Walking 'round Chicago
I have smuggled you as cargo
Though you are far away unknowing
By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase
Ironed the creases from my own remembering

She said: "Bird, oh why?"

We wound our way to Texas
And I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you
But there it lived and died, a notion

She said: "Bird, oh why?" 
And I said: "Bird, oh why?"

Oh, my satellite, oh, my passenger

We came up on Ohio
I have you chewed on like a biro
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering
We came up to Minneapolis
All fizzy blood and twitchy fists
I buried you in a day of snowing

She said: "Bird, oh why?" 
And I said: "Bird, oh why?"

Oh, my satellite, oh, my passenger
Oh, my satellite, oh, my passenger