Текст песни Flap Off You Beak - Cardiacs

All nineteen birds
Flying fast up
But they are dead
They are not alive

Bad bird
You flap off you beak
High and mighty
Beady bird eye

Featherless me and I be
All glad on my own
Doggy-eyed, graceless
In-a my home
Steps in wire
High and mighty
Beady bird eye
They're not alive

They eat no love
They curl up in their hollow tree
And leak the sap that bad birds do

Poison in the drops
Of black and white pearl
On the 'leaving the cinema' girl
Steps in wire
High and mighty
Beady bird eye
They're not alive

Don't linger on
Oh, not pure gold in your hand
And fly again to the ends of England
Sad birds flying
Through the famous London fog
There is no God
There is no 'alive'
In my menagerie

Sad birds they are not alive
Nineteen birds flying fast up
But they are not alive
They're not alive
They're not alive