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Blue Bird Gray Day
Re-evolution

“Re-evolution” is about crawling out of the sea a second time, trying to get it right. This piece was composed on the Pacific coast of Taiwan in 2003, but recently revised and recorded in Seattle.

“Blue Bird on a Gray Day” was written in Beijing after several months on the road in Vietnam and Western China. The words go like this:

It’s been a hard day to make it through
I never thought I’d feel so far away from you
A thousand city skylines striding thru my brain
And I’m tired

Sometimes I forget how much I love you
I don’t know why…it’s some kind of misguided continental drift of my mind….taking me over….making me lose myself, I lose myself….

I’ve been walking all day these city streets
Everything is changed, everything is gray

I saw a blue bird fall down from the sky
He walked up the street, stepped into a bar, ordered up a drink
He drank a double shot of whiskey, smoked a cigarette….
Played a lovesong on the jukebox, told a couple of dirty jokes…
All the barflies laughed

Then he stepped back out into the gray
Spat in the gutter, spread his wings, rose up into the air
And the wind blew him away

I wish I could follow, follow
I wish I could follow him
I’d fly back to you, you
I’d fly back to you