I would have to say this is my least favorite song on Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast. This is mostly because it is considered "the single" of the album. It is most "commercially viable" or something like that.
However, this music video made with a marching band and non-album cut has made me think more of it.
Andrew Bird with Mucca Pazza - "Fitz & The Dizzyspells”
He even performed it live on Letterman:
In any event, here are the lyrics:
Comes and goes,
Like in fitz and dizzy spells
Like the weather
And it blows
Like it knows what's going wrong
Like it's clever
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
Weather wanes were all twisted and broken
So soldier on, soldier on
Soldier on, soldier on
Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
And muted screams of an old regime
And then oh something gets in
The nightshade gets in
We were all fast asleep
Were all so fast asleep
But you woke us
You woke us from the strangest dream
that an aubergine could ever know
Would ever know
Would ever
Lava flows over crooks and craggy cliffs to the ocean
And explodes in a steam heat fevered cyclical motion
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
It's in vain cause the language is broken
So cast your own, cast your own (Soldier on)
Cast your own (Soldier on)
Cast your own (Soldier on)
Soldier on, soldier on
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