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Andrew Bird — Lusitania
Album: Break It Yourself
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Released: 2012
Length: 3:58
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If your loose and libel lips
Keep sinking all my ships
Then you're the one who sank my Lusitania
But some how it don't register as pain at all
Till it finds your crooked vein
It should help us not remember the Maine
You're laying mines along your shore
Through my hull it ripped and tore
We don't study this war no more

So we let our back bones slip
Till the arc spits from our fingertips
And we'll become a hazard in the rain
Oh and we'll get charged out in the rain
There's a sixty-cycle hum
Go ahead say something dumb
Boy there's no shame
There's no shame

Go ahead say something dumb boy
There's no shame
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Andrew sure likes to whistle.....{#Whistle} while he works.
Posted 11 years ago by cathiedee1    [ Reply ]
"Her" voice is nice.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Whistling at the start of a song is usually a warning of what's to come, and that's the case with this effort. I thought it would be Rolf Harris at first, and in truth I think I'd have preferred the bearded Antipodean to this Ho-Hum number. I think also that yer man Bird's being mildly tasteless in singing "You're my Lusitania" given what a tragedy the sinking was, though maybe he makes up for it in the rest of the lyrics - I'd muted before I could hear them. So, thanks to RP for the PSD button...

  
97 years is way too soon. Show some sensitivity Mr. Bird.
Posted 11 years ago by dig    [ Reply ]
{#Whistle}
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
Very likeable...Annie Clark is amazing...7  (:
Posted 11 years ago by jack05oak    [ Reply ]
Missed this one...very nice..
Posted 11 years ago by Jazbo    [ Reply ]
Like this a lot
Posted 11 years ago by Johnny_Wave    [ Reply ]
Who is the female vocalist? Her voice well matches the beauty of Andrew's music
Posted 11 years ago by blackdogsailing    [ Reply ]
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bird...
Posted 11 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
Try whistling this...
Posted 11 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHISTLING? FREAKING GENIUS....


Posted 11 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Whistling at the start of a song is usually a warning of what's to come
 
Winchester Cathedral?
Posted 11 years ago by haresfur    [ Reply ]
If you're going to San Franciso
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
Summertime will be a love-in there
Posted 11 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
mellow, i like it bill
Posted 11 years ago by nightmann    [ Reply ]
horrid. all his stuff is just horrid.
Posted 11 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
ZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZ
Posted 11 years ago by bertbakker    [ Reply ]
 joelbb wrote:
This guy read the name "Lusitania" in a book, thought it was cool, but has no idea what its significance was.  He must be having us on.
 
BTW, Lusitania = Portugal.
Posted 11 years ago by mauguima    [ Reply ]
 joelbb wrote:
This guy read the name "Lusitania" in a book, thought it was cool, but has no idea what its significance was.  He must be having us on.
 

His music is full of high-brow references like that.  REM did that a lot in the 80s.   The question is Why they do this?  It certainly helps appeal to college students who might be taking courses in Western Civ or something similar.  I've always thought it was light-weight, apolitical fare.  I don't mind it at all.   I don't think anyone ever accused REM of starting a revolution.  Lyrics should be relevant, but they should not be taken seriously.  The human voice needs something to bellow out.  May as well be stuff like this rather than some stupid love ballad. 
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
This guy read the name "Lusitania" in a book, thought it was cool, but has no idea what its significance was.  He must be having us on.
Posted 12 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
 Webfoot wrote:
Not bad. Two point deduction for whistling.
 
Pretty bad for me and all points deducted for whistling....
Posted 12 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
I have yet to hear anything by this guy that is any good.  The only good thing in this one is the female voice.  Otherwise, Bird is really bland.
Posted 12 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:
who is that female voice?
 
I thought it might be Lana Del Rey — however wikipedia credits Annie Clark aka St Vincent.
Posted 12 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Whistling at the start of a song is usually a warning of what's to come, and that's the case with this effort. I thought it would be Rolf Harris at first, and in truth I think I'd have preferred the bearded Antipodean to this Ho-Hum number. I think also that yer man Bird's being mildly tasteless in singing "You're my Lusitania" given what a tragedy the sinking was, though maybe he makes up for it in the rest of the lyrics - I'd muted before I could hear them. So, thanks to RP for the PSD button...
 
Perhaps he wanted to go down on her. . . 
Posted 12 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
who is that female voice?
Posted 12 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
nice tune....
Posted 12 years ago by yuel    [ Reply ]
Whistling at the start of a song is usually a warning of what's to come, and that's the case with this effort. I thought it would be Rolf Harris at first, and in truth I think I'd have preferred the bearded Antipodean to this Ho-Hum number. I think also that yer man Bird's being mildly tasteless in singing "You're my Lusitania" given what a tragedy the sinking was, though maybe he makes up for it in the rest of the lyrics - I'd muted before I could hear them. So, thanks to RP for the PSD button...
Posted 12 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Not bad. Two point deduction for whistling.
Posted 12 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
To quote Alice of "Dilbert" fame: "Stop whistling, you freakin' moron . . . "
Posted 12 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]