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title: "Birds With Arms"

meaning: "Plague Beats meme monologue: cursed with arms not wings, curls till huge: king of birds, flex on peasants no pheasants, consolidate power and devour."

year: 2020
release: "Plague Beats, Vol. 1"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/birds-with-arms/1532121341?i=1532121346"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q7oAEFJK9uSHY4F8EJ5Td"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1DuubFYeg"

themes: ["Plague Beats", "meme", "2020", "internet", "absurdism"]

isrc: QZK6H2062926
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I wanna soar like my brothers do
  But instead, I'm cursed with arms
  I wave goodbye
  As I read the daily news

  I hold my umbrella
  My friend's are getting wetter
  I show them some attitude
  I do some curls, and now I'm getting huge

  Imma be a motherfucking king
  Of the motherfucking birds
  Use my motherfucking arms to
  Flex on these weak-ass peasants
  No
  Pheasants

  Imma hold a motherfucking sword
  Steal a motherfucking gun
  Use my motherfucking arms to
  Consolidate my power
  And devour
  I'm a motherfucking king

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Track five on [*Plague Beats, Vol. 1*](/albums/plague-beats-vol-1/) (**September 21, 2020**), one minute, Luke solo. The title is the [**Birds With Arms**](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/birds-with-arms) meme (photoshopped birds with human arms), here given a full villain origin: wingless envy, a gym montage, then open tyranny with a sword and a stolen gun.

The best line is the coup-speech homophone where the actual bird pun arrives as an afterthought: *flex on these weak-ass peasants / no / pheasants*. Same lane as [*Decreasingly Verbose (Ya'll'd'n't've)*](/songs/decreasingly-verbose-yalldntve/), an internet image worn as a first-person monologue.

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