Flightless Bird

I was a quick wet boy,

diving too deep for coins

All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys

Then when the cops closed the fair,

I cut my long baby hair

Stole me a dog-eared map

and called for you everywhere

Have I found you Flightless bird, jealous, weeping

or lost you, american mouth Big pill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat

Nursing my sore blunt tongue

 Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks

Pissing on magazine photos

Those fishing lures thrown in the cold

And clean blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding

or lost you,

american mouth Big pill stuck going down

I have been listening this song from Iron and Wine ,over and over again ,each day..since i heard it for the first time..
Fell in love with it the first time heard it,also as it features in one of the best romantic movies ever(may not for every1 :-)),,Twilight.

The lyrical imagery is meant to inspire a sensation of the loss of youthful innocence and an embracing of mature love with all of its challenges and rewards.

People are subject to their own interpretation and meaning. No one can really tell what it means except the writer.

 but would say that writers deep thoughts truly drowned me.
 Here's my interpretation..

first part of song,a quick wet boy.. represents innocence and childhood..
"diving too deep for coins" going too far and deep for something.
cut my baby hair is about loss of innocence..
stealing a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere,is trying to find your love ,
the one whos your better half..

dog eared map,,a folded map,because one has been looking for love everywhere and now the map is folded..people have looked there already,and those places are not for you,you wont find what you are looking for there.

Hav i found you..if u are really mine now?
The flightless bird is a special person, a flightless bird, someone who has evolved from their current state (a bird) to become an exceptional, special person,who wont leave u or fly away 4m u.  jealous and weeping because they can’t find anyone to accept them for who they are.

Nursing my sore blunt tongue..when u have a sore tongue.and u say things bluntly,which causes serious consequences. 
American Mouth, the ability to communicate, how the two lovers understand and talk to each other. Big pill looming , the future, what can happen to this love.

The house cat part is an analogy to becoming lazy in love, and not appreciating the person as the one who is your true love anymore. Pissing, ruining the relationship because you got too comfortable.This happens with every1 some day i believe,when you are so close and comfortable with someone and stop respecting there importance in your life,and may be take them for granted most of the times.

Later ,where the lover realizes that the relationship has changed. I see the clean blood of Christ to means I’ve judged and I want some atonement, to reconcile what we have become.

the love makes two lovers feel  like they could fly And since being made feel like they could fly, it’s lost now. But, American mouth, we can still communicate, this does not have to end, the big pill (the future) is stuck, but the two can stop it from going down.