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Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics 16 years ago
“I think we came from a place that was influenced by that stuff and certain ways of thinking that are aligned with psychedelic drugs or mind-altering moods and that sort of thing, but I think you can come to those ways of thinking through so many different ways...You can go there without the drug.” -Avey himself

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Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky Lyrics 16 years ago
i'd agree with tvw. i definitely translate alot of their lyrics to be about drugs, and to people who disagree you've probably just never done any. it's quite clear to me and they all did alot of drugs at one point; it's obvious based on interviews and lyrics.

does anyone know if they plan on releasing a studio version of this?

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Animal Collective – Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished Lyrics 16 years ago
listening this song on my bose headphones (high) i can now tell that it says if we're just dolphins (in the sea). it would make alot more sense and if you can listen closely enough you can hear the s sound pronounciated clearly

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Animal Collective – Street Flash Lyrics 16 years ago
Definitely about doing drugs, most likely heavy stuff like shrooms or acid. The couch has pretty much eaten him so he has inside fever, he doesn't want to get up or do anything.

"They'll show you all the things you are not doing"
I think means he can see people around him doing things that he's not because he's too lazy or fucked up.

Even though i definitely think it's about him on drugs, it can be applied to anyone. It's about one of those days where you just sit around and be lazy as hell when you know you should be doing something and even though it bothers you, you still can't find the motivation to get off your ass because it's so comfy.

Very trippy song, any ac gives me a natural high

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Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics 16 years ago
Also about the being dead thing a lot of people think they're dying when they have a bad trip. It's happened to one of my friends before and i read online that it happens alot

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Animal Collective – Safer Lyrics 16 years ago
Just my opinion i think this song is about a bad trip like cuckoo cuckoo. I think it's about all of his fears. He then realized that he doesn't know if there's any real danger and decides that he's alright if the person he trips with is alright too. When people trip the person they are tripping with's mood/state can affect there's alot and to know that they are okay is reassuring. Then his trip kinda changes and gets brighter mid song.

Then i think the person he's with is telling him his problems but he doesn't want to hear them because he's got enough of his own. then i think that person he is with or maybe himself starts getting all freaked out about torture and so he reassures him/himself that there's other ways to die

Feel free to disagree with me

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Animal Collective – People Lyrics 16 years ago
notice the amount of intellect we have compared to this arch nemesis guy who posted on the wrong song somehow. it's funny to see us and him juxtaposed like that haha.

Awesome song though. sounds to me like it should be in a movie for some reason

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Animal Collective – Loch Raven Lyrics 16 years ago
don't really hear the (turns into a wolf and attacks) part and i've listened to it like a hundred times

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Animal Collective – Kids on Holiday Lyrics 16 years ago
I also hear "is the food bothering you" in the beginning

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Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics 16 years ago
real booming bass. amazing with a good sound system, the build up is awesome it just explodes into full out ecstasy. epic

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Animal Collective – Hey Light Lyrics 16 years ago
I show this to my friends when they're high and they laugh their asses off. Very trippy and extremely creative. My favorite off here comes the indian easily but kinda drags on

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Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics 16 years ago
To me this song is a about a bad drug trip of some sort and he's going "cuckoo cuckoo," or insane.

Like someone said earlier he "lost his boy" meaning he can't make the connection with his past like he wants to. Sorta like in peacebone- "an obsession with the past is like a dead fly, a few things are related to the old times."

Also he is with people that he would prefer not to be around-
"it's odd where I am.
There are people you're not like them.
They just drift and pray for rain quenched golden days."

He's scared and wants his mom/friend, these are all signs of a bad trip.

Alot of times the music can control your trip. he wants to listen to one favorite song to chill him out for a little bit and better his trip but it ends to fast and he goes back to bad tripping.
"Sometimes all I want is is one favorite song.
Two to three minutes doesn't seem that long."

"Don't do any good to say this isn't what i planned"
Meaning that he knew this would happen because he wanted to trip.

This is just my translation of the song. Feel free to disagree with me but you can't argue that they don't take/used to take drugs, alot of their lyrics and interviews suggest that they do


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