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Released 10/10/2025.
Duration: 2:31.

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Lyrics:

Woah, wo-o-oah,
Wo-o-o-o-o-o-oah

Beat your wings, peck the bars
Tear out your feathers and scratch the stars
Of the world beyond, you see a shadow
Here there is all that a bird could want, though

What's this longing that lasts through every age?
What is calling you out beyond your cage?
What strange sorrow, so curious and glad
How you can miss something you've never had?
O-o-oh

String the nets, sweep the floor
Water the flowers and close the door
When the summer's flown, they try to follow
Sleep is a poison that holds them down, though

What's this longing that lasts through every age?
What is calling you out beyond your cage?
What strange sorrow, so curious and glad
How I can miss something I've never had?
Oo-oo-ooh,
O-oh, o-oh

Artist commentary for Bird Song:

Circlejourney ✑ booklet commentary

I don’t know how much I’ve said about my plans to write an Eagles and Swans musical, but I’ve only ever released one other song under this concept: Memorialisation.

Bird Song is the second. It was conceptualised as a character song for Hollia, a birdkeeper who inherited her job from her parents. (Hollia is also the character featured in the track art for Idyllic.)

The introductory piano refrain and the line “How can you miss something you’ve never had?“ have existed in my MIDI drafts since 2016 or so, but I never had any push to complete the song...

...until I had a dream about writing a four part vocal harmony that just happened to have the exact chords I had envisioned for Bird Song. I recorded it the minute I woke up and, just like that, the song fell together. First the piano draft, then the orchestral rendition.