New Bird - Nada Surf

There’s a new bird at my window

It wasn’t there before

The other one’s not singing anymore

Scores of demons have been fading

Slowly through the night

They melt into the walls and out of sight

Oh my family split in two

When my dad after the war

Said he didn’t worship with his parents anymore

He kept flying back from school

Still trying to be a decent son

But when he knocked on their front door, they wouldn’t come

All the rules you hold to

They’re only there to numb you

So you don’t ask a question when you feel

If every non-believer is a non-receiver

There’s a reason right there

To raise your hand

Fifty years later and we met them

Though I wish them well

It’s strange they think I’m going straight to hell

There’s a new bird at my window

It wasn’t there before

The other one’s not singing anymore