She is like a sparrow on a fence, she is Neglected but for crumbs She gathers up the scraps into piles She pulls them into concentrated lines She is likewise quite diminutive Without flight to compensate She stays near the ground on which she walks She crawls sometimes ♪ He's derivative, without influence She gathers into confluence It's so familiar, it's like Everything you've never heard before ♪ He is the tread on the tire She's tired of the flattening out She is the wind against the window And when she blows he says, "Oh my my" ♪ Like the bird beak-first into the glass Like the bird beak-first into the glass Like the bird beak-first into the glass Like the bird in spasms on the grass Like the bird beak-first into the glass Stunned and startled, spasms on the grass ♪ Apparently transparency will leave you lame And lying on the lawn Apparently transparency will leave you lame and lying on the lawn Apparently transparency will leave you lame and lying on the lawn Apparently transparency will leave you lame and lying on the lawn Apparently transparency will leave you lame and lying on the lawn ♪ He is cursing on the curb on the corner in the cold "This is getting old," she says She is the binding on the book that never bends "This has gotta end, " he says, "I'm as good as dead"