a person's true love; the one person they are both externally and internally, both consciously and subconsciously attached to with the realization that those feelings will never die; the one person that they know they can't live without

if they find this person, they are the luckiest in the world. if not, they are eternally screwed.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

A signal or warning. Miners used to bring yellow birds (canaries) in the mines with them to detect poisonous gases. The birds had more delicate systems than the miners so when the birds got sick or died the miners knew there were poisonous gasses and they had to get out of there.

1.The term yellow bird represents not only your true love but also love in general. In this sense of the term you shouldn't forget about the yellow bird, or true love, as when you stop believing in love you end up hurting those around you.

2.The yellow bird represents both the person you were with and the connection that you felt with them.

3.The warm yellow light, the happiness, between two people in love.

4.A common reference in Bright Eyes songs based off of a song by the folk artist Simon Joyner. This song speaks about how when you have this connection with your yellow bird your actions hurt them even when you aren't together.

a premonition seen by Perry Smith in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood", a book on the interviewed account of the killers of the Herbert Clutter family murder in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959.

Referenced by Conor Oberst in the song "We are Nowhere and It's Now" and In the song "Poison Oak"

a symbol for good luck or hope, seen in many Bright Eyes songs.

When a guy ejaculates out of a window 2nd storey or above. becomes a dangerous flying missile for pedestrians below and/or traffic