Bird with a Broken Wing
"Bird with a Broken Wing" | |||||
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Album track by Weezer | |||||
Album | OK Human | ||||
Released | January 29, 2021 | ||||
Recorded | 2020 | ||||
Length | 3:51 | ||||
Label | Crush Music/Atlantic Records | ||||
Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
Producer(s) | Jake Sinclair | ||||
Status | Released | ||||
Live debut | March 21, 2021 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall | ||||
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OK Human track listing | |||||
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"Bird with a Broken Wing" is the eighth track from OK Human.
Appearances
- OK Human (2021)
Overview
"Bird with a Broken Wing" was mentioned by Rivers Cuomo to members of Riverchat in September of 2020.
When asked about the song's origins in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music[1][2], Cuomo said of the song, "I think I was just feeling pretty irrelevant and passed over, and past my prime, I guess. I was feeling pretty sorry about myself." In an interview with Rick Rubin for the Broken Record Podcast[3], Cuomo mentioned that it was likely one of the first songs written for the album.
The bridge of the song was reappropriated from a song sketch written by Cuomo in 1998 or 1999 titled "Nothing Matters in the World and Everyone Is Free," released in November of 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room. Another demo sketch featuring the bridge, titled "You Are the One" (an early iteration of what would become the song "Four Leaf Clover") from 2015 was also released as part of the compilation Alone XII: The White Year.
Audio
Lyrics
Long ago, I was flying in the air
Looking at the sea below
I was hunting krill
Diving down in a flash I'd scoop them up
Thrashing in my mandible
It was such a thrill
Me and my friends, we were killers
Now I'm just a bird with a broken wing
But I still have a song to sing
Turning night to day
Warbling clouds away
I'm just a bird with a broken wing
And this beautiful song to sing
Don't feel sad for me
I'm right where I want to be
This stupid cat, always sneaking up on me
Thinking I would be his meal
'Til I slipped up and away
Singing out, the melody came endlessly
High or low, I felt so free
I had something to say
But he'll never catch my melody
Though I'm just a bird with a broken wing
And I still have a song to sing
Turning night to day
Warbling clouds away
I'm just a bird with a broken wing
And a beautiful song to sing
Don't feel sad for me
I'm right where I want to be
Nothing matters in the world
And everyone is free
But I'll belong to you
If you believe in me
Nothing matters in the world
And everyone is free
But I'll belong to you
If you believe in me
I'm just a bird with a broken wing
And I still have a song to sing
Turning night to day
Warbling clouds away
I'm just a bird with a broken wing
And a beautiful song to sing
Don't feel sad for me
I'm right where I want to be
Known recordings
Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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Rivers Cuomo | 72 nothing matters in the world and.mp3 | 1998 or 1999 | 0:52 | Alone VI: The Black Room | |||
Rivers Cuomo | You Are the One | you_are_the_one_2015_1_15_10_52_27.mp3 | January 15, 2015 | 6:03 | Alone XII: The White Year | ||
Rivers Cuomo | Bird with a Broken Wing | bird_alt_chorus_Melody_2018_4_4_15_35_12.mp3 | April 4, 2018 | 0:23 | |||
Rivers Cuomo | Bird with a Broken Wing | Bird With A Broken Wing 10 No More @105 +2.mp3 | |||||
Weezer | Bird with a Broken Wing | 2019—2020 |
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3:51 | OK Human |
See also
References
- ↑ Lowe, Zane "Weezer: The OK Human Interview." YouTube, 28 January 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsTtPSv-yw
- ↑ Lowe, Zane "Weezer: The OK Human Interview." Apple Music, 27 January 2021. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/weezer-the-ok-human-interview/pl.2b67d12686224245ac1bbbbfa7fb4aa8
- ↑ Rubin, Rick "Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's New Album and a Nirvana Conspiracy" Broken Record Podcast 2 February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TW0FHEC94