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lyrics

Put a bird in a burning tree.
It would fly away, unless that bird was me
For I don't know how to fly.
And I'm afraid of heights.
And to open up my wings terrifies me more anything.

So forest fire single blaze,
I'd bound to keep my place,
and from the treetop watch it all burn down,
baking blacker, passing out.

What's the use a bird who cannot fly?
Where's the good in a girl who just cries?
Where's the mirth in a merle who will not sing.
A broken pot doesn't hold anything.

What's the use of a bird who cannot fly?
who'll never feel the winds of the sky.
Where's the mirth in a merle who will not sing,
nor spread the joy of the dawn and what she brings.
Where's the good in a girl who just cries?
And all she sees are the things that she despises.
A broken pot doesn't hold anything...

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from Fledgling EP (2009), released March 1, 2009

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Woodpecker Wooliams Brighton, UK

Musical project of Gemma Williams.

WW toured extensively around Europe, Russia and the Baltics and performed at Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival before this guise was put to rest in 2013.

'A stunning find.’ SUNDAY TIMES

"Musically and emotionally, it’s belting." BBC.CO.UK

THE GUARDIAN 'New Band of The Day' 06/09/12

‘Enchanting solo masterpieces’ - THE INDEPENDENT

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