#SIA SHOUT IT OUT FREE#
#SIA SHOUT IT OUT WINDOWS#

In street after street, doors are deadlocked, and dark rooms are Rorschach blots of figures and faces, a hundred camera angles that show nothing but lead-painted words that build to a poisoned Babel. A breeze ticks time on an empty phone box, its receiver swinging like hips that itch to dance. Bird calls to bird calls to bird, chattering rills and riffs, tentative vamps on aerials and washing lines, testing the tunes they carry in their blood.

Insect buzz bobs and bends, a sprung chord looping between parked cars and lampposts. Listen: behind the boarded-up library, or there where brambles stitch dead-end streets to old railway embankments – a song. It’s that second when you’re almost awake. The sky is a coarse blanket, with sharp corners tucked tight.

#SIA SHOUT IT OUT WINDOWS#

On November 7, 2015, Sia performed on Saturday Night Live, when Donald Trump was hosting the show.In every town the windows are painted black, like shut eyes searching the streets for lost dreams, and silence seals mouths and letterboxes, hushing every voice.

The song was released on the 3rd of November, the day after This Is Acting was announced. It is to be the second single from Sia’s 2016 album This Is Acting, which is comprised of songs that Sia wrote for Adele, Beyonce, Rihanna and others. The track is dominated by an extended metaphor: comparing living in an abusive relationship to being a mistreated captive bird. That became a big thing through the movie, but I could not believe they rejected ‘Bird Set Free’ because to me it was such a big, anthemic, fun, sing-along-in-the-car song.” Then it was intended to appear on 25, it was ultimately deemed unsuitable, and so Sia nabbed it for herself. They rejected it and took another song of ours called ‘Flashlight’. The truth is that we wrote ‘Bird Set Free’ for Pitch Perfect 2. Sia said “I had seller’s remorse with ‘Bird Set Free’ every time it went away and then came back. The song was also offered to Rihanna at one point, but she (obviously) declined. Soulful “Bird Set Free” was written by Sia and Tobias Jesso Jr.

#SIA SHOUT IT OUT FREE#

Clipped wings, I was a broken thing Had a voice, had a voice but I could not sing You'd worn me down I struggled on the ground So lost, the line had been crossed Had a voice, had a voice but I could not talk You held me down I struggle to fly now But there's a scream inside that we all try to hide We hold on so tight, but we cannot deny Eats us alive, it eats us alive Yes, there's a scream inside that we all try to hide We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die And I don't care if I sing off key I found myself in my melodies I sing for love, I sing for me I shout it out like a bird set free No, I don't care if I sing off key I found myself in my melodies I sing for love, I sing for me I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free Now I fly, hit the high notes I have a voice, have a voice, hear me roar tonight You held me down but I fought back loud And there's a scream inside that we all try to hide We hold on so tight, but we cannot deny Eats us alive, it eats us alive Yes, there's a scream inside that we all try to hide We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die yeah And I don't care if I sing off key I found myself in my melodies I sing for love, I sing for me I shout it out like a bird set free No I don't care if I sing off key I found myself in my melodies I sing for love, I sing for me I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free I'll shout it out like a bird set free

Sia shout it out