Blue Egg Blues          mp3
lyrics by Katherine
music by Katherine and Claire Chenette, assisted by Will McElroy


One spring I loved a robin's nest
I watched two birds build it with sticks and feathers
Each morning I watched their gutter home
From over a bowl of cheerios

Three perfect blue eggs in a perfect brown bed
I waited for you to hatch
Three fluffy balls softly crying and growing 
Did you see me through the glass?

I knew that someday you'd have to go
Leave me with National Public Radio
I already had enough holes
In my bowl, in my bowl, in my bowl

Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes 
I will have the strongest bones
Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes
God bless this bowl of Cheerios ©

I watched you get stronger and ready to fly
You got wings I got down 
I stayed low you got high
I stayed stuck in the kitchen chair
I'll never have feathers I only grow hair

Birds will grow 
Birds will go 
I sit here and eat Cheerios ©
Mothers flush dead fish down toilet bowls
Bread grows mold
Songs get sold
The sewer is swimming with goldfish bones
Bread grows mold 
Songs get sold
I sit here and eat Cheerios © 
Cheerios, © Cheerios, © Cheerios ©

Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes 
I will have the strongest bones
Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes
God bless this bowl of Cheerios ©

Which little robin's the one that I love
When you're one of the many pecking in the mud
You won't recognize me or love me back
When you're searching for worms in the sidewalk cracks

This is a cover of a song I wrote with my other band, the Bearcubes, in Oberlin, Ohio.  I wrote the lyrics to this song when I was working as an au pair in France in 2007.  It is based on an experience I had as a child, watching a nest of robins outside my window where I would eat breakfast every morning.



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