{"id":3583216,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3583216/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-26T11:55:32-08:00","show":65215,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65215/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The Birds","track_id":"df57f31a-dc18-32dc-a122-419787e0a4d5","recording_id":"8b452bf1-732e-4ec2-95a4-58c0a83d57a3","artist":"Elbow","artist_ids":["3cb3928a-526c-4a3d-93c5-53315fa9bde0"],"album":"Build a Rocket Boys!","release_id":"7f1be9aa-425e-32c1-8ac0-0dcb9b1e368c","release_group_id":"f1071218-4843-4360-ab81-f93dc1707ce0","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2011-04-12","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Off of Elbow's fifth studio album 'Build a Rocket Boys!'. This song sticks up for an old man in a nursing home, chided for reminiscing about a failed love affair. Said frontman Guy Garvey to The Sun: \"It bugs me that old people are patronized. And the lyrics to that song see the old man recounting the end of this affair while being patronized. 'Oh here we go again.' I liked the idea about the last encounter of a love affair, where the bitterness has gone and the birds are the only things that witnessed it in the line. 'The birds are the keepers of our secrets.' It's quite a dark song.\" https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/elbow/the-birds\n\nhttps://elbow.co.uk/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}