[Verse 1]
On the statue’s crown
Grey coat
Crooked feet
Head jerks like a broken clock
Beak taps to a beat only it can keep
Glass bead stare
Fixed on the traffic
The trash
The sky
Little skull like a padlocked room
And I still try the handle every time
[Chorus]
What’s behind the pigeon’s eyes?
Stone or storm or static?
Is there a ghost in all that grey?
Or just a stubborn habit?
Little watcher on the power line
Guarding secrets
Cheap and divine
What’s going on inside that brain?
Or am I the empty one
Asking?
[Verse 2]
You strut through crumbs
Like a priest through incense smoke
Wings flick at invisible threats
Every flinch a half-remembered joke
Do you dream in crumbs?
In sudden cars and teeth and rain?
Or is each second just a match
Struck
Then swallowed by the same
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Maybe it’s simple
Hunger
Heat
A place to land
Maybe you’re blessed
By never asking who you are
Or why
Or when
Still I stare you down
You tilt your head
Then mine
Two small animals on a concrete cross
Both pretending we can read each other’s minds
[Chorus]