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sonny smith - year of the cock (jackie feathers) lyrics

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[verse 1]

all winter the magpies hid in the steeple
dining on yarrow and bol weevil
and there were no people except for me
i came to the sea to write and to think
but i was so small next to my dreams
like a mite who might try and cross the seas
in the year of the c+ck, i began as a flea

[verse 2]

springtime came, no words on the page
so the old sperm whale went looking for prey
and when i found a dodo as hungry as me
i dragged her back to my lair by the sea
pushing forward so awkwardly
i laid her bare on the eucalyptus leaves
in the year of the c+ck, it was hard as can be

[verse 3]

so i sat on her mantle like an old stuffed goose
the artist who says little and lets others choose
when at last i tried to finally break loose
she called me a skunk, a raccoon on the loot
she’d thought i was a rooster with the right kind of plumes
but i was only a chicken who had gone cuckoo
i was only a chicken, who had gone cuckoo
[verse 4]

and when i knew i was meant to be alone
i fell for a colt so young and so bold
really? i said, you could love an old goat?
sure, he said, but you’re more like a toad
like raging rams we b+tted our h+rns
i was a female stag kicking down the door
but then like a fish let back into the brook
in the year of the c+ck, i let him off the hook

[verse 5]

and then mother died, so i flew back to the states
and, sister was a shark so the lion’s share was weaseled away
and when i saw a guy i knew living on the street
a hard year went from bad to bleak
my skin broke out like when i was a kid
it was back to the clinic for tar baths and treatments
and the doctors gave the same old speeches
in the year of the c+ck i was covered in leeches

[verse 6]

and when at last i made it back to the steeple
the magpies stared at this strange man made feeble
by a year of l+st and lost questions
a broken mind receives no lessons
if in fact i had fallen and cracked
would i rise like a phoenix from the flames
or was i just an egg made of clay
in the year of the c+ck, i crowed all night and all day

- sonny smith lyrics

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