Bird School

Yo, you could pull a rabbit out a hat, that’s tricky

I know where there’s 12,000 birds in a chimney

Your kinda witchcraft take a lot of practice

My kinda witchcraft show up in the atmos

Yo, sent you a pin

And a date in September, lemme pencil you in

You could spend the whole summer hiding birds in your coat

But come one fall eve, 6:30 on the nose

On a grassy knoll, by a school of brick

I’ll be sipping something diet with a lime on the rim

I’ll be slicing up a kiwi bout the size my fist

About to put you on the science of the migrating Swift

You like “I didn’t come for science,I had come for a trick”

You had come for some magic, dummy, shut-up and sit

There’s a couple thousand other people doing the same

To see a miracle, smoke and mirrors ruins the frame

I’m saying yo, you could Link solid metal rings, that’s tricky

10 birds circling a middle school dizzy

Choosing a location to pause along the route

To Venezuela well away from the frost

Yes yes yall, I’m fried y’all

Vaux’s Swifts, loyal to the neighbors, for example

This chimney been a favorite since the 80s

By 7 it was several hundred birds

The show is a slow burn, though it only take a moment to turn

Here a thou, there another

Synchronized swimmers doing aerials above us

A prayer for the lovers, catch this

Your kinda witchcraft take a lotta practice

My kinda witchcraft ain’t about distraction

Yo, focus on the throwdown

Sorcery so absurd even Merlin had his phone out

7:15 like a Sistine Chapel

Wearing particle effects projected to seem natural

Sunset jaw-dropping avian performance

The patterns are mathematics, the algorithm enormous

And growing, headline, not to be foul

Reads: earth mother posterizes wands into flowers

And yo, you could turn a wand into flowers, that’s tricky

Over 10k cyclone above the city

Your kinda witchcraft take a lotta angles

My kinda witchcraft witness to the angels

You could levitate a volunteer, that’s tricky

12 stacks hit the tornado in a tizzy

An act the likes of which we’ve

Never seen even when there’s nothing up the sleeve

Yes yes y’all, I’m starving

Yo, the funneling of swifts into brick

Cylinders is seriously some mystical shit

I mean, dare I say astonishing

Fuckit I’m a say it, it’s astonishing

That’s truth stranger, that’s a true banger

Plus, they put the show on everyday for month

Now I appreciate my card has found its way to the top of the whole deck

But homie you just can’t make this shit up

As for the homie I showed, I remember smoke from the ears

I heard he had to move home, hasn’t spoke in a year

Well shit, that’s not supposed to happen

Then again that’s classic action re-action

Yo, you can pull a rabbit out a hat that’s tricky

12,000 birds disappear into a chimney

Your kinda witchcraft take a lotta practice

My kinda witchcraft show up in the atmos yo