No Bad News - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Trouble, more trouble can you get anymore

Slow bubble boiling on the bedroom floor

Lonely ain’t lonely, someone calling at the door

Someone lovely and she’s bringing bad news

She clenches and she cries and she lays on the stairs

Pounding on the earth and yanking at her hairs

And showing such fear at being found unawares

To be here and be bringing bad news

Well, something bad happens and a lot of people go Bad themselves, that’s how awful it is Turning half the heart into something hard and dark

And she had to bring here this

Well, she’s told, «Hold your buttons and look at the sky

Someone will fix things if you let your face dry

Keep your face near the earth and your heart beat high

And you may transcend the bad news»

Well, something bad happens and a lot of people go Bad themselves, that’s how awful it is Turning half the heart into something hard and dark

And she had to bring here this

For all hammers and nails

For all leaves and winds

For all love ambitions

And enemies and friends

She shakes her face so fiercely that all her features go She lays like a monkey unclothed in the snow

And her voice it decays and before it does she goes,

«I will never again deliver bad news»

Something bad happens and a lot of people go Bad themselves, that’s how awful it is Turning half the heart into something hard and dark

And she had to bring here this

Mm, hey little bird — hey little bird

Thank you for not letting go of me when I let go of you

Hey little bird — hey little bird

Thank you for not letting go of me when I let go of you

(Hey little bird — hey little bird)

Thank you for not (letting go of me when I let go of you)