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pigeons are brilliant

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why i love pigeons

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Pigeons are brilliant by puppeteer C) 2006

Pigeons' voices start the song

They live under each roof above the cats and the dogs
Pests who prefer not to be pets
Necks a chalky blue and plum, can you imagine that
Despite such plumage they're called “flying rats?”

They coo like human babies and they poop like human babies
Sometimes aiming for our heads like guileful bats
They’re as gray as the city, as gray as the city’s cold
And they’ve lived here for as long as the city’s old

Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant

Pigeons taught B.F. Skinner all there’s to know of our behavior
Yet we shoot them in cruel bloodthirsty games
We call targets clay pigeons and spies stool pigeons
We call young women pigeons when we don’t know their names
City outcasts yet street cleaners, and even when you do not need them
In your lonely days they still wait for you to feed them
They’re as gray as the city, as gray as the city’s cold
And they’ve lived here for as long as the city’s old

Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant

Pay good money for the corn to place upon your outstretched arm
When they come, laugh like at baby pigs on a farm
These watchers who kept vigil upon my childhood home
In Venice, Paris, London, and Rome
Was the sky not lit with birds with news of war strapped to their knee
That showed that neither bird nor man was free
They’re as gray as the city, as gray as the city’s cold
And they’ve lived here for as long as the city’s old

Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant

Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant
Pigeons are so gray they’re brilliant

Pigeons' voices finish off
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released April 20, 2020
All music, lyrics, playing and singing are by puppeteer

song copyright with US Copyright Office, music performing and broadcasting rights managed by BMI, published digitally globally by CD Baby.

image is of puppeteer as a child among his beloved pigeons in venice

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puppeteer Chicago, Illinois

who is puppeteer? i grew up of American parents in Paris and London. i became a psychologist by career, remaining a music obsessive, writing songs when i could on bits of paper. raising a family prevented creative outlet of that nature. now, as a divorced skeleton, i spend time when i can writing and recording for this collection of songs, entitled Songs of Love and Earth. ... more

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