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Bob McPeek - (We Can't Fly With) Only One Wing

from Mixing Metaphors by Bob McPeek (with Band Together, Polyphony, and Tribal Disorder)

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The same arguments made and accusations leveled by one side of the political divide are almost exactly mirrored in the finger pointing from the opposition. Meanwhile, we are spinning our wheels in the face of existential threats. So here's my plea for cooperation (unity is a stretch, but how about just respecting each other?). There's a live version of this one as a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8x7FARRlAw

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(We Can't Fly With) Only One Wing

The birds of prey are hunting today
The vultures are circling high
As the crows in the fray shriek their dismay
At the dark cloud of hawks in the sky

The wing on the right is flapping in vain
Only one half of a pair
As the left wing beats to a different refrain
This flight is goin’ nowhere

Some birds get their beaks wet and feather their nests
Retweeting the song of the king
Set your sights high, to the top of the sky
We can’t fly with only one wing

Birds of a feather all flock together
Believing a different truth
Inside our bubbles, unruffled, untroubled
Mistaking consensus for proof

Peacocks parade, parrots repeat
The claim of lame ducks to the throne
The talons deploy, the ostrich retreats
And the scavengers pick through the bones

The chickens came home to roost, sitting ducks, cooked goose
What a lark, when they let the loons loose
We set our sights high, to the top of the sky
We can’t fly with only one wing

We can’t take off till we shake off the hate
That’s draggin’ us down to the ground with its weight

So take a deep breath and leap from your nest,
Fledglings cutting our strings
Sharing the skies, we could soar, we could rise
We can’t fly with only one wing

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from Mixing Metaphors, track released March 1, 2022
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Bob McPeek Gainesville, Florida

The founder of Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida, Bob McPeek has produced, engineered, and/or played on at least 10,000 songs for artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, River Phoenix, and Less Than Jake.

Mixing Metaphors is his first solo album of original material, showcasing the considerable songwriting, performing, and producing skills applied for his own material at long last. ... more

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