This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Hey Light
In the curtain, in the room, in a well-made bed for two, I'm walking
Hey Light
I'd forgotten work today, 'cause you should work all day, they're walking
Hey Light, the colors will arise, keep it deep inside, we are also working
Hey Light
I can wear my moccasins
You have made me smile again
There ain't nothin' like you
In the curtain, in the room, in a well-made bed for two, I'm walking
Hey Light
I'd forgotten work today, 'cause you should work all day, they're walking
Hey Light, the colors will arise, keep it deep inside, we are also working
Hey Light
I can wear my moccasins
You have made me smile again
There ain't nothin' like you
Lyrics submitted by couldBanyone
Hey Light Lyrics as written by David Portner
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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I tried my best on this one because it is one of my favorite tracks from Here Comes the Indian. The faster verses in the beginning are hard to distinguish fully. If anyone has an idea about these send a comment and I will change them. Even withouth that comprehension it still is a very evocative and powerful song. The ending chant has an amazingly eerie campfire chant quality about it. The light could possibly be the sun or moon, a chant relating the simple splendor of the sun/moon.
Hey Light In the curtain, in the room, in a well-made bed for two, i'm walking
Hey Light I'd forgotten work today, cause you should work all day but they keep walking
perhaps?
I agree zoombiniss, all i can really make out is blababla walking. I wasn't sure so I decided to put quotation marks. Thanks for your input.
I have changed a couple after listening again.
good interps!
I love animal collective so much...but this song is just so strange. I can't get into most of this album. It makes me laugh though, because it's so random.
I think you have to be a long-time fan to get into this, for me this blends so well
this song is fucking cool. i love it.
i lllovee itt
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