Turkey Vulture Song (Demo) 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 the liquor in our bars

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

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