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GIVE EM THE BIRD

by Tavo Carbone

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Give Em the Bird Give Em the Bird Forget what you've heard Give Em the Bird Predicting the lightening The cosmic soup has been stirred Don't swallow your words Give Em the Bird Why live a life keeping it light When all you say is what's preferred Put down your weaponized words You've gotta Give Em the Bird Deep ocean blue horizons for me and you It gets brighter everyday Yet somehow darker too When it's occurred After all we've endured Revolutions don't need to be assured Put down your weaponized words And Give Em the Bird Give Em the Bird Give Em the Bird Give Em the Bird
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Stick your petunia in a rifle Shooting blanks for the people Disproportionate equals With no place to run Professed young wisdom means something If you suck up to Buddha Had you would've you should've But now you can't stay calm Keep your calm Living among classless fathers and moms Endear engendered pigment qualms Clasp the palms into a chapel For religions sake we will Here comes the steeple and out run people Not for some or just one but Everybody's person kind of people All of the people Sounds like people Not for some or the one but Everybody's persons kind of people All of the people
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How many times does it take To know what's going on How many times does it take To write a different fucking kind of song How many times does it take Tell me how many times does it take How many times does it take To tell the bad apart from the good How many times will it take To understand what cannot be understood How many times does it take tell me You fucking asshole How many times does it take To get to know all the things you should've known How many times does it take To make the best of your time How many times does it take To know you haven't faked How many times can mistakes mark your fate Elucidate Your appetite can't digest all you ate How many times does it take Oh driving around with the people Trying not to talk on my phone In the dark of the nighttime Oh who's that person smiling at themselves in the dark of the night In their car too Don't mind them or the way that they drive they're on their phone Don't want to disturb them they're on their phone Oh who's this next person I suppose could wear some kind of Shiny reflective garment on at night while jogging They're on their phone Oh I guess I hit a woman and child Well they had it coming They were on their phones How many times does it take To say you've made a mistake How many times does it take How many times can it possibly take?
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As I drove to your space With sweaty hands and gasps for air It was not in my mind When I drove to your place That a spirit had brought me there I know it As I look at my face I see no time to waste It is not in good taste That I think of you as often as I do I know I don't know I don't know which
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How do I move on from you Like I keep trying to do I can't write about the news or find my shoes When my heart is stuck like glue on you I won't write anymore songs on your door Or lay down to see you dance on the floor None of it's real what you say that you feel About me or what I feel for you What will you have me do How many hoops can I jump through Light em on fire and call me a lion I'll sell tickets to your circus for you If there were a kiss or a glance I could steal I'd rather be someone who feels as much as I do Than someone who just wants to feel I'd want to be free as you claim to be But I'm not in it only for myself and me Equality in this country is colorless slavery I've seen the death of written words The rape of raw magic The end of privacy and true love But that's okay I tell myself everyday I'm not allergic to those cliches
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I am not tired Rest is not what I need After all the passing time I can only keep going forward Not backwards With the clock ticking Like an axe in my head For a reputation Is all a man has
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How many times will it take To expect what you anticipate If you're hungry the Queen will bake That evil poison coma Snow White cake How many times have you been roused awake From a dream for indigestions sake How many times will it take To make the most of the time there is to make How many times will it take To tell the bad apart from the good How many times does it take To understand what cannot be understood How many times will it take tell me The hypothesis you'd make About as many many times as it takes Until your whole entire skeleton breaks Hourglass grains of sand suspend what you understand Your supply and demand leaves bloodstains on my hand How many leaves can you rake up before There's not one leaf left up in the tree It's been what it will be Is what I've come to believe to see Love in this world is free I don't care what you say about me With no expectations from me I've only done what I can to have been what I could be How many times will it take?

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released March 28, 2022

Tavo Carbone Voice, Guitars, Mellotron, Keyboard,
Accordion, Piano, Organ
Tony DeLesDernier Drums on 1 / 4
Jess DiPesa Bass on 1/ 4
Alex Powell Violin on 6
Elizabeth Wright Piano on 6



1 / 4 Recorded & Mixed for Voice, Acoustic Guitar, Upright/Electric Bass, Drums at The Sneaky Shack in Tulsa OK by Pete DeLesDernier

2 / 5/ 7 / 9 Recorded at Oversea in Red Hook, Brooklyn NY by Jake Adams, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Rhiannon Reilly

3 Mastered by Geoff Man in Red Hook, Brooklyn NY

6 / 8 Co-Mixed with Sam Clement
8 Engineered / Co-Mixed with Sam Clement, JJ Beck

All songs © Tavo Carbone 2020, 2021, 2022

liner notes # 1 photography © Kia Carbone 2019
liner notes # 2 mysterious eagle diptych - unknown circa 1971
album cover photo © Tavo Carbone in SC 2021

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Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
Will tour again before the next Presidential transfer of power.

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