THIRTEEN WAYS TO BLACKBIRD song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

based on "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
BY WALLACE STEVENS

there are thirteen ways to blackbird
thirteen ways they say
thirteen ways to blackbird
every single day

on 20 snowy mountains
the only moving thing
was the eye of blackbird
underneath the wing

I was of three minds,
I was like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds
I myself and me

The blackbird whirled around
in the autumn winds
a small part of the pantomime
and so again begins

13 ways to blackbird
13 ways at least
13 ways to blackbird
to awake the beast

A man and a woman
Are even as one.
A man a woman blackbird
what is done is done

don't know what I want
the beauty of inflections
or the blackbird whistling
full of his suspections

icicles in windows
with barbaric glass
the shadow of the blackbird
questionable pass

13 ways to blackbird
13 ways I guess
13 ways to blackbird
good and better best

O thin men of Haddam,
Why the golden birds?
Do you see the blackbird
walking round the girls?

I know noble accents
beats you can't escape
the blackbird is a part of
everything I shape

When the blackbird flew from sight,
It marked the outer edge
Of one of many circles
of the bet I hedge

13 ways to blackbird
13 ways to live
13 ways to blackbird
never to forgive

At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in green light,
Even bards of harmony
cry out sharp at night

riding over C T
in a coach of glass
fear was overwhelming
when the shadow passed

The river moves along
somewhere a child is crying
a mother sings her song
The blackbird must be flying.

13 ways to blackbird
13 ways to laugh
13 ways to blackbird
forever ever aft

It was dusk all afternoon.
It was snowing free
And it was going to snow.
The blackbirds sat in trees

13 ways to blackbird
13 ways to die
13 ways to blackbird
bye blackbird bye bye