Membranes - A Murmuration of Starlings on Blackpool Pier Lyrics

Flying upstream against the feathery tide
A starling murmuration is painting pictures in the sky
A shoal of feathery fish shimmers and flickers
Dancing around the fleshy tower and the discarded knickers
Illicit snogs neath skeleton Victoriana
As a backdrop of birds is arriving above ya
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier

A thrilling exaltation, a swooping mass of fowl
As the birds blacken the sky like a feathery funeral shroud
A couple's impervious lust serenades their seaside hosts
A shrill cacophonous cloud, a wild spectacle.
Quick-step breath reaches for a natural high
The thundering birds celebrate the iron sky
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier

I was a salt baby born B-side by the C-side,
Illuminate the gloom with fish'n'finger pies,
I remember the day they invented sunshine.
Lost in the ozone of the tangerine skies,
The air is brooding and the sunsets are here
The Victorians built the future when the future had no fear
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier
There's a murmuration of starlings on Blackpool pier