Little Birds - Jeff Mangum

NMH performance @ Chris Bilheimer's Birthday Party 5/12/98
Little birds born without a mother or a father
I can watch their bodies forming in the running water
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
A hundred altogether within me now
Little bird, little bird come into my body
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
Bodies multiplying until they finally overtake me
Open up my mouth but all you'll ever hear is singing
Put you hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them
Daddy come to touch me but he seen his hands are shaking
Look into my eyes and he could see their bodies breaking
Push me to the floor and in his hands I started beating
"I don't want to hear it anymore", he kept repeating
Do you really want the burning hell that we believe in?
Did you know the burning hell it took your baby brother?
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
And deep in sin they held each other
So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in
Knowing God in heaven could have, never could forgive him
So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his brains in
Little boy born without a father of a mother
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
And here beneath the water I can see
How the lights distort so strange
And I think this is how I would like to leave my body
And start again

[@frazier117]

im sorry dawg, but i didnt pay $40 to be swarmed by security every time i even turn my screen on. it's seriously pretentious bullshit. NMH has some of the best music ive ever heard, and i cant even see a cool show because the creator is a paranoid hermit, and the outspoken fans are the most pretentious douchebags ever that i feel guilty sometimes for even liking this music. alas, i must be steadfast because culture will die in 23 years

[@lloplop]

Yea i no longer support or like jeff magnum. ruined the music for me. fuck them all. I'm close to deleting these videos ppl should grab them if they want them

[@hoddog7529]

whaddaya mean paid 40 bucks

[@frazier117]

Jake Ford like a ticket price?

[@frazier117]

JM freaks the fuck out when people record any part of his show

[@hoddog7529]

im pretty sure hes no longer that paranoid but what do i know

[@Bumbleberger]

Jeff Magnum is a national treasure. "And here beneath the water I can see How the lights distort so strange And I think this is how I would like to leave my body And start again" Powerful, powerful stuff.

[@frazier117]

Bumbleberger it's good lyricism but ur a derelict douche. his shit WILL fade away because his fans will make sure his music dies with them. Elliott Smith was basically the same shit, but he touched more people universally than Jeff Mangum ever will.

[@kitpalmer1583]

frazier fuck are you talking about? you had the nerve to call Jeff Mangum pretentious when you're commenting shit like this? lmao

[@panscentralexpresspresents4733]

@@kitpalmer1583 Exactly.. People are just angered by the distance Jeff puts betweem himself and the public.

[@mussman717word]

Until last night, he said THIS was the ONLY time he performed this song in public... I got to see it the second time, and it was great. I'm so glad Jeff decided to play it. I know it was tough for him to revisit that place, but he did and it was beautiful. Thanks so much, Jeff. You gave me one hell -- or should I say heavenly -- of an experience.

[@TheBbqbanana]

This was recorded the very same day I was born!

[@iMachboos]

Art. at its peak. Jeff takes simple chords..lands heavy lyrics and fictional melodies and creates songs that even my hairs understand and decide to stand up for in respect.

[@ShuuussshKabobs]

One of my favorite songs of all time! I never get sick of it.

[@freshandlegal]

I heard this Saturday night at the loews theater and I'm still touched by it

[@untitledSWchannel]

And there you go....he was packing up that music for fourteen years.

[@gabagoolenjoyer]

I could definitely see a trumpet in this song.

[@AtlanticSpamHammer]

I think there is one in the studio version :)

[@phineasmurph9539]

AtlanticSpamHammer nope

[@mitchelwalsh5356]

Holy shit same profile

[@untitledSWchannel]

yeah, I love that bootleg dude. more than almost anything.

[@Sarahlinii]

There...are..no words.

[@melkicia]

saw this on saturday in brooklyn - the studio version was similar to the live version

[@lloplop]

@shipoffoolsful It was at a private party for his friend Chris Bilheimer. I think he was a graphic artist that designed the cover for ITAOTS.

[@Yeaaayuhhh]

Genius.

[@AnotherFoxglove]

Best. Birthday Party. Ever.

[@jg99s11]

Thankyou sir.

[@nolanwolfe]

Awesome

[@mussman717word]

@lloplop Man, I can't believe it. That's excellent.

[@mikogale]

oh damn!!

[@panscentralexpresspresents4733]

People can talk shit all they want. Jeff has every right to not want his shows recorded. Obviously some of them did, and I'm thankful for the chaotic nature of the world for that. If jeff wants to be a hermit, who in the fuck has the right to say hes a piece of shit for that. My dream is to rise to an underground following, under the mystery of some sort of masquerade. Jeff invoked the true feeling of music, he is tap dancing with Pan as he skips into history. Peoples anger doesn't change that. How many people do you know that are camera shy? how many people do you that refuse to keep a face book? God damn, this some is about how something some one else thinks is fun and beautiful is beat down by others. I have some issues. I wont call them mental illnesses. But i have issues with perspective and thinking, or rather ideas, that alot of other people dont even consider or go through...... And there is depth in this world. If jeff was any more public with himself, He would have been torn down by bullshit media and everything and one else. If you had an opportunity to make money, you would, especially if it was from your fruits of labor. Your desire. I would love to make money off of my music so that i could live a better quality of life and create more music and art. Narcissism is a part of the human architecture. and your mad at jeff for marketing and making money, while there are those who rape and abuse. There are those who never made a dime in their entire lives, and live "humbly" yet they do otrocious things. I would never call Jeff scum because I grew up in house where sexual abuse and physical violence were the bad. My scale must be different. I've seen true sickness manifesting, and its much worse than any one whose made money. No ones bitching about that. WOnt you make a stand against true evil instead of popping off at the mouth about a muscian you probably got peer pressured into hating. Just because people are mad at him doesnt mean you have to be. It seems like it all trickles back to the fact that he is not seeking extensive fame rapidly, that he doesnt want EXTRA PUBLICITY> When a person records a show and puts it on youtube, thats like, a magazine running an article. any thing could come from it. Look at what happens to the famous. Maybe jeff knew he didnt want that. PS phones cause radiation and they should be destroyed any way/

[@YouTuHigh]

I love this song. I do not like the studio version at all. This version is superior and perfect.

[@neros12346]

lITTLE BIRDS BORN WITHOUT A M O T H E R O R *A* *FATHER*

[@AtlanticSpamHammer]

This version isn't even finished... lmao your opinion is wrong

[@sydwhitaker5776]

It’s a real shame they ended like they did, but this is a really good version thanks for uploading!!!

[@lloplop]

what happened?

[@sydwhitaker5776]

GUCCI_SUSHI ya know, they went on hiatus for a while. They stopped making new stuff

[@nolanwolfe944]

@@sydwhitaker5776 Jeff said he would never release new material, but Little Birds just made it to Spotify, so I don’t know

[@NighttSwimmming]

wow..

[@englishgamer754]

Where did you get the video for this? I've only ever found the audio for it.

[@lloplop]

+englishgamer754 I pulled it off youtube several years ago, probably anticipating it could disappear. I enjoyed the performance and wanted to protect it, I guess

[@englishgamer754]

Well, thanks for preserving it, it's a great performance.

[@lloplop]

I'm deleting it soon, you may want to grab it

[@englishgamer754]

GUCCI_SUSHI will do.

[@lloplop]

Because Jeff Mangum is a total piece of trash thanks for reminded me about this

[@oldladyhater]

jesus fuck he has that legendary haircut here

[@lloplop]

@melkicia oh shit. I had no idea that happened! I stand corrected. Thanks!

[@lloplop]

@iamabomination2 or this version on the Chris Bilheimer's Birthday Party 5/12/98 recording

[@melkicia]

@lloplop look up little birds studio - he also put it, with this version, on a record in the nmh box set.

[@Vartex]

I wish jeff didn't have the flu when he did this song it would sound so much better

[@lloplop]

@melkicia studio version? this is the only version that exists. i saw it too in new haven last week. i had tickets to the same show on sat but got snowed in :/

[@lloplop]

@Vartex sounds perfect to me.

[@BlackKnightDipper]

Jeff Mangum composes the most perfect melodies to epitomize every feeling of the human condition. A little gay, but for me, it's true.

[@cjhunt9532]

bruh this is literally a protest song against homophobia and you gonna be complaining that it's "a little gay"???????????

[@PossumEnjoyer420]

@@cjhunt9532 lol cope

[@mussman717word]

@lloplop I know, me too. They didn't allow any cameras, but who knows if someone discretely brought one or not?

[@weamdebest]

@jaybyrd570 You can go to zamzar. com go to the "download files" tab and put in this link and your email address and you can convert this into Mp3, mp4, or whatever you want. its such a useful site

[@jaybyrd570]

Where can I download this video? Or at least the audio.

[@danny3flip]

@danny3flip as in strum pattern.

[@Vartex]

@lloplop yeah i know it sounds good but, it just sounds like he has a cold dosen't he? and he was sick often during this time or somthing similar unless its just the microphone capturing the reverb of the room or somthing.

[@lloplop]

@mussman717word there is a video check my favs its a few videos down

[@lloplop]

@mussman717word I really hope someone got it on video.

[@jaybyrd570]

@lloplop Never mind, I found it, but thanks

[@danny3flip]

how does he pick the strings?

[@lloplop]

@jaybyrd570 if you message me your email address, I'll send you the song.

[@TomboiTopUwU]

LoL I want the drugs he is on...

[@angelballesteros6017]

seraphim sloth antidepressants

[@user-rx3js1no3s]

cringe