Go with your two feet bare
Down through the cold lane there, to Brighton.
A country house, a liar and a louse live there.

Go with your arms held wide.
Happiness in your eyes, come and sit.
And stay the night. Turn out of the light you see.
And lay them down buried in the ground for me.

Whoa my love, Whoa my love,
Whoa my love, Whoa my love,
Whoa...

Tongues in a creatures way.
Drawn to the fragile legs, you walk on.
A cold wind blows right into the coast for me.
The cold wind blows right into the coast for me.

Whoa my love, Oh my love,
Whoa my love, Oh my love,
Whoa my love, Oh my love,
Whoa my love, Oh my love,
Oh...



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English House Lyrics as written by Robin Pecknold

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          Perhaps I'm just more mentally twisted than most but I interpreted the lyrics as someone who persuaded someone else who was infatuated with him to commit a murder for him.  
          He tells her to go down this "cold lane", which could signify the path in life she is about to go down if she decides to carry out this act for him. The cold symbolizing death, like in the winter all vegetation dies and animals hibernate.  The death or permanent hibernation of both the liar and the louse(parasite), hardly complements and probably people who have wronged the instructor in some way, and the woman's soul.
         She is in her bare feet so it is easier to sneak up on her unaware victims.  She makes her way into the home pretending to be innocent and loving.  The fact that she really isn't is why she must be convincing.  
          Turning out the lights, other than cloaking the inside of the house so an outside passerby can't witness the events, could symbolize her shutting God out of her life.  If not forever at least for that moment, similar to the way one might turn away a photograph of their dead grandmother as they are about to masturbate.  My apologies for the vulgarity but this was the best metaphor I could think of, I told you I was mentally twisted.  
          Now obviously "And lay them down buried in the ground for me" would be the act of disposing of the bodies.  
          "Tongues of the creatures wait" could refer to the demons of hell that are drawn to her in her spiritually weakened state "fragile legs".  After all tongues are commonly associated with flames, like in the story of Pentecost, because they both are red, and consuming.  
          Finally the line "A cold wind blows, Brighton to the coast from me"(I do believe it is "from me" not "for me")  could mean that the murderous chain of events that washed over the area of Brighton on that fateful night were directly cause by he who told her to do it.  
          Of course this was just my interpretation,  I still don't know the significance of Brighton and it seems to have a central meaning that could possibly contradict everything I've claimed.  Fun idea though I perceived a Fleet Foxes Song as an Edgar Allen Poe poem.                 
    lensesideways8on January 04, 2011   Link

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