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Sweet Road Lyrics

wee, ~laughter~
hurry up, no
hurry up, huh

it started like a stone
i grew it out but then i rested it
i found sweet road
it came announced on the right
i left my purse then found the road

i'm tainted in a patchy problem
none can tell what i can tell ya
let them eagles have good times
it's a road and not a soda

i found sweet road,
i found sweet road

it started like a stone
i grew it out but then i rested it
i found sweet road
it came out of us on the right
i left my purse then found the road
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Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

The song has a simple, childlike dream logic. Put down your burdens (stones, purse, guilt, worry, materialism, status, the blahs) and the sweet road of life will roll out before you.

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I thought the its a road and not a soda was a pretty hilarious line. Sweet road sounds like a good soda, but he was also commenting on how you're not gonna find the sweet side of life in artificiality. And I think let the eagles have good times is something about being above things like that, soaring highhhhhh

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Yes, this is the most accurate analysis on this comment thread.

I thought the its a road and not a soda was a pretty hilarious line. Sweet road sounds like a good soda, but he was also commenting on how you're not gonna find the sweet side of life in artificiality. And I think let the eagles have good times is something about being above things like that, soaring highhhhhh

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Yes, this is the most accurate analysis on this comment thread.

I thought the its a road and not a soda was a pretty hilarious line. Sweet road sounds like a good soda, but he was also commenting on how you're not gonna find the sweet side of life in artificiality. And I think let the eagles have good times is something about being above things like that, soaring highhhhhh

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Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

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Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

"it started like a stone I grew it out but then I rested it I found Sweet Road"

Ok so this is the only part of the song that I can even slightly shake a stick at. I think it is about maturing and growing a beard. Yes I know it sounds silly but think about the above lines in that context. The narrator's chin "started like a stone." In other words it is smooth like a stone and there is no beard. Then the person grew out his beard and "rested it" which I think means he kept it a certain length. Then he finds "sweet road" which I take to mean the future path, the right path, that he will follow for the rest of his life. Maybe it refers to the life of a wanderer on the "sweet road"? I'm not sure, but I do get a general feeling of growing up and maturing.

Side Note: the time signature in this song is very odd. I think it is mixed meter, or perhaps standard meter with some off-beat accents. It's hard for me to decode because very little of the song stays consistent rythmically.

i was watching an interview of AC n they talked alot about their time signitures,ect. they said they didn't really use em. idk

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Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

Well the song's meter is in groups of 3, 3, 3, 4, so it's pretty much in 13 time. That is, until it goes into "I found sweet road I found sweet road I found sweet road" with no musical breaks inbetween them then it's just in 6.

As for the lyrics, I don't really know. Like, at all.

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hmm interesting...

and no isnt in repsonse to hurry up

if u listen closely, someone is talking in the background asking something and the voice says no

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it isn't meant to be in response, what are you talking about?

Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

you write as though someone is saying hurry up, and a voice is repsonding no

but really faintly someones asking a question i cant make it out and it says no in response to that

Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

this is my favorive animal collective song. this song is kinda hard to understand what they're saying though.

Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

this song really is lovely lovely it has a lovely mood

I like their style. strange.

Cover art for Sweet Road lyrics by Animal Collective

:D SMILE!!! :D