Varied Thrush

[00:28.63] Hush! hush!
[00:30.41] Listen to the Varied Thrush
[00:32.71] The freezing rain has pushed them
[00:34.84] Down into the valley with the rest of us
[00:38.27] Flushed
[00:39.23] From the comfortably lush forest floor
[00:43.72] They draw their bows across
[00:46.04] Serrated edges of musical saws and crush
[00:50.22] The frigid, sharply pointed hearts of icicles like us
[00:54.47] Crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush
[00:59.33] Crush, crush, crush
[01:01.44] Crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush
[01:05.83] Crush, crush, crush
[01:07.98] Swish! swish!
[01:09.45] The Osprey hovers seeking fish
[01:12.10] The glassy pond displays the menu
[01:14.75] But won't serve the dish
[01:16.60] To birds who wish
[01:18.18] To linger when the air turns cold
[01:20.99] Defying pressure
[01:22.28] To defer to Cackling Geese and Western Gulls
[01:25.70] Wish, wish, wish, wish, wish, wish, wish
[01:29.83] Wish, wish, wish
[01:31.97] Wish, wish, wish, wish, wish, wish, wish
[01:36.46] Wish, wish, wish
[01:38.26] Who doesn't wish they could begin to leave?
[01:42.62] Who doesn't wish they could
[01:44.24] Believe in letting something end?
[01:47.02] We have these wishes
[01:48.38] But we're hung up on a superstitious
[01:51.22] Focus on the family
[01:53.06] We see in Collared Doves
[01:54.69] With love much stronger than we probably
[01:57.44] Should ever hope for ours to be
[02:00.10] Are we a "we are" today?
[02:01.85] Will we be a "we will be" tomorrow?
[02:04.26] Were we a "we were" already long ago?
[02:08.02] We don't know what price makes sense to pay
[02:10.68] So we settle for indebted sorrow
[02:12.97] Never knowing we could dine and
[02:15.10] Dash into that nullifying snow
[02:17.91] Thrash! thrash!
[02:19.21] The so-called trash birds taking baths
[02:22.02] Betray their cuteness
[02:23.40] In the recklessness with which they lash
[02:26.26] Their lustrous feathers
[02:27.73] Petroleum with flecks of ash
[02:30.63] In an unseasonable puddle glaciating fast
[02:34.55] Splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash
[02:38.91] Freeze, splash, splash, splash
[02:41.31] Freeze, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash
[02:45.74] Freeze, splash, splash, splash
[02:48.30] Hush! hush!
[02:49.94] Listen to the Varied Thrush
[02:52.82] Hush! hush!
[02:57.17] Hush! hush!
[02:58.91] Listen to the Varied Thrush
[03:01.54] Hush! hush!
[03:05.93] Hush! hush!
[03:10.34] Hush! hush!
[03:14.52] Hush! hush!
[03:19.04] Hush! hush!
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