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Yellow Bird
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This is the first song I finished for 2011's FAWM songwriting challenge. It's a very simple demo made with a voice recorder...I'm pretty sure this was the first time I'd ever played the whole thing straight through. :)
indie music folk unsigned singersongwriter wisconsin acoustic music girl singer robin lea fritche
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Acoustic guitar, melodic vocals, songs with poetic or clever lyrics...that's Robin in a nutshell. (Or maybe Robin would be screaming bloody murder at that poin
Hey, kids. Welcome to Robin Lea Fritche's new home on the web, la la la. Who is Robin Lea Fritche? She's a young woman of mostly German (and a little Irish) descent whose parents used to drag her around to various drinking establishments every Friday and Saturday night back in the 80s where their band would play. She started singing on stage as a small child and in middle school she picked up one of her mother's guitars and started playing hair band ballads for her friends. When she ran out of songs to play, she didn't know enough chords to figure out any new ones without help, so she started writing her own. And she's still writing, though now she finally knows enough chords to figure out a damn cover. ;) That's good enough for now, don't you think?
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
#5,045 today Peak #57
#1,181 in subgenre Peak #17
Author
Robin Lea Fritche
Rights
2011
Uploaded
February 12, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:27
Story behind the song
I was briefly courted by one who had a prior obligation about which he didn't immediately tell me...
Lyrics
Yellow bird I hear you don't like your cage You tried to pretend it away Told me you were free to play Yellow bird You sang with such joy in your throat I paused just to savor each note And I could recite them by rote The illusion of your openness And your eagerness to please Appealed so to a blue sky like me Yellow bird Your voice was so sweet I was ready to sway to your beat Yellow bird I hoped you could be My yellow bird My yellow bird Yellow bird You didn't mean me any harm Your cage doesn't have an alarm You thought you could land on my arm I was spellbound by your song Until you sang to me your truth I shouldn't trust a yellow bird like you Yellow bird Your voice was so sweet I was ready to sway to your beat Yellow bird I hoped you could be My yellow bird My yellow bird You chose your cage Long before you met me So you're not happy It's your choice to leave Yellow bird You never wanted to lie You just craved a taste of the sky Yellow bird Your voice was so sweet I was ready to sway to your beat Yellow bird I hoped you could be My yellow bird My yellow bird Yellow bird Your voice was so sweet I was ready to sway to your beat Yellow bird I hoped you could be My yellow bird My yellow bird My yellow bird My yellow bird
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