Starlings

Marsha and the Positrons

This song is also available on Marsha and the Positrons award winning album Energetic.

'Sup world? Marsha. Positrons. SaulPaul.
The starlings fly, unified
Making amazing shapes in the sky
Let’s unify, fly right
When we are together let nothing divide us (Let’s go), yeah

The starlings fly
Shapes in the sky
Never collide
Making formations (That’s it)

How do they know? (How do they know?)
Which way to go? (Which way to go?)
Cloud ebbs and flows (Cloud ebbs and flows)
It’s called a murmuration

Like a marching band
Every step planned
Speeding over land
Starling formations

Scientists don’t know
Why no one goes rogue
What secrets will unfold?
Of their murmurations

Such a surprise (such a surprise)
Before my eyes (before my eyes)
Bird clouds arise (bird clouds arise)
Making formations

The starlings go (the starlings go)
Fly to and fro (fly to and fro)
Magical show (magical show)
It’s called a murmuration

The starlings fly, unified
Making amazing shapes in the sky
Let’s unify, fly right
When we are together let nothing divide us,

Proud as a peacock
Graceful as a swan
Starlings do star things
They stand next to none
When you look up in the mirror
I hope you do the same
It’s OK to be different
You can do your thing
I’m talking left, right, left, right
Jig with it — that’s fresh, right?
You give a little, you get a little
When we come together we shine extra bright
Take a chance and learn the dance moves
Do all that you plan to
Attitude on can do
While we shine bright like candles
(That’s it)

So many birds
I’m lost for words (I’m lost for words)
Their roar is heard (their roar is heard)
As they make formations
It’s an intricate dance
Will you take the chance?
Start making your plans
A unified formation
The roar is heard
In a unified formation
Our roar is heard
A unified formation

Book suggestions for this song:

We Are Starlings: Inside the Mesmerizing Magic of a Murmuration by Robert Furrow, Donna Jo Napoli
How Starling Got His Speckles by Keely Parrack, Antonio Boffa
The Starling’s Song by Octavie Wolters

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