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Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky Lyrics 14 years ago
it's actually in 7/8 time. The 8th note gets the beat in the song and the meter is subdivided into 3/2/2.

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Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky Lyrics 14 years ago
Although I will say that in the chorus they switch to a combination of 4/4 and 3/4 time.

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Broken Bells – Your Head Is on Fire Lyrics 15 years ago
Ok. Just my observations, I hear:

"Run and hide
Your head's on fire
Whirling masses
Rolling ashes

Dream of morning
Career dawning
Life in stasis
Folding aces"

To me it's about the frustration of being a spectator in this life, of seeing millions of millions of people living so blissfully unaware of what life really is, many of them miserably trapped by their families or careers, living in a state of dull stasis. "If they could only see what I see..." is the message I get.

I think this is an amazing song, the "Run and hide your head's on fire" part is almost patronizing, like a children's song, as if to symbolize the pressure to conform to everyone else in the working class. "Does anybody here feel like me?" is James Mercer's desperate reply, trying to rise over the noise of the masses.

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