The Black Bird, The Dark Slope Lyrics - Hello Sadness - Los Campesinos!

The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight 

My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in 

Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers 

But the brushstrokes feel like hearth pokes into my skin 

The black bird feasts upon my guts and bears its beak to fight 

My shoulders back, my jaw pushed out, my stomach sucked in 

Its wingtips push across my lungs and fill them full of feathers 

Now they poke between my teeth and that's why I thirst 

When he flies me to the top there's nothing but the fog 

A heart of stone, egg shell for bones, they lead you to be lost 

The dark slope drags you down 

The black bird is a part of me, so sad to see 

So sad to be me 

I ask before I go for you to drop a lit match down my throat 

And smoke the bastard out or burn him to a crisp 

Cause I'm already carrion, been eaten from the inside too long 

This black bird wants to rip me limb from limb 

The black bird dips its beak in blood and writes its thoughts in cursive 'cross 

The bones that are its jailer and my ribcage 

And when you turn me inside out, believe in me without a doubt 

The words were all of his and none of mine