch.
Painted Bird was produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Siouxsie and the Banshees released Painted Bird on Fri Nov 05 1982.