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Four Cypresses Lyrics

Instead of moving
You stared into the wall
Tangled up in a pile
It's early
Make no sound
Living in a pile
It's chaos but it works
Planes flying overhead so early
Dreadful sound

Four cypresses seen from a neighbor's yard
No memory
A future, drawing down
Planes flying overhead so early
Make no sound

Four cypresses torn from the roadside
Great thundering noise from the hillside
Some thousands of years built it up
Some crumbling form to be torn down

Living in a pile
Tangled in a pile
It's chaos but it works
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mellow_harsher On Aug 18, 2017
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Cover art for Four Cypresses lyrics by Grizzly Bear

Society is complete bullshit, and this song can see through it. Instead of living in a more natural and primitive state, and be free as individuals, we choose to cooperate, living in a pile. Is chaos but it works. And suddenly you find yourself living in a complete artificial state, with just four cypresses seen from the neighbor yard, and the dreadful sound of airplanes flying through your generic artificial simple life. Some crumbling form to be torn down. Let's be free!

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