Buffalo Tom – Birdbrain (1990)

Buffalo Tom are an American alternative rock / punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, that formed in 1986. who’s members are Bill Janovitz (guitar), Chris Colbourn (bass), and Tom Maginnis(drums). The band’s name is derived from the band Buffalo Springfield and the first name of the drummer.

The Birdbrain single, was taken from the band’s second album, both being released in 1990. The video is mainly  in black and white, and shows the band playing the song, interspersed with various images and clips from films.

I’m out, I’m out in bushes
Playing, playing with plastics
Birdbrain, they say I’m a birdbrain
If I am then can I just fly away

Shoe straps and eyelashes washing my brain
Twenty-five years are just washed down the drain

They are, they are a drunken bird
Flying, into the windows
Birdbrain, they say I’m a birdbrain
If I am then can I just fly away

Shoe straps and eyelashes washing my brain
Twenty-five years are just washed down the drain

Shoe straps and eyelashes washing my brain
Twenty-five years are just washed down the drain

If I am then can I just fly away