Don’t they know I can’t sleep?
It’s 5:30 am here, I’m exhausted but can’t sleep, and the birds are singing their friggin heads off.
I’m so tempted just to stick my head out the winow and yell “Go away!” which would probably get them to scatter. Unfortunately, it would also get my neighbors to hunt me down.
“Just like me, they long to be, close to you…”
Yeah, don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
Maybe they want you to go worm huntin’ with them.
“Why do these eyes of mine cry?..”
It ended when he said, “goodbye”…
This is one of my “misheard lyrics” songs. For years I thought she was saying, “Don’t say no. It’s the end of the world” and she had a lisp.
because they want to cheer you up ! 
when the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along
they’ll be no more sobbin’ when he starts throbbin’ his own sweet song …
Rockin’ robin, tweet, tweedly deet
Rockin’ robin, tweet, tweedly deet
It’s just the Swallows letting you know they’re Back from Capistrano. 
“Bye,Bye Blackbird” surely fits into this ornithological songefest. A very sad song indeed, not razor blade stuff, but still sad and poignant. Thank you Shirley Booth, wherever you are.
Why do birds
Fall down from the sky
Every time
You walk by…
I’m not sure but I think it’s where the expression “Birdbrain” comes from.
They call it the dawn chorus on PBS shows.
Makes sense to me, I’ve definitely been a bird brain all day from the lack of sleep.
That, and I’ve had “End of the World” in my head since I typed the thread title. Agony!!
*I wake up in the morning and I wonder,
why the birdies have to scream birdy songs
I can’t understand, no I can’t understand,
why then go on all morning long.
I think that I’ll buy me a shotgun,
and blast every bird that’s in sight.
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
It ended when I said, “Good night.”* :eek:
with apologies to Karen and Richard Carpenter
Beautiful, bravo. This is my new anthem. (Tonight is looking like another insomnia fest)
I could lend you a cat. Or two. Or three.