Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics

Such a beautiful song!!!!!! WHat an amazing....music!!!! I love TWILIGHT!!!!!

the lyrics is so simple but really hard to understand :D but i love the music, really beautiful goodjob!

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oh! i've learned a lot from MsRaeLee, at first, i can't understand the lyrics...but now i can...thanks for the explanation MsRaeLee...everytime i listen to this song, i feel like i want to cry and sleep...it makes me feel calm and relax eventhough i feel some heartache inside me...this song is really connected to the movie...))

I love it ! Love it ! Love it ! ^^

I think the movie twilight can really relate to this song in a way I think that when it says have I found you flightless bird its saying have I finally found what I've been waiting for all this time relating to Edward of course and that verse for Bella is saying that love hit her when she least expected it.

I think this song is about the loss of innocence, youth, and individualism and the dread and unhappiness of being conformed to a role. The first verse is all about the boldness, wildness, and freedom of youth but also about its brevity. Even as he is the "quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins" there are those waiting for him to grow up ("All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys"). Eventually he is forced to abandon youth ("when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair, Stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere"). The dog eared map is the road map to confiormity. He is expected to be like everyone else . He approaches with a sense of dread ("Bill pill looming") for this is a hard pill to swallow. In the second verse he is now the "Fat house cat," stuck inside, conforming to expectations and resentful and unhappy. He wonders if he will ever be something different ("Have I found you, flightless bird, grounded or lost you...") This also appears to be an indictment of American greed/conformity/lack of individuality (American mouth, big pill looming," "American mouth, big pill stuck going down"). Anyway, that's waht I see. Great song.

I also agree with some things that MsRaeLee spoke about and I also agree with pbosnich about the dog-eared map. I would like to throw one more idea out there. Have you ever heard the expression "Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow"? In the phrases "big pill looming" and "stuck going down" I believe the big pill refers to the cold, hard truth. When the big pill is looming it means that whatever the truth turns out to be, good or bad, it will just have to be accepted. And when he says it is stuck going down it means that it was a hard truth, or a hard fate, to accept.

i really love this song!!! when i listened to it for the first time i didnt got the insight behind the amazing lyrics,but when i read the explanation of MsRaeLee i understood the lyrics.the song is very very beautiful.some people say this song doesnt have sense but they are completely wrong!!!it makes you understand that following your dreams is very important.every ones heart is filled with dreams and we need to make them true,a reality in your own way.when listen to this song i remember to myself that i got to be strong and follow my dreams.@-}--- thank you MsRaeLee!!!

Thank you, MsRaeLee for the meaningful insight behind the lyrics. This song says so much about life!