Little Bird
by Eels

Album: End Times (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • End Times tells the story of a middle-aged divorced man, who equates his personal loss with the loss of integrity in the world he's living in. In this sparse and sad ballad, Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett compares love lost to a tiny bird flitting around a porch.
  • This is not the first time that Everett has penned a song about our feathered friends. His 2000 track, I Like Birds is a tribute to his late mother who was an avid birdwatcher.

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