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The Beach Boys – I Just Wasn't Made For These Times Lyrics 15 years ago
thank you for that. a lot.

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Animal Collective – Grass Lyrics 16 years ago
howwwwww. interesting comment

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Animal Collective – Grass Lyrics 16 years ago
what is the recipe for cheese on toast

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Andrew Bird – Oh No Lyrics 16 years ago
i really liked your breakdown of the way his lyrics sound. and yeah i also couldn't make out the words, and when i found out I was a bit surprised and intrigued. your reasoning on foreign languages is cool too, but i'm just wondering if there is a point when a foreign language becomes less beautiful...if we learn it? i dunno.

his lyrics are great, but i also think The Shins have really awesome lyrics. james mercer's writing on Wincing the Night Away (album) is reallly something to think about

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Panda Bear – Search for Delicious Lyrics 16 years ago
oh that would suck....yeah. i think.

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Panda Bear – Bros Lyrics 16 years ago
Well what if you have friends which you consider to be Bros? Though yeah, Brother Sport is would be more family member-matt-ish.

hello

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Panda Bear – Bros Lyrics 16 years ago
Almost 2 years since you posted this but:

I completely agree with you. And I get what you're saying!

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Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky Lyrics 16 years ago
I'm not sure which version is better, the original BBC freak zone recording, or the recording on FBK. I think the instrumental loop is more entrancing in the BBC version, but avey sounds slightly better on FBK.

and having Panda Bear on backup vox is always a treat.

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Animal Collective – Graze Lyrics 16 years ago
if mpp was summer, this is surely autumn

a good autumn

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Animal Collective – Graze Lyrics 16 years ago
a very very tiny bit abovethedarksky (in response to the DK comment). only since you point it out. thank you.

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 16 years ago
i had a dream last night...and after a while i realized that that spot perfectly embodied the feeling.

I agree again!

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Panda Bear – Comfy in Nautica Lyrics 17 years ago
It's a little bit about all those things you guys posted about.

Settled?

Good.

Great lyrics, wonderful song.

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Animal Collective – Water Curses Lyrics 17 years ago
i think the perfect way to describe this is:

~~~~~~~~~~~~



What do you guys think?

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Animal Collective – Daily Routine Lyrics 17 years ago
official Daily Routine lyrics

Just a sec more in my bed
Hope my machine's working right
When it's just precisely tuned
That's how it's going to end up so nice

Make sure my kid's got a jacket
Keys and coat and shoes and hat
Strap a stroller to my back
Bouncing along every crack

What good is it to make it fast
Sing a song to pass the playground
What can I do as traffic pass
Guard my girl from muffler's black gas
What can I do to make it fast
Pop a jump but not too hard
Take a little look up at the ramp
Stop and look at the traffic signal

Just a sec more in my bed
Hope my machine's working right

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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Lyrics 17 years ago
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Sweet summer night but I'm stripped to my sheets
Forehead is leaking, the AC squeaks and
A voice from the clock says, "You're not gonna get tired"
My bed is a pool and the walls are on fire
Soak my head in the sink for a while
Chills on my neck and it makes me smile but
My bones have to move and my skin's gotta breathe
You pick up the phone and I'm so relieved
You slide down your stairs to the heated street
The sun has left us with slippery feet
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
And be here with you and go out

It doesn't really matter, I'll go where you feel
Hump for the breeze, get a midnight meal
I point in the windows, you point out the parks
Rip up your sleeves and I'll ditch my socks
Dance to the songs from the cars as they pass
Weave through the cardboard, smell that trash
Walking around in our summertime clothes,
Nowhere to go while our bodies blow
But we'll greet the dawn with morning blues
In purple yards we'll be sleeping soon
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you

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Animal Collective – Also Frightened Lyrics 17 years ago
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Ghosts came crowding around and then
I woke, you slept there on your side
From our window, two lanterns draw signs on the night
And light our two shadows I watch with delight
Will I want them to be who they will be
Or to be more like their dad

Will it be just like they're dreaming
Will it be just like I'm dreaming
Will it be just like they're dreaming
Will it be just like I'm dreaming

The influence is relative
Maybe I should let them
Maybe we should let them
And I have a question:

Are you also frightened?

And no one should call you a dreamer

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Animal Collective – Taste Lyrics 17 years ago
official

There's a secret place I hide that's deep inside of me
An elusive voice that tells me what I like now
You might think I'm going to judge you in your fancy place
I don't really give the credit to what taste does
Cause I don't care if you don't like that
You'll get your feelings hurt, but I'll forget its bad
And if I like you it's for your simple ways
And we will always be at a tasty place
And you can cook a rose but I don't eat those

(Taste, yeah it's the taste)
Taste

Doll, I dearly tried to like the clothes you chose for me
Something in my heart can tell me it's a weakness
But I got shocked and picked some flowers since you wouldn't dare
Take a woman's blouse and send it for your son to wear.
But when we share our important views
You get a glimpse of me, I get a glimpse of you
And I don't really care if I don't change your ways
If you won't always be at our tasty place
And you can cook a rose but I don't eat those

(Taste, yeah it's the taste)
Taste

Am I really all the things that are outside of me

Am I real

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Animal Collective – No More Runnin Lyrics 17 years ago
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No more runnin says my mind
All this movement has just proved
your kisses are too fine

Not much harmony
From what I see
Friends I once had
Turn their thoughts away from me

No more runnin
I've got to breathe
On back porches
With the torch of a firefly
And trees

It's what I hoped for
Whoa
It's what I hoped for
Whoa
No more runnin
No more runnin

Cause you are candy
In my teeth
Please don't lose your faith in me

If you are candy
In my teeth
Please don't lose your faith in me

No more runnin
Says my mind
All this movement has just
proved your kisses are too fine

It's what I hoped for
Whoa
It's what I hoped for
Whoa
No more runnin
No more runnin
No more runnin
No more runnin

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Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics 17 years ago
official

There isn't much that I feel I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious wait
And to provide the man you ask
I will, with heart, on my father's grave

I don't mean
To seem like I care about material things
Like a social status
I just want
Four walls and adobe slabs
For my girls

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 17 years ago
In the Flowers official

Met a dancer
Who was high in a field
From her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that spinning force
I felt in me
Everything around seemed to giggle glee
She walked up with a flower and I cared

Got a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats of record rhythms
But I'm always away for weeks
That pass slow my
Mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who'll dance despite anything
Oh while out in the flowers I feel better

If I could just leave my body for the night

Then we could be dancing
No more missing you while I'm gone
There we could be dancing
And you'd smile and say, "I like this song"
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing's wrong
And I wouldn't feel so selfish
I won't be this way very long

To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time

While we were dancing
Early hours
Drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane
Now I'm gone
I left flowers for you there

Shhh
You're a dancer
I'm a dancer

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Animal Collective – Guys Eyes Lyrics 17 years ago
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I really want to do just what my body wants to
I really want to do just what my body needs to
I really want to show to my girl that I want her
I really want to show to my girl that I need her

I want to do what my body needs to
I want to show to my girl that I need her

I started using my mind
And I used my hands
It was what I want to

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Animal Collective – Bluish Lyrics 17 years ago
Bluish official lyrics

When you claw me like a cat, I'm beaming
I like the way you squeeze my hand
Pulling me into another dream,
A lucid dream.

I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm getting crushed out on the things
that only I should see
not for boys, they're just for me
Hurry to talk, from far away

I can see you, you curl your fists and you pull your hair
When we're alone, I wanna say
Let's just stay in, no one's here (???????)

Put on the dress that I like
It makes me so crazy, though I can't say why
Keep on your stockings for a while
Some kind of magic in the way you're lying there

I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm getting rushed back on a whim,
Our breaths get wind
Back to the time when we will greet
I know we have changed
But I still grin 'cause I can't wait to see you
Back to the time I touched your hair

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Animal Collective – Brother Sport Lyrics 17 years ago
Official lyrics:

Open up your
Open up your
Open up your throat
And let all of that time
All of that time
All of that time
All of that time go!

I know it sucks that Daddy's done
But try to think of what you want
You've got to open up your
Open up your
Open up your throat

Matt!
Open up your
(Open up your)
Open up your throat

Open up your
Open up your
Open up your throat
And let all of that time
All of that time
All of that time
All of that time go!

I know it sucks that Daddy's done
But try to think of what you want
You've got to open up your
Open up your
Open up your throat

Matt!
Sport, brother
Support your brother

You got to weigh what you say
To help you change the way you play
You gotta get rid of your mourning
You gotta hound them til their done

Whoo!

Matt!
You're halfway until you're fully grown
You've got a real good shot
Open up don't hold inside:
"Keep it real, keep it real
Shout it out"

Until you're fully grown
You've got a real good shot
Open up don't hold inside:
"Keep it real, keep it real
Shout it out"

Matt!

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Animal Collective – Brother Sport Lyrics 17 years ago
This song is actually about a the African tribe 'Kawkly-Lokah-Hookah-Dookar-Par-Gook-foop-Loop'

Yes, the one and only 'Kawkly-Lokah-Hookah-Dookar-Par-Gook-foop-Loop'. Sometimes the tribe name is mispronounced as 'Slurp' because the language they speak sounds like old Russian with a lisp.

It'll hurt me, but here is the true meaning of the song (using all of the lyrics posted as of 1/18/09):

"Open up your throat" is what it is. So, these Slurps would open up their throats, and allow tiny black butterflies to fly out and cause the Slurps to create an "And let the all of that time go" sound.

"Matt!" refers to the tribe leader's name. Every Slurp tribe leader is called Matt, duh. Look it up on Wikipedia (aka the fountain of knowledge and blacks!). "Support your brother" is a war cry issued by the tribe leader, Matt, during times of intense labor and lovemaking throughout the world. (Note: this has only happened twice during the past 40 decades, once was during the coming of Christopher Walker, and the other when very yes.)

"You've got to weigh what you say
You ought to be ashamed of the way you play". This must've taken Animal Collective at least three years to decipher because that message is secretly tattooed on to every Slurp baby.

"Until you're fully grown" Yes. "You've got a real good shot" Yes! "Don't grow too old inside" YES! Essentially, this is the way of the Slurps. You don't want to read a book while sliding down a slide, do you? Well neither do the Slurps. Getting a little wood here and there won't make you younger, just older, but better!

Well according to 'Matt' of the Slurps, Brothersport = Brotherhood. Doesn't it? That's what Panda Bear and Avey were thinking about when they wrote this. All of the lyrics fall into the line of that invisible line between you and your brother, a connection that just isn't duplicated by any other bond in the world(well, the tie between a human and a dog comes close). There is also a mutual sense of encouragement even if there is constant fighting. Also, if the brother is separated by time or distance, there aren't words (obviously), but the interlude of the song (when Avey) sings is a great representation of it. In the end, it's all fun and games. AC says in this song "it's nice to be here, to be alive, to be with people" So: "Keep it real, keep it real, shout out"

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What I'm trying to say is 'Brothersport' = "Sport which brothers play" which is:


Brotherhood. And this song perfectly resembles it.


Good job AC.

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Animal Collective – Derek Lyrics 17 years ago
Does anyone know what this line means?

"Wrap your peckers what he told us me and mike looked at each other
Like whoa what was that then"

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Animal Collective – Brother Sport Lyrics 17 years ago
that sounds really accurate.

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Animal Collective – Bluish Lyrics 17 years ago
sounds like "and ever"

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Animal Collective – Bluish Lyrics 17 years ago
I'll figure it out.

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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Lyrics 17 years ago
i agree. funny comment.

the change makes sense. props.

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Avey Tare and Kría Brekkan – Who Wellses in My Hoff Lyrics 17 years ago
What do 'Wellses and 'Hoff' mean?

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Animal Collective – Taste Lyrics 17 years ago
haha he doesn't have to. someone else will eventually. just enjoy the album for now...

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Animal Collective – Daily Routine Lyrics 17 years ago
yeah, you right

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 17 years ago
This album means Sean Smither.

LOLE!!!

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 17 years ago
again.

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 17 years ago
the lyrics on this album are nothing short of genius.

oh the praise. oh the gift. we should all buy the album.

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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Lyrics 17 years ago
that really catchy line avey repeats:

"when the sun goes down, we'll go out again"

genius.

they're awesome

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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Lyrics 17 years ago
oh wow i spelled summer incorrectly...

(Just for us!)
(Yo guys!)
(Woo-hee!)

Zone (x4)

Shoots to my nine and obstructs to my sheets
Foreman is leakin'
My AC squeaks
And a voice from the clock says, "You're not gonna get tired"
My bed is a pool and my wall's on fire
I'm soakin' my head in the sink for a while
Chokes in my neck and I begin to smile but
My bones got to move and my skin's gotta breate
You pick up the phone and I'm so relieved

You slide down your stairs in just like a stream
And the sun has laughed as you slip your feet
And I want to walk around with you (x2)
With you (x2)
Oh it's...

(In distinct talking)

It doesn't make matter or gloom where you feel
Home for the breeze get a midnight meal
I open the windows you point at the part
You rip off your sleeves and I ditch my socks
We dance to the songs from the calls of their backs
We use that cardboard smell that trash
We're dancin' around in our summertime clothes
Nowhere to go but where our bodies go

And we breathe in the dawn it's morning blue
With purple on you'll be sleeping soon
And I want to walk around with you (x2)

And when the sun goes over the wagon (16x)

Dark cool light
Let me go on

They sieze the sound of the heat from the sound of the rain
It's easy to sleep when it wets my brain
It covers my rest with a saccharine sheen
Kissin' the wind 'till my windows scream
The rest is just coarse that I cannot hide
So much in my mind that it spills outside

Do you wanna stroll down a financial street
Our clothes will get soaked but the buildings sleep
And there's no one pushin' for a place
The inner path is an easy pace

And I want to walk around with you (x2)
I want to walk around with you
(x2)

Just you (16x)

just my hearing

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Avey Tare and Kría Brekkan – Sasong Lyrics 17 years ago
My interpretation, (chill out before you flame me, it's an opinion),
enjoyyourroots, i don't think it's better than sex, though it is something.

I think it's just amazing what Avey can think of and write down. His voice is perfect for this as well as the guitar playing. I think this is one song I'm glad he didn't do with the rest of Animal Collective and let Panda do the vocals. Overall, I think the song is just about interaction with people, and what happens around your life as everything moves. People move around all the time, and depending on your mood/memories/thoughts, you'll feel differently at every moment. I love this verse:

"There is a house on the trees
where all the shadows work and
they don't make their plans your plans"

I think Avey is talking about people you don't see doin' work for you/community/the world. They don't tell you about it, but the work gets done, and they don't bother you about it. It's just about you. The shadows could be your own shadow (maybe your tax money? nah, sounds lame), or shadows compared to your physical person/psyche.

"Then I eat with my people/and I laugh at the steeples/'cause Hell is my own bad thinking"

I think this literally means, Hell is made up in his mind, and that there really isn't anything to fear (the whole idea that Hell was created just so that people would be good, morally). Whatever.

"I know that the rain moves/and enters the dream pools/and diamonds are days with fire"

I don't know. What is rain anyway? This is just another way of telling a story. Raindrops are our memories or ideas bouncing in and out of our minds. One or two raindrops enter our minds and really dig in there--can only be pushed out by our dreams. Diamonds are days with fire, compression of matter? (where am i?). Whatever, I dont know?

What a great song.

"You can take all you want
from another person
In the end you find you lose your voice" <-- this needs no explanation.

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Belle & Sebastian – A Summer Wasting Lyrics 17 years ago
yea the first 'seven weeks of river walkways' is 'seven years'.

i do like the song a lot. i agree with lapinfourrure, he was wasted. i wish i knew what he meant by river walkways, but i can only think of something along the lines of an adventure...but maybe that's what i want it to mean. ha.

great. wonderful.

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of Montreal – A Collection of Poems About Water Lyrics 17 years ago
if i was a bird, i would poke holes in the clouds and sing

great song

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