Noble Beast

Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast was released earlier this year and so far has yet to disappoint. I'm a big fan and am hoping to attend his show in late February at the Murray theater.

The point of this post is to celebrate perhaps the most creative and interesting song lyrics I have come across in a long time. On the track Anonanimal, Bird creates an enormous play on words from the English language, meanwhile telling a story. And these aren't the typical "play on words" type words; I mean this is like hypercreativity and an overabundance of free time at their all-time high. But I think it's sheer genius. Take a gander:



Lyrics:
I see a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
And that'll be the end of me.

While the vicious fish was caught unawares in the tenderest of tendrils
Underneath her tender gills

I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to the music halls
I will become this animal
Anomalous appendages
A non-animal

Hold on just a second
Don't tell me this one you know
I know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
Hold on just a second
Don't tell me this one you know
i know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
I know this one

Underneath the stalactites
The troglobites lost their sight
Uh oh

The seemingly innocuous plecostomus
though posthumus
They talk to us
They talk too much

See a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
That'll be the end of me
Vicious fish was caught unawares
In the tend'rest tendrils
Underneath her tender gills and

I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to a music hall
I will become this animal

Anomalous appendages
A non-animal

Buy his new album! And his old ones.