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Sun It Rises Lyrics
Red squirrel in the morning
Red squirrel in the evening
Red squirrel in the morning
I'm coming to take you home
Sun rising over my head
In the morning when I rise
Hold me dear into the night
Sun it will rise soon enough
Sun rising, dangling there
Golden and fair in the sky
Red squirrel in the evening
Red squirrel in the morning
I'm coming to take you home
In the morning when I rise
Sun it will rise soon enough
Golden and fair in the sky
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The lyrics are embarrassingly wrong. Please change them.
"Sun risin' over my head In the morning when I rise Hold me dear into the night Sun it will rise soon enough
Sun risin', dangeling there Golden and fair in the sky"
Three years later, the lyrics haven't been changed. SongMeanings would be such a great site if it had better moderation.
Three years later, the lyrics haven't been changed. SongMeanings would be such a great site if it had better moderation.
"Golden infant in the sky" ↠definitely a Teletubbies reference.
I believe this song is based on a poem called "The Sun Rising" written by the sixteenth/seventeenth century metaphysical poet John Donne. In the poem, the narrator speaks directly to the sun, expressing his anger towards its rising. He knows the sun will start the day anew and take him from his lover whom with he lie in bed. The narrator harasses the sun throughout the poem and wonders, "must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?". The narrator's internal conflict with the "motions" of the sun is resolved in the final stanza of the poem when he realizes "thy duties be to warm the world, that's done in warming us". He realizes he cannot reasonably be this enraged with the sun. Fleet Foxes takes this idea and uses a more optimistic approach. He says "hold me dear into the night", or enjoy the precious time they have together, because "the sun will rise soon enough" and tear them apart.
oook... i still have no idea of what is it about XD!
Ooh, red squirrel! I have to admit, that would make a lot more sense than the "red spoon" I thought I heard.
Ooh, red squirrel! I have to admit, that would make a lot more sense than the "red spoon" I thought I heard.
and it's definitely "Sun it will rise soon enough" and I'd say "golden and fair"
Golden and fair, not golden infant, I'm pretty sure.
it's certainly "golden and fair" rather than golden infant, but there is a more glaring error, it's not morning WINDOW, the line is "in the morning WHEN I RISE" - listen close and you can hear the last syllable of rise.
I've always thought the title was some kind of allusion to Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". Maybe not.
I hear
"Sun risin' over my head In the morning window Hold me dear into the night Sun it will rise soon enough
Sun risin', dangeling there Golden infant in the sky"