Give It Away - Andrew Bird

Did you give it away

Did you give it away for free

Don’t you give it away

Let’s try to keep it in the family

I know you know desolation

Coming home with your pockets full of sand

I know it’s no vacation

Now you’re plowing your tiny patch of land

In a nation under your command

Did you give it away

Yeah I gave it away

Did you give it away for free

What would you have us pay?

I didn’t know that your love was a commodity

What about appreciation

That depends on your depth and density

What about inflation

Your charts and graphs don’t mean a thing to me In your nation with its worthless currency

Would you hide in the hay

Would you hide in the hay with me Won’t you hide in the hay

Where it’s dark and we can scarcely breathe or see

Assured asphyxiation

Where the foxes and field mice make their dens

Death by association

I swore I’d never take anyone there again

To this nation

A nation under your command