Lyrics:

On lead-poisoned wings
You try to sing
Freak beak shrieks are thrown
At your confusing hue
The peacock screaming eyes
Show no mercy
Oh, no mercy

(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Oh, painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
(Painted bird)

The flock will make you choke
On this sadistic joke
And the whippoorwills
They make a din
In laughing unison
You're hitchcock carrion
In laughing unison
You're hitchcock carrion, carry on

(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Painted bird
It's absurd
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
(Painted bird)

I hear your sorrow
Maybe tomorrow
You'll lose your sorrow
When a fated weather will cleanse away
That painted feather
And all that sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
Ooh

A coquette in fur
Purr for the painted bird
Confound that dowdy flock
With a sharp-honed nerve
Because we're painted birds
By our own design
By our own design
And there's no more sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, woah-oh

(Painted bird, it's absurd)
(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Have you heard
About the painted bird?
Just a tainted bird
Hurting their twisted nerve
We've lost our sorrow
Now it's tomorrow-morrow
No need to hide your feather
Until a fated weather
(Painted bird, it's absurd)
No more sorrow, sorrow
We've lost our sorrow
(Painted bird, it's absurd)
Now we're painted birds
Mocking that twisted nerve
(It's absurd)
Painted birds
(It's absurd)
It's absurd