Follow the Birds

Choose which version you want to watch here.

Flying birds
Excellent birds
Watch them fly (There they go)
Falling snow
Excellent snow
Here it comes (Watch it fall)
Long words (Excellent words) (I can hear them now)
This is the picture (this is the picture)
This is the picture (this is the picture)
This is the picture (this is the picture)
This is the picture (this is the picture)

I'm sitting by the window
Watching the snow fall
I'm looking out. And I'm moving, turning in time
Catching up, moving in (Jump up)

I can land on my feet, look out
This is the picture
This is the picture
This is the picture (this is the picture)
This is the picture (this is the picture) etc
(Looking out, watching out)
(When I see the future I close my eyes)
(I can see it now)

I see pictures of people (rising up)
I see pictures of people (falling down)
I see pictures of people (they're standing on their heads)
(They're ready)
I see pictures of people (rising up)
I see pictures of people (falling down)
I see pictures of people (they're standing on their heads)
(They're ready)
(They're looking out) look out
(They're watching out) watch out
(They're looking out) look out
They're watching out,
I'm watching, watch out
I see pictures of people
I see pictures of people (they're watching, they're watching out)
I see pictures of people (watching out)
I see pictures of people (they're watching, watch out)
I see pictures of people (they're watching, watch out)
I see pictures of people (they're watching, they're watching out)
I see pictures of people (they're watching, watch out)
I see pictures of people (watching out)
I see pictures of people,
Hey, hey !

Pay attention to the different and ominous meanings of look out / looking out / watch out / watching out.

When I see the future, I close my eyes is the title of an exhibition in London at the moment. Heba Y. Amin is one of a new breed of artists working with archives and documentary form to express and portray our world. (More information about that later.) For now just listen to her interview and try and understand the subject of her latest research. Keep following the storks.

Crane in flight.