Never Cage A Soul

from Music For Frustrated Ornithologists by The Gallant Trees

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Never Cage A Soul

I read about the Paradise Parrot
Who left us in the 1920's
It disappeared under our guidance
Possessed for its beauty

But you can never cage a soul, never cage a soul
Despite all that is told, never cage a soul

I once read about an extinction
For an ode is a story to tell
It was taken for its beauty
That's where possession has its irony

But you can never cage a soul, never cage a soul
Despite all that is told, never cage a soul

It was a multi-coloured Parrot
Who lived in a Termite mound
A multi-coloured Parrot
Who lived in a Termite mound
The habitat, grassy woodland
But possession is all that we know
It's all that we know!

You can see the ghost in other birds
The grace with its colour too
It's beauty became the reason for extinction
And repression has its irony too

But you can never cage a soul, never cage a soul
Despite all that is told, never cage a soul

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from Music For Frustrated Ornithologists, released March 16, 2012
Words and Music by Joel Stibbard.

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