Little Birds (song)

"Little Birds"
Song by Neutral Milk Hotel from the album Little Birds
Released December 12, 2011
Recorded December 1998
Genre Indie rock, indie pop
Label Neutral Milk Hotel Records
Writer Jeff Mangum
Producer Jeff Mangum

"Little Birds" is the only song by Neutral Milk Hotel written after the release of In the Aeroplane over the Sea of which a recorded version exists. Jeff Mangum played the song live and before the song described what it was about:

It's the beginning of a story where a boy is in a not-so-nice situation. One day, little birds start to form around him in his room. They start coming into his body and he was very happy about this. But unfortunately he tries to share it with other people and they get very upset because this is something that he finds to be very beautiful but they don't find very beautiful and they want to destroy it.

—Jeff Mangum