Bambara - Birds
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Bambara - "Birds" from the 2022 Love On My Mind EP on Wharf Cat.
Brooklyn-based band Bambara — a trio of twins Reid and Blaze Bateh with their childhood friend William Brookshire on bass — have just released their six-song mini-album, Love Is On My Mind, in advance of their European tour with IDLES.
On today's Song of the Day, Reid shares in a press release, “‘Birds’ compresses the events of many months into three and a half minutes, spanning time when the couple we follow throughout the record are growing closer. On the train, they fall in and out of sleep, reliving shared moments. Then a childhood memory bubbles up to the surface of the protagonist’s mind, revealing his complex relationship to the idea of love.”
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| 0:00.0 | Spirits |
| 0:07.0 | Time and year will do a shiver on the beach |
| 0:11.0 | Baby birds begin to fall out of the sight |
| 0:15.0 | Well trees will sometimes win and reign |
| 0:19.0 | We grab a fizz and find a place to watch the plains |
| 0:23.0 | And one night we saw a bull and tried to run flames |
| 0:28.0 | And we said they make it when they don't |
| 0:36.0 | Hey, you got a point too |
| 0:39.0 | To try to document your visions of the truth |
| 0:43.0 | Cut your teeth, don't create good dreams for the locals |
| 0:48.0 | It's happened everywhere we go |
| 0:51.0 | You will to call me if you try to cut the bones |
| 0:55.0 | And the bone you killed broke my nose |
| 0:58.0 | Was glad to close by another day of woes |
| 1:08.0 | Hey! |
| 1:15.0 | Now you'll be cracked all the time |
| 1:21.0 | I will call myself a surprise |
| 1:27.0 | Hey! |
| 1:30.0 | With your head on my knees |
| 1:38.0 | And I close my eyes |
| 1:51.0 | I saw a flicker of your face |
| 1:54.0 | Above a candle with a sticker of a saying |
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