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Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able Lyrics 16 years ago
This is song MEANINGS, right?

This song seems to me to be pretty clearly about guilt and cheating on someone you truly love.

The lines that make this the most clear:

"And when I shuffled on back home
I made sure all my tracks in the snow were gone"

"I want you to know what I did, I did"


The lines:
I’m gonna take a stab at this
Surely we’ll be alright
Make a decision with a kiss
Maybe I have frostbite

seem to suggest the decision to TELL the loved one about what was done, to come clean.
And, perhaps the ultimate meaning behind this song, the question of whether you have it in you to go through with it, to mend what's been broken:

"Hope I’m ready, able to make my own good home"

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