Roadkill

Suede * Track #8 On The Blue Hour

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Album The Blue Hour

ALBUM

Suede

2018

Roadkill by Suede

Release Date

Fri Sep 21 2018

Performed by

Suede

Produced by

Alan Moulder

Writed by

Neil Codling & Brett Anderson

About

“Roadkill” is the eighth track on Suede’s 2018 album, The Blue Hour. The track is a unique venture for the band as it is their first fully spoken-word song to appear on an album. Originally titled “Dead Bird”, Brett’s poem recalls a tale of him finding a bird’s corpse on the road, read over keyboard...

Roadkill Lyrics

[Spoken]
Today I found a dead bird
Crushed into the wealdland clay
Brittle bones like snapped twigs
Velvet for the scurrying things

I cross myself, forlorn you lie
Scraped and dressed by the wind
Savaged by the tyres and tossed in the tar
Broken on the English dirt
A carcass for the carrion crow
And for the beaks that peck
Flesh beneath my flesh
Soil beneath my soil
Today I found a dead bird

Blind are the brokers and the unskilled workers
Blind are the brokers and the unskilled workers
Your wings beneath their wheels
Your wings beneath their wheels
Blind are the brokers and the unskilled workers
Blind are the brokers and the unskilled workers
Your bones beneath their heels
Today I found a dead bird

Roadkill Q&A

Who wrote Roadkill's ?

Roadkill was written by Neil Codling & Brett Anderson.

Who produced Roadkill's ?

Roadkill was produced by Alan Moulder.

When did Suede release Roadkill?

Suede released Roadkill on Fri Sep 21 2018.

What did Suede say about "Roadkill"?

There was a Bat for Lashes song called “Widows Peak” on the last album which we really liked, and one of my favourite Crass tracks is “Reality Asylum”, which is a spoken word thing, a very, very, very dark, sinister-sounding track, and I just wanted that kind of feel. It was a bit of a happy acciden...

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