Turkey Vulture Song Lyrics

Turkey vulture, turkey vulture, spread your wings for me

Like a mistress on linen, or floating music sheets

I see your sisters crawl through the trees, shedding their skin to cover eves

Turn the brown back into green, undress your leaves onto me

Climbing the trees, all wet with sap, to desperately reach to the mast

Find the corpses scattered round, and break the longing Winter fast

Orbiting like distant stars in a sky so putrid, black and far

Suck the carbon out of cars as we drink in our bars

Well you give us some worth while we wait for the earth

To speak her acid comedy

You eat our stomachs to grow your beautiful feathered bodies

And as our faces turn green with envy

You show no trace of vanity

You shine with true humanity

Soaring through blue infinity

Turkey vulture, turkey vulture, symbols of our twee

Our awful obsessions like severed limbs in the breeze

Romanticize our own demise and carry it into the skies

Against the sunshine in the day, memento mori on full display

Sick perversions in every war, laughing and honored fanfare

Watch as faces run with tears, and forget that people were ever there

Find a use for our dispose on a topic we so often loathe

Tear the threads, then unclothe stage lights on a lynching show

Well you give us some worth while we wait for the earth

To speak her acid comedy

You eat our stomachs to grow your beautiful feathered bodies

And as dirt falls upon divinity

Pulling down into the empty

Our bones will shimmer endlessly

Spinning forwards into memories