Dory

im 90 percent on this one.

oh wildly cohering in a watery deep we’ll drop her down to the bottom we’ll drop her down like she’s nothing, and the water is all

the water is still in a wilder deep we’ll swim around like two dories we’ll swim around like two dories let loose in the bay

we’ll miss the heady hold on make steady, go there is no plenty
even keel already gone

I can’t be here all hour (such a riot) I can’t deserve this trouble I can’t be here all hour (such a riot) I can’t describe

I can’t be here all hour (such a riot) I can’t describe this, no (oh what a riot) I can’t be here all hour (oh such a riot) I can’t describe this, no

okay, so apparently what he sings inbetween (this is a direct source from Ed himself) is "such a riot, oh what a riot, such a riot". haha not "it's a dryer"

In a Drowned In Sound article called "DiSection: Grizzly Bear Veckatimest track-by-track" which features members of the band, Edward Droste says:

" At the moment my favourite track off the album, it was something dan and I came up with together back and forth upstate new york. <3 Dory. Feel like it might be "misunderstood". P.S. it's not about finding nemo! "

My first thoughts on this song: It reminds me of the Pixar film Finding Nemo. There's a fish called Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) and she's a total dunce. It made me think of two fools in love. This is likely wrong, but this is only my first impression.

what does Ed sing after the lines "I'll keep it here all hour" and "I can decide its color"? I always sing "it's a dryer" even thought that's so ridiculous... but it makes me laugh :)

to me, it feels like they are saying "I can't be here all hour"

This seems to be a more detailed version of the lines "And it was mamma, that got drowned in out, in that deep blue sea" from Deep Blue Sea.

Dory could be the mother's name, which is kind of a pun, as the definition of dory is " a flat-bottomed boat with high flaring sides"

So 'We’ll swim around like two dories" could be almost a macabre pun about Dory drowning...translated to "we won't swim well".

I don't know.

Could anyone tell me what key this is in?

Its kind of funny to me, my interpretation may be different from the majority, but I think its pretty dark. To me its a man infested with demons, schizophrenic possibly, and he and his significant other commit suicide. But he is commensurating with the voices in his head to convince her to die with him. Its a very pretty song, but has a dark meaning.

a dory is the type of fish that dory is in finding nemo, but im sure he is referring to the type of fish, which is a saltwater fish being let loose into a bay, which i dont think saltwater fish can survive (at least tropical..) and an "eddy" is a current in water found in oceans.. but yeah, im pretty sure the song relates to being put into a situation that you dont want to be in etc etc, or at least something along the lines of that