Joe McKee - Flightless Bird
Taken from the album 'Burning Boy' out July 1 through The Big Ship label.
Produced by Freshie Island. Filmed, directed and edited by Amber Fresh and Matthew Christopher Saville.
www.joemckee.co
http://www.thebigship.co/
Flightless bird
Fallen from Orion's belt
Build your tower to the stars
Sky sick bird
Prisoner of the Terra Nullius
Tower home to where you were born
When your sisters left you here
You became our mother
Cruelest of all punishments
How could they abandon you?
Termite woman
Tears your tower down into the ground
Build your tower up again
Higher this time
Up in to the clouds
Grow young flower
When your sisters left you here
You became out mother
Every crumbling tower is a waterfall
Every tumbling flower is an ocean
Broken bird
Dust your feathers off again
And build your throne
Upon this land