Leaf House

On the radio today there was nothing but animal collective on this one station and I heard this song twice, which made me think of what this song is about... If anyone has read House of Leaves, I think that's where a lot of this song came from. Besides the obvious (the name), the lyrics:

This house is sad, because he's not inside it...

In the book the characters get obsessed with a house that has a labyrinth inside it and they explore it. One of the main characters Navidson wants to forget about it but can't and always returns to try and figure out how it works or why it's there. It breaks up his family and ruins his life.

There's no one, there's no one, there's no one There's no one, there's no one, there's no one...

Everyone that enters the labryinth feels a sense of something waiting to attack, they just never actually see anything. This might be what they were telling themselves.(?)

Meow, kitties Meow, kitties...

In House of Leaves Johnny Truant says Zampano always had cats around him, and he was always wondering why.

If anyone has read the book I'm talking about, let me know what you think. Maybe I'm just over thinking this because of some stuff I was smoking but I thought this was pretty cool!

Sorry to be the typical stoner kid, but this song is amazing high hehe

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH ANIMAL COLLECTIVE BEING SO AWESOME DAMNIT! ?

i can honestly get HIGH off this music alone...its so inspirational.

This song is amazing, I've been listening to it over and over for about 45 minutes now and i could do this all day! i feel like i'm in this weird dream world right now and I'm not even high... it's like, speaking to my soul right now. except it is so CREEPY at the end meow KITTIES meow oh my god

I get the sense that most Animal Collective songs are less about the lyrics than the overall feelings and images evoked by the music itself.

This is my favorite Animal Collective song. (KITTIES!)

in the beginning of the song, they're chanting 'I love you' you have to listen pretty close, b ut I KNOW that they're saying "i love you' in the beginning 15 seconds.

and you have nothing better to do with your time than declare the the supposed lameness of musical artists on the internet??

THAT's pretty lame.

has anyone thought this might be referring to the book "house of leaves" by mark danielewski?

I checked the booklet for this CD and it says "All tongs were mixed by Rusty, Panda, and Avey at Green Leaf House in January 2004" Might be an influence for the title.