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"Thanks for the wild turkey
And the passenger pigeons
Destined to be shat out
Through wholesome American guts

Thanks for a continent to despoil

A Thanksgiving Prayer

William S. Burroughs

Dead City Radio

1990

For John Dillinger and hope he is still alive
Thanksgiving Day, November Twenty-eighth, 1986

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons

the Spring

Not a day goes by
That the passenger pigeon's alive
It's got me so fucked up
My god it's got me so fucked up - it seams
That the iridescence

the passenger pigeon 
Gone like the ozone, gone like the Amazon, gone gone gone gone gone  
 
Now I got to get it out of my system 
I'm a savage and I got

with a broken dream
I can walk on water with a frozen sea
Pushing daisy petals, heaven sent potpourri
Stumble on a field of open green
Sent a passenger

fifty feet high
I seen a passenger pigeon flying by I spit on the ground and he shit in my eye I said
Mister Frog you gotta make this stop he said
Lick my

Tower... same mistake
Cocoanut Grove... same mistake
Bhopal... the same mistake
The Windrush... same mistake again


Passenger pigeons... same mistake
wooly

passenger pigeons to deliver my novels
Gotta find a red leopard spotted pure albino giraffe
Gotta find an armadillo with razor spikes on it's back
I find

of a film
All dried out, congealed, and worn down to the grain
So she mailed her decision
By passenger pigeon
Grabbed her pet theories and hopped on a plane

you region by region
I left you, so I become a passenger pigeon
Still remember the horror in Djibouti
With the French legion

What can I do for you
They

You had the postal service
And the telephone wire
There were passenger pigeons to
Take your words up higher
There were walkie talkies fiber optic

Passenger Pigeons

The Handsome Family

Twilight

2001

a billion birds flew in
My hollow, dying heart
The first time I touched your arm

Once there were a billion passenger pigeons
So many flew by they

There's a War Going on for Your Mind

Flobots

Fight with Tools

2008

throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it's raining pornography
Lovers take

give the machine that has everything
And even internet shopping is putting ice on the wing
Maybe a passenger pigeon tied to a rocket religion
If I could

Tragedy minus glory equals just another story
Like the prisoners that stayed behind in Plato's allegory
Or the poor forgotten second-last passenger

Descent into the Maelstrom

Tourniquet

Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance

Passenger pigeons blackened the sky
Never a chance we would say goodbye
Oh how I wish I could see one fly

[Chorus]
You were gone before we even knew you

the site of me in foreigns
Silhouettes of mixed pigeons in the passenger goin she can really suck a dick head and shoulders early mourning
Playing mc Corman

No Pigeons

Sporty Thievz

Street Cinema

1998

Nada  Franchise 
Nada  Shotcallers 
Yeah  Sporty Thievz  Sporty Thievz 
Uh huh  nada 

A Pigeon is a girl who be walkin' by 
My rimmed up blue

Nada, Franchise
Nada, Shotcallers
Yeah, Sporty Thievz, Sporty Thievz
Uh huh, Nada

A Pigeon is a girl who be walkin' by
My rimmed up blue, brand new

be squawking like pigeons
I see in the future mask on mask off when I handle the business
These niggas gon get alll offensive
In the end I'm a get

through the city with the top pulled back 
Money on the passenger 
Yo bitch in the back 

Money on the dash
She gone buss it for a stack


Riding through

The World Ain't Slowin' Down

Ellis Paul

Translucent Soul

1998

hadn't been trying
The train came in breathless,
The passenger's restless
You say, "Baby, you'll never change"

You gotta get gone, you gotta get

bread come watch these bitches turn to pigeons
Rather see my dawg ball in the penitentiary
All my dawgs balling even in the pen (Oooh)

It ain't no love

a feel
Got what I got and then I dipped
Pretty lil bitch on my passenger side
She say she ready to slide
She say she ready to die
I got her coming alive