Siouxsie and the Banshees — Painted Bird

[Verse 1] On lead-poisoned wings You try to sing Freak beak shrieks are thrown At your confusing hue The peacock screaming eyes Show no mercy Oh, no mercy [Chorus] Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve Painted bird [Verse 2] The flock will make you choke On this sadistic joke And the whippoorwills They make a din In laughing unison You're hitchcock carrion In laughing unison You're hitchcock carrion, carry on [Chorus] Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve Painted bird It's absurd Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve Painted bird [Bridge] I hear your sorrow Maybe tomorrow You'll lose your sorrow When a fated weather will cleanse away That painted feather And all that sorrow, sorrow, sorrow Ooh [Verse 3] A coquette in fur Purr for the painted bird Confound that dowdy flock With a sharp-honed nerve Because we're painted birds By our own design By our own design And there's no more sorrow, sorrow, sorrow [Chorus] Have you heard About the painted bird Just a tainted bird Hurting their twisted nerve We've lost our sorrow Now it's tomorrow-morrow No need to hide your feather Until a fated weather No more sorrow, sorrow We've lost our sorrow Now we're painted birds Mocking that twisted nerve Painted birds It's absurd