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Neon Indian – Polish Girl Lyrics 14 years ago
Do I still cross your mind?
Your face still distorts the time

this is the most important part of the song as it links music and lyrics together.

right before he asks "do i still cross your mind" the music takes on a different note alltogether.

do you even think about me?
but in my head your face is still giving me thoughts (that i may be over-thinking)

it sounds as if the warping sounds themselves are asking questions. those warping noises are the raw emotions themselves.

basically the speaker is in a vacuum by himself. he lives within his head...how can he know the reality when the clues tell him something else.
everything is in perspective. we live through perspective.

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Neon Indian – Polish Girl Lyrics 14 years ago
With heat struck afternoons long through
Those idle dreams go back to you
The echo seems so low displaced
Everything that's not your face, I'm drifting off to

during long afternoons he daydreams about her.
he is in a room looking around but at the same time thinking about her. he looks at different objects but the "echo" of her face remains in his consciousness.

boy of infiltrations
That what was made of constellations that I've saw
Was this only in my head
Just like most things go misread
When overthought

he sees things in "constellations"(symbolic objects) that make him think of the possibility of him being with her.
but all of it is only in his head. he feels like he is misreading "clues" because he over-thinks them.

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Neon Indian – Polish Girl Lyrics 14 years ago
the music goes very well with it in that it enhances what the lyrics say (or vice versa depending on your perspective)

It's been at least another year
And still I haven't got the chance to say
Always rolling off the tongue
Never said but nearly sung about a million ways

the only way he seems to get his feelings about a girl out is through music.

Every photograph and story
Trickled through the lengthy web of friends
I overthought but understood
Distant looks but looking good
And not the other way

facebook comes to mind with "lengthy web of friends" and how he sees the girl in pictures and comments.
he thinks deeply about the girl but he understands her feelings for him.
she gave him distant looks(this seems to be a theme in palomos songs)-as in she was thinking about him "but looking good" in a good way-she is interested. however (distant) could mean possible looks-in another time they could be together.
"not the other way"-not at other guys. definitely him.

she fails to remember- he thinks deeply about things that most would overlook.


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Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer Lyrics 14 years ago
it doesnt matter what is right and what is wrong or what builds character. all that matters are the emotions.

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Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer Lyrics 14 years ago
you're the one that I miss
from last summer when I'd stolen a kiss
hear the endless hiss
as it rolls into the starlit abyss
all my dreams reminisce
never thought this time it'd be like this

i missed that girl-she was different from the others
had a kiss with her LAST summer not this one and therefore this one is "deadbeat"
and hear the sounds it makes as it goes into glorified oblivion(the kiss rolls into the starlit abyss)
he has dreams of her-these dreams reminisce of LAST summer
and he never thought this summer would be "deadbeat"(dont know about this line)

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Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer Lyrics 14 years ago
YES!!!

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Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms Lyrics 14 years ago
but its even bigger man. i mean i know im pulling for stuff but i think it has to do with some sort of time travel.

what does "distant looks" mean? distant looks from your face-carry me to another place(the looks of her face transport him)

to a place where they where never found. a. a place in their relationship or b. a period in time and history. maybe in another period in time they are one.

i'd like to compare these lyrics and their contexts to deadbeat summer and how he "imagines" spending time with a girl during his summer.

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Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms Lyrics 14 years ago
the lyrics and music brought tears to my eyes

"while i am contemplating sounds"-genius lyrics. sounds are a textual substance in the vacuum the speaker lives in.

"distant looks from your face take me to another place"-her looks and her appearance take him on a journey of nostalgia.

"a place where we were never found"- i am currently researching this line: to a vacuum as stated earlier?
or is the speaker a man who has the visions of time periods.

as we take the nostalgia of a world once remembered and transport there were "we were never found"


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Neon Indian – Local Joke Lyrics 14 years ago
sunburnt eyes roll- beautiful girl that rolls her eyes at him. she is shallow and does not understand his deep philosophical ideas.

part of me wants to watch and laugh as they go up in smoke- he will prove her wrong and when he does, he will be happy.

she needs an excuse to end things-you have proven her wrong and now she wants to end things

basically the song represents a boy(18-20) who is into a girl that is shallow. she does not take him seriously at all and therefore she calls him a "joke". he will prove her wrong with his ability to craft "something" and she will not want to accept it, therefore she will "end things".

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