Birdland Lyrics - Singles - Chubby Checker

His father died and left him a little farm in New England 

All the long black funeral cars left the scene 

And the boy was just standin' there alone 

Lookin' at the shiny red tractor 

Him and his daddy used to sit inside 

And circle the blue fields and grease the night 

It was as if someone had spread butter 

On all the fine points of the stars 

'Cause when he looked up, they started to slip 

Then he put his head in the crux of his arms 

And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship 

Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it 

And saw his daddy 'hind the control boards 

Streamin' beads of light 

He saw his daddy 'hind the control board 

And he was very different tonight 

'Cause he was not human, he was not human 

The little boy's face lit up with such a naked joy 

That the sun burned around his lids 

And his eyes were like two suns 

White lids, white opals, seein' everything 

Just a little bit too clearly 

And he looked around and 

There was no black ship in sight 

No black funeral cars, nothin' 

Except for him, the raven 

And fell on his knees and 

Looked up and cried out 

"No, Daddy, don't leave me here alone 

Take me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship 

Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it 

Where you are not human, you are not human" 

But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm 

Nobody there 'cept for the birds 

Around the New England farm 

And they gathered in all directions 

Like roses they scattered 

And they were like compass grass 

Coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet 

Slit in his nose and all the others went shootin' 

And he saw the lights of traffic beckonin' him 

Like the hands of blake 

Grabbin' at his cheeks, takin' out his neck 

All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said 

I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up 

I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast 

Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship" 

And the ship slides open and I go inside of it 

Where I am not human 

I am helium raven and this movie is mine 

So he cried out as he stretched the sky 

Pushin' it all out like latex cartoon 

Am I all alone in this generation? 

We'll just be dreamin' of animation night and day 

And won't let up, won't let up and I see them comin' in 

Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now 

It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights 

Movin' in like black ships, they were movin' in, streams of them 

And he put up his hands and he said, It's me, it's me 

I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up 

I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, please take me up 

Don't leave me here" 

The son, the sign, the cross 

Like the shape of a tortured woman 

The true shape of a tortured woman 

The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her sons 

No longer presidents but prophets 

They're all dreamin', they're gonna bear the prophet 

He's gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation 

It's all gonna split his skull 

It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin' 

Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up 

Like light, like Mohammed boxer 

Take them up up up up up up 

Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me back 

Take me up, I'll go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up 

Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, tell 

Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up 

Up, up, to the belly of a ship 

Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it 

Well, we are not human, we're not human 

Well, there was sand, there were tiles 

The sun had melted the sand 

And it coagulated like a river of glass 

When it hardened, he looked at the surface 

He saw his face and where there were eyes 

Were just two white opals, two white opals 

Where there were eyes, there were just two white opals 

He looked up and the rays shot 

And he saw raven comin' in 

And he crawled on his back and he went up 

Up up up up up up 

Sha da do wop, da sha da do way 

Sha da do wop, da sha da do way 

Sha da do wop, da sha da do way 

Sha da do wop, da sha da do way 

Shaman do wop, da shaman do way 

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