From the recording The Bird with Flaming Red Feet
Jonathan Mudd’s soaring new single is inspired by his sister Maria Mudd Ruth’s latest book, ‘The Bird with Flaming Red Feet: Seasons with an Uncommonly Common Seabird.’ Churning guitars, swelling keyboards, pulsing drums and bass--it's a whole new category for pop music: alcid rock.
Lyrics
Up before the sunrise, I try not to wake you
Down to the edge of the Salish Sea
There on the rocks in the shelter of the towering fir trees
Hiding on the beach with the bluffs at my back
Trying to make a count of things I cannot see
How to check a box when you discover what it means just to be?
Spin me off in a new direction
Let’s fall in and out of sync with time
I know you want to make this a perfect connection
You think you understand but the story’s incomplete
Hiding in plain sight like the bird with flaming red feet
Black as the night or tossed about in soft gray
Dressed up for seasons you’re only passing through
Floating like a white swan, like a stranger I never really knew
The water is a stage and a brilliant disguise
Underneath the surface vermillion true
If I look at you forever I’d never see through the mystery of you
Spin me off in a new direction
Let’s fall in and out of sync with time
I know you want to make this a perfect connection
Maybe the truth is part of the deceit
If you want to know the answer you don’t have to go too deep
Hiding in plain sight like the bird with flaming red feet
Spin me off in a new direction
Let’s fall in and out of sync with time
I know you want to make this a perfect connection
You think you understand but the story’s incomplete
Aren’t we all a little bit like the bird with flaming red feet?