Lyrics:
White-throated Sparrow
In the winter,
White-fronted Geese
In the winter—
Why white?
Why
Why white?
Snow Bunting
In the winter,
Snowy Owl
In the winter—
Why white?
Oh, Miss Elphaba, the things one hears these days
Dreadful things
I've heard of an Ox
A professor from Quox
No longer permitted to teach
Who has lost all powers of speech
And an owl in Munchkin Rock
A vicar with a thriving flock
Forbidden to preach
Now he only can screech
Only rumors, but still
Enough to give pause
To anyone with paws
Something bad is happening in Oz
Something bad?
(La la la la, la la la)
Now listen:
If you're a robin, hawk or owl
Pigeon, crow or waterfowl
Sparrow, duck or cockatoo
Hey, listen up! This song's
For you
Sing it!
We animals are now being blamed for everything that goes wrong
Forced from our jobs, told to keep silent
I've heard of an Ox, a professor from Quox
No longer permitted to teach
Who has lost all powers of speech
And an Owl in Munchkin Rock
A vicar with a thriving flock
Forbidden to preach
Now he only can screech
Only rumors but still enough to give pause
To anyone with paws
Something bad is happening in Oz
Something bad happening in-
That's it, I'm leaving Oz
While I can still speak the word goodbye
Doctor Dillamond, if animals are losing the ability to speak, leaving Oz, then
Someone's got to tell the Wizard
That's why we have a Wizard
So nothing bad
Perhaps you're right
Nothing all that bad
Nothing truly ba-ah-ah-ad
Sorry, bad
Must be catching a cold
It couldn't happen here
In Oz
Chorus- Danced Through the night in his Thoughts Screech of the owl, Screech of the owl ,Screech of the owl ,Torment Tortured Terror Yet there Is light Echoes and screams His heart breaks Mirror shattered in pieces Hiding from his own reflection Danced Through the night in his Thoughts Screech of the owl Screech of the owl Screech of the owl Torment Tortured Terror Yet there Is light
V1 I grew up overshadowed by fear,
Echoes and screams, Mirror shattered in pieces Hiding from his own mind, His heart breaks ,Mirror shattered in pieces ,Hiding from his own reflection.
The people on the sidewalk were traced in chalk
Whale embryos filled your enormous room
Screech-owl kachinas built your spiritual room
We were kings, kings!
We were kings, kings!
Down by the river
The water's cold
Used to have a girl but that's alright
She came to me in a dream
And slipped away like a running stream
The hours of silence
In the light of the moon
Brings to me a sense of ease
There's nothing else that I could do
For that woman won't be pleased
I see her running
But I'm not the same
I've chased after pleasure
To bury my pain
But it's resurrected
When I say her name
My love and regret are one in the same
The scream of a raven
The screech of an owl
A heartbroke and lonesome coyote howl
Those old Hartford records that we used to play
And the silence when she went away
A flower illustrated in bloom
Floating on a wisp of consciousness
She rides innocently down the river to
The place where the light lives
And shrugs off enchantment with a sigh
Dreaming from the first moment of her life
Unheard songs bathed in silver ring out as
Morning rolls into the endless
I see her running
But I'm not the same
I've chased after pleasure
To bury my pain
But it's resurrected
When I say her name
My love and regret are one in the same
I keep wandering back
To a place in my mind
Where moonlight reflections return to her eyes
To gaze at the water once more
Before turning again to the sky
Down by the river
The water's cold
Used to have a girl but that's alright
She came to me in a dream
And slipped away like a running stream
This land should have been our land
You took it for your land
You got a use for every stream and tree
When I go up the highway old trees are dying up that way
You pump out the water and you sold it back to me
You build mansions in the city, prisons in Mojave
Bet you're quite a pillar of high society
You call it law and order, I call it dirty money
You'd lock the young ones down or send 'em off to war
But it's no hard feelings, no offense taken
You're just a ripple on the shifting sands of time
No bad karma, no curses on ya
You'll go your way and I'll go mine
You remind me of a fellow I heard of in the city
Nervous kind of fellow he loved money like you do
But he derived no satisfaction, so he jumped clear out the window
And they tell me that he bounced a time or two
So take in mind the credo of a jackass prospector
Take what you need but please leave the rest alone
Try and live harmonic with old Mother Nature
And you'll remain in grace after you have gone
Well I don't get many callers, that little road goes nowhere
I've been here forty years, seems like yesterday
There's an old screech owl, living in my chimney
And I don't build no fires and he keeps the mice away
No hard feelings, no offense taken
You're just a ripple on shifting sands of time
No bad karma, no curses on ya
You'll go your way, I'll go mine
Well it's no hard feelings, no offense taken
You're just a murmur on the whispering sands of time
No bad karma, no curses on ya
You'll go your way, I'll go mine
Oh, the owls, the owls, with their feathers of silk
The owls they mock me and have stolen my pills
Oh the owls, the owls, with their shining green eyes
The owls will save me, if not today then tonight
Your dad, I'm sure, he tried his best
He thought you'd be better off living with your grandmother
He didn't realize that she had already given up
Baby, your family, they are just losers
I've become such a wolf around you
My thoughts go dark and dull, out of focus
Have no peace in my mind
Because you
You've touched me
The screech owls are going insane outside my house
It is the season for trouble and self destruction
All of my friends, they are falling apart
But not me, I'm in control
Remember the exquisite corpse that we created together
We laughed at the time, it seemed so impenetrable
But reading it now I think I understand
What it is that we are trying to steal from each other
I've become such a wolf around you
My thoughts go dark and dull, out of focus
Have no peace in my mind
Because you
You've touched me
Time stands still as I remember the thrill
Of wind in my face as I'm biking downhill
Just a kid on his own with freedom to roam
With time for big thoughts before he's grown
The brook's running clear where the big oaks grow
Listen to screech owls in the place I know
See the shooting stars as darkness grows
Hear the whip-o-will call in the place I know
You can smell the scent of the new mown hay
And see a morning rainbow to start the day
I still hear a friend call, Can you come out to play
And taste the cookie dough before heading on our way
The brook's running clear where the big oaks grow
Listen to screech owls in the place I know
See the shooting stars as darkness grows
Hear the whip-o-will call in the place I know
The place I know seems so far away now
As traffic flows and deadlines are met somehow
Everyone's on a phone with results hard to show
As memories take me back to that place I know
The brook's running clear where the big oaks grow
Listen to screech owls in the place I know
See the shooting stars as darkness grows
Hear the whip-o-will call in the place I know
I shave the wall
So you can pretend I'm not here at all
But I'd rather be louder than the loudest scream
Your sweet requests
Ambiguous at best
Rising roar <owl in echo
To another shore <owl in echo
A generous fist <owl in echo
A burning itch <owl in echo
We bend like willows <owl in echo
Soft and forever <owl in echo
Or break like branches dry and brittle <owl in echo
Owl in echo
I let it stand
My message is louder than your win
Dials turned to screech
It's still a struggle to be seen
So frankenstein this frown
To the best smile I own
Rising roar <owl in echo
To another shore <owl in echo
A generous fist <owl in echo
A burning itch <owl in echo
We bend like willows <owl in echo
Soft and forever <owl in echo
Or break like branches dry and brittle <owl in echo
Owl in echo
We could all take a dare
We could be less cynical
Haunted houses, creak and groan,
Echoing secrets, long unknown.
(Pre-Chorus)
Black cats prowling, owls screech,
In the shadows, danger preach.
(Pre-Chorus)
Black cats prowling, owls screech,
In the moonlight's shadows, danger preach.
Was what he said to himself
As he hopped on a branch
He started to dance
Took a kingly breath,
Let out the screech that he was poked at, it went something like this:
So the little owl thought
“I’m not that talented but I have something to say
I’m not that skilled but I will find a way”
Passionate and curious
Deliberate and furious
Loving and delirious, his screech echoed away
So he took to the forest
A coyote approached him.
I wish something would lift me, with each breath
To a place where I am absent, beyond reach
Those typewriters, vinyls, and planets, each
Spin under the devil's tongue, a silent screech
I wish something would lift me, with each breath
To a place where I am absent, beyond reach
Those typewriters, vinyls, and planets, each
Spin under the devil's tongue, a silent screech
Lurking in the shadows staring back at me
The ghost of heroes that haunt my dreams
The night is dark
The night is dark
The night is dark
The night is dark and full of terrors
Hear the owls midnight screech
Taste the fear of mortality
The night is dark
The night is dark
The night is dark
The night is dark and full of terrors
Laid beside a cesspool, a sluggish stream
The vultures circling, but he is yet to cease breathing
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with insatiable hunger
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with a craving of emptiness
Breathes upon him, filling herself in his mouth
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with insatiable hunger
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with a craving of emptiness
Breathes upon him, filling herself in his mouth
Channeled through those hollowed veins
The craving of nothingness
Filled with the unquenchable thirst
A hunger that drives him to devour himself
Parchment skin reveals the bowels within him
Channeled through those hollowed veins
The craving of nothingness
Filled with the unquenchable thirst
He must devour himself
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with insatiable hunger
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with a craving of emptiness
Breathes upon him, filling herself in his mouth
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with insatiable hunger
Starvation, appetence and famine made flesh
Filled with a craving of emptiness
Breathes upon him, filling herself in his mouth
Channeled through those hollowed veins
The craving of nothingness
Filled with the unquenchable thirst
A hunger that drives him to devour himself
Parchment skin reveals the bowels within him
The overhanging hew where hunger lies within
Wasted jaws and a shame too late
Hiding guilt on a burdened face
To explore an unpeopled night
Through vacuous realms and regions void
One's path in the woodland winds
Beneath the moons receiving light
When Jove has mantled his heaven in shade
And night seals up the beauty in the world
At entrance to the abyss
Vengeful cares on couches lie, Old age abides
Pale diseases, hunger, a temptress to all of the crime
Want, base and vile, two dreaded shapes to see
Then sleep deaths next of kin
The dole-bringing owl utters its cry
The sad omen of the screech-owl sounds
Dread stalks there with looming fear
And crushing pain
The dole-bringing owl utters its cry
The sad omen of the screech-owl sounds
Dread stalks there with looming fear
And crushing pain
Dread stalks there with looming fear
And crushing pain
A dark figure stands on the edge of my memory
Silent and wistful he stands all alone
But I can’t tell why he never comes closer
Never comes back to the place he called home
Out in the night where the shadows are falling
Out of the night comes the screech of an owl
Whispering softly the wind it is sighing
Ice fingers clutching my heart and my soul
He stands by a river that’s running beside him
Hands in his pockets he calls out my name
But I pretend to myself I can’t hear him
For the questions and answers are always the same
Out in the night where the shadows are falling
Out of the night comes the screech of an owl
Whispering softly the wind it is sighing
Ice fingers clutching my heart and my soul
What is doing here back in my memory
Stirring the waters that long have been still
He is looking for something that’s best left behind him
Best left behind in the cold and the chill
Now a young woman is standing beside him
Red hair and brown eyes and palest of skin
Now he is taking his hands from his pockets
Smiling he holds her in his arms again
Out in the night where the shadows are falling
Out of the night comes the screech of an owl
Whispering softly the wind it is sighing
Ice fingers clutching my heart and my soul
Doc and Jasper wander into owl grotto
That's the motto Jasper says,
Try out every plan in your head.
Doc says “there's something funny about these trees don't you think?”
Spooky nights spooky frights oh spooky nights
Monsters creeping in the shadows
Boo-ah Boo-ahh
Witches fly across the moonlight
Pumpkin grins guard every door
I think the goblins are coming for sure
And there are spooky frights on Halloween night
Halloween ghost creeping by
Skeletons dance reach the sky
Bats take flight in the dark
Only shadows that will spark
Eerie sounds wicked bounds oh eerie sounds
Owls are hooting from the treetops
Screech-ah Screech-ahh
Cats with eyes like glowing embers
Night so dark magic's in the air
I see the witches brewing their lair
And there are eerie sounds on Halloween night
Halloween ghost creeping by
Skeletons dance reach the sky
Bats take flight in the dark
Only shadows that will spark
Mystery in the moon's embrace
Haunted whispers in a race
Under stars the cauldron boils
Halloween's canvas full of coils
Halloween ghost creeping by
Skeletons dance reach the sky
Bats take flight in the dark
Only shadows that will spark
Screech Owl, Eagle Rise
Keen Eye, Earth and Sky Align
He’ll b there to turn it black
Clip my wings
Obstruct my path
My burning fight you’ll know
With a whisper, you’re only a ghost
You hold me close, you’ve known me so long
Graze past death, new doors to open
Refine my will within
Breathe out my son, don’t give in
You know me well
You know me so well
Small tree, the light bursts
It journeys toward
Healing Hands
There yours, there mine
Fight on, fight on, fight on
When the moon is highest
To the family plot I go
Renouncing my religion
Give myself to the devil and remove my clothes
Singing, "pulley-bone, holy-ghost, double-yolk"
A mystery man beside me
Chanting sayings old as he pulls me in
Assembling evil spirits
After three nights, I will complete my pledge
Singing, "pulley-bone, holy-ghost, double-yolk"
Wash my face in water, and cry, "out I go and touch nowhere"
I am the devil's daughter
With the screech owl tellin' you death is near
Singing, "pulley-bone, holy-ghost, double-yolk"
Singing, "pulley-bone, holy-ghost, double-yolk"
Singing, "pulley-bone, holy-ghost..."
with the clock on the wall still ticking
and no place to run
thinking no one's missing you
she is standing by the roadside
to the great highway 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 a warning shot
nowhere is just an open door
to the great highway upwards
tell me true with a smile
that the blues don't walk this way
you dreamed your lover's dream
to weak to be woken
a cat that makes your bed
a stray dog that turns away
with the clock on the wall
look here standing by the roadside
to the great highway upwards
tell me true with a smile
that the blues don't walk this way
Now, I've heard the cries of a panther,
Now, I've heard the coyotes yell,
But that long, lonesome cry shook the whole wide world
And it come from the cell of the jail.
Yes, I've heard the screech owls screeching,
And the hoot owls that hoot in the night,
But the graveyard itself is happy compared
To the voice in that jailhouse that night.
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