All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast - Bill Callahan

The leafless tree looked like a brain

The birds within were all the thoughts and desires within me Hoppin' around from branch to branch

Or snug in their nests listenin' in An eagle came over the horizon

And shook the branches with its sight

The softer thoughts: starlings, finches, and wrens

The softer thoughts, they all took flight

The eagle looked clear through the brain tree

Empty he thought, save for me Maybe I’ll make this one my home

Consolidate the nests of the tiny

Raise a family of might like me Then something struck him, wings of bone

Sweet desires and soft thoughts were all gone

The eagle shrieked, «I'm alone»

Well it was time to flee the tree

The eagle snuck up on the wind

One talon at a time

Being sky king of the sky

What did he have to fear

All thoughts are prey to some beast

All thoughts are prey to some beast

All thoughts are prey to some beast

All thoughts are prey to some beast

All thoughts are prey to some beast

All thoughts are prey to some beast

Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts

, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me