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walking
I’m a black gold, I’m a wildfire
Like a barn owl with a midnight cry
With a black flag and a fire in my bones
I’ll be running through the night till

recount the history
Rocking chairs upon the porch the two told their love story

As I recall we were arguin'
Arguin'?!
About what?
Owls
Barn owls!
Now what

of rules
I'm dreaming of hyenas
Dreaming of the barn owl
Dreaming of baboons

Keep me guessing
Never let me feel secure
You love me too much
You make me

Owl in the Barn - by Sam Baardman

There's an owl in the barn, blinking in the moonlight
It's flown in through the window that I can never shut right

I Tried to scratch the surface but I broke the Goddamn mirror
Had a talk with a barn owl, everything became so much clearer
My eyelids are swirled

there was a barn owl trapped in the rafters
the ground underneath us was wet and cold
we heard the owl thrashing about
trying desparately to get out

Money For Dope

They Might Be Giants

Album Raises New and Troubling Questions

2011

Preserved barn owl skeleton (Check!) Fake mustache (Check!) Bucket of lye (Check!) Money for dope Money for dope 
Aw Aw Money for dope (Check!) Banjolin

bring all the family, invite all your friends
Here's to a night that will never end

Apple, peach and pumpkin pie
The barn owl's dancing, he's winking his

Well, you're crazy like a barn owl
Laughing hyena growl
Eracist, eracist

Hipster jackal bark and snark
Sniffin' in the car park
Eracist,

tonight

Hidden in the breath of the winter
Whispers of the stream flowing by
In the stillness of the night and the ice in the light 
Echoes of the barn

Wren's Nest

Vic Chesnutt

Silver Lake

2003

on the flint river
Like at the mica mines
Conversations escalated
Voices trembled and cracked

The barn owl's white belly is like a flash bulb 
Instantly

upwards
telling it true with a smile
that the blues don't walk this way

what the soft morning light will bring to bear
the screech of a barn owl
calls with

shouldn't be at our house
I wouldn't step too far out
You're wood for us to carve out
Eyes widen like a barn owl
There's no time left for scars now
Been

I hear that barn owls can mate for life so what if I found my other half?
I hear people talkin’ about this love thing, what if I found one that will

tired of the trekking and the unrelenting pace
Tired of the unpronounceable incomprehensible vowels
The startled looking barn owls
And the killer whales

A giant barn owl or a soaring crane      
Or worse, a demon of unknown shape?
 
His red eyes lurk in the dark         
Watching us, watching us
Time's

that comes after
Life in an old coal town

Here's where you smoked your first cigarette
Where the windows are brokedn now
There are barn owls in

House in the prairie
Where they got married
Laurie put him to the side
All his defenses 
Built up just like fences

Eyes like a barn owl
Thrown in

their true perfection
And in my heart I am always shouting...

Deep in Matilija canyon
Where we always seem to go
Barn owls and coyotes are in fashion

when the fire expires
When the barn owl cries
The agony starts over by the night
Tonight I will hold your sword
And I close the door never to return

I

NOON
Dusty cacti, jackrabbits and barn owls
awaiting the sun to slip away
unshaven chins sparkling under the light
of a dead land.
Let this harvest take

We uprooted the cedar
Now there's nothing left to feel for
The barn owl took the rat's nest
I guess I'm fucked if I'm up next
I wrote my stories

(Ask your favor)
Winter blackbirds (Ask your favor)
Running rabbit (Ask your favor)
Deafening barn owl (Ask your favor)
Biting cold wind (Ask your favor)

of blue
What a beautiful sight
Sing a song with the night time
Barn Owl sings a song with the night time

These are the birds' songs
They'll sing all night