| Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I am not sure anyone could exactly say what this song means, since so much of the meaning is left to the listener. However, what I picture when I hear the song (with "darkening" in place of "don't give in") is someone calling out to another, most likely a lover. To me, this song is about a person who, as the night starts to fall, laments not having his/her lover with him/her. The first stanza of "lay me down" is the narrator thinking of the lover, the second stanza is the narrator noticing the darkness, and the third stanza reinforces the importance of the darkness to the narrator. The fourth stanza signifies the narrator wishing/asking for the lover to come back and be with him/her. The fifth stanza is the narrator realizing what he lost when he lost his/her lover, and the sixth stanza reinforces the importance of this to the narrator with repetition. The music supports this somewhat as well. The fast pace of the guitar-plucking seems almost frantic, and the bass drum sounds almost like a heartbeat. The narrator is scared. Some of the percussion elements drop out for the first to lines of "come to me," almost as if the narrator is holding his/her breath as he/she thinks about it (the guitar symbolizing racing thoughts). Then the elements such as tambourine rejoin the sound, as if he/she is feeling the momentary hope of the lover coming back recede. This is just what I hear, but with the vagueness of the lyrics, it is up to anyone's interpretation. That is part of the beauty in this song, and indeed the beauty in many of the songs produced by Fleet Foxes. |
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