Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. 
 
But this year’s missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, intense sentiments resurface. 
 
But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family’s talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed. Gypsies are blamed.
 
As the diversion subsides, their thoughts shift back to the recordings. 
 
The Pilot and the Parrot is a story about the power of the message, and messenger, to impact the emotions of recipients. 
 
Will the company kept determine Marcus's fate? "To Be" is a song about the despair associated with a life surrounded by losers and expectations for endings never pleasant. Can there be hope for those whose lives are all turned around? The sun does rise every day.
 
To be the Devil’s Friend
 
Sunrise sixty-six 
And passing time
Tending the devil’s crop
And power lines
 
Living day to day
The reaper’s boss
When the heat's a coming on
The pawns get tossed
 
Strong arms all around
They’re in control
Don’t think for yourself
Do what you’re told
 
Wake up each day
Watch the sun going down
The night shift never ends
And headaches pound
Always feeling sick
My life’s turned all around
 
Wake up each day
Watch the sun going down
The night shift never ends
And headaches pound
Always feeling sick
My life’s turned all around
 
Hard to make real plans
When blood runs cold
Being the devil’s friend, 
Means your soul's been sold
 
Whose face now appears
In the headlines
All those sad, sad tales of
Death, somehow
 
To be the devil’s friend
Means you’ve been cast
A life so furious
It just can’t last.
 
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