Water Curses

This is amazing. I believe what Avey is trying to represent in this song is reaching a higher consciousness by mimicking such a natural thing as water. Being an artist, well being a good artist means being able to take the consciousness of the world and replicate or express it through an art form. When he says "I want to be like water and never have a doubt and reflect what is around my pool" he's basically saying I dont want to doubt the people around me as not being in the same consciousness as me. We as humans are reflections of each other. Our minds come from the same consciousness just put in different bodies. Also in the lines, "when you wake up from your snoozin' i'll tell you how to do it my way i'll tell you what I'm doin' there's a knife up in the drawer." I believe he's referring to this low level of spirituality that exists in our western culture. A lot of people are completely spiritually unconscious therefore kind of walking around in a comatose like state working there 9-5's and getting all of there knowledge from the noise box in the corner of there living rooms. Therefore they are "snoozin'" in low vibrations. Most of the answers to finding god are in this song. Something you could learn from a hallucinogenic experience as well. But take it from Animal Collective, they know what's really good!

i think the perfect way to describe this is:

What do you guys think?

<i>i want to be like water and slip into your throat and make you feel alive and good</i>

Maybe I'm just a perv, but this struck me right away as a sexual reference.

this song is genius.

I hear it as:

To be a motion actor, Two broken strings attract her An invitation, life in gloom

Hesitate to throw a coin in, A wish could be a bad thing, My mouth is just a mesh of drool

And standing on the bridge I Wink at you from up high, I talk, a fish comes as she moves

I want to be like water And never need a doctor And carve the earth without my tools

(Do it all)

All of the things that I relate to well Like authors and painters Transparent paper wings That float above me while I sleep To make the room more natural So we could die in it and die in it, die

The color after sunset You'd do anything to jinx it, It'll crush your skull just like a willow He doesn't need a house His shoes will walk for miles There's a gypsy's face marked on my pillow

I want to be like water And slip into your throat And make you feel alive and new

I want to be like water And never have a doubt and Reflect what is around my pool

(Do it all)

All of the things that I relate to well Like authors and painters Transparent paper wings That float above me while I sleep To make the room more natural Till we could die in it and die in it, die

And all the dreams that I awake to read like ghosts awaitin' (s) And all the things I hate, I wish I didn't have to hate And find a room most natural To live on by in it, by in it, by

I don't think you know just what you're doing You pretend to know exactly all the things you keep on moving Said I don't think I know exactly what I'm doing But I tend to know exactly all the things you keep on moving

When you wake up from your snoozin Gonna tell you how to do it my way Gonna tell you what I'm doin Lazy night I play my drum

Anybody try to rob it And I'll find a way to stop it And it's all about the days you spend Well I'll be at our home

The mood this song creates is too good to only last 3 minutes. I ususally have to listen to this song more than once =) I also hear something like "so I can play my drums" but I'm not too concerned about the lyrics, although they are quite brilliant.

The one line I'm almost positive about that's different from the ones here is: "And all the things that I relate to well like goggles and paint tubes."

It should be "mesh of drool" at the beginning.

i've probably listened to this song for more than an hour on repeat 5 times in as many days

I want to listen to this forever! I especially love it starting at 2:03. Oh man, so so soo goood.

great job on these lyrics! I couldn't understand but a few words he was saying.