Title: Feeding the Birds and hoping for something in return

Releases: Echolalia

Running Time: 4:02

Also Known As: Something In Return, In Return, Shaking, Bad Italian Car Advertisement

Meaning: "This song has a few themes running through it, agoraphobia, panic, claustrophobic cityscapes and the birds that fly above it all in any direction they want" - Paul
Recorded: Recorded at Mangrove studio between November 2000 to January 2001. Produced by Trina Shoemaker.

Notes: “It’s one of my favorites on the record. I like the way it just builds to this peak and just gets bigger and bigger and crazier as it progresses” “I think it’s maybe the most intense song I’ve written” - Paul

Lyrics:

He sees streets

Waiting for him to decide

Forcing directions on the air

Insisting

And he wants to move it up

And he wants to move across anything

Just anything

In a city that rumbles like an impatient child

He hears everything

And I know the sound of panic

And I know emergency

And I know I've planned it like a battle

But when I'm done shaking I'll be simple

He hears trees

Talking about the wind or something

And he can't remember waking up

So he refuses to believe that he ever was asleep and he's exhausted

He sits under a tree

Feeding the birds and hoping for something in return

And I hate the silence in here

Its all emergency

And I know I've planned it like a battle

But When I'm done shaking

I'll be

I'll be simple

I'll be

Simple

Simple

Simple

Simple

Simple

Yeah

And he sees the buildings waiting

He sees them tired and leaning on each other

But all the words I had escaped

And all the things I saw I shaped

But I'm forgetting everything faster

Than I can remember what I'm missing

I'm missing everything

I'm missing everything

I'm missing everything

I'm missing everything

I know I've planned it like a battle

Yeah but I know I've planned it like a battle

Yeah but I know I've planned it like a battle

But when I'm done shaking I'll be