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Sleeping in the Beetle Bug Lyrics

Sleeping in the beetle bug
With a hundred pounds of air in my heart
Don't think that I'm able to sympathize
I'm happier to see it gone
Floating above your house like a penguin
Dropping cherries from my mouth
Tapping the walnuts
And the shadows out of a dreaming
Pair of brown-eyed ghosts

In each of your eyes, I saw it's spring
Where every mouth wakes up to a smile and a yawn
Grass is long and laughs when the wind jumps through it

It must have started with that stick in the mud
That there's where clouds are born
Clouds can't stay where they are born
Winds push them so far from home
The sound of your laughter
Tiptoeing across the floor
Makes the deepest of red umbrellas
Able to inflate my smile

In each of your eyes, I saw it's spring
Where every mouth wakes up to a smile and a yawn
Grass is long and laughs when the wind jumps through it
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Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

ITS SO EASY TO LOVE MYSELF THAT I CAN LIE TO YOU BUT I CANT!

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

I love this. But what does it mean? Until I find out, I can only enjoy the music.

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

I have to agree with ggaaoo. I love the music in this song, but I can't really tell what it means.

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

I love how they have a song for every occasion. Most of the song doesn't make sense, but I can't help but be reminded of the time that my friends and I went to the School of Americas protest in Georgia and were incapable of pitching a tent, so all three of us slept in my beetle bug. Lana slept on the dashboard.

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

I think it's about sleeping in the beetle bug because the house flooded.

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

for the longest time this whole song sounded like complete gobbledygook. just looking at it now i randomly thought, maybe it's about him, and possibly someone else, dying? "happier to see it's gone" as in their life..."floating above your house" like a ghost would..."pair of brown eyed ghosts" could be him and whoever he's with, "tapping the shadows out" of them could be their uncertainties from their life or something..."clouds can't stay where they are born, winds push them so far from home" might refer to having to move on to the afterlife. or, i could be completely wrong about all of it.

Cover art for Sleeping in the Beetle Bug lyrics by of Montreal

how about, the lyrics are meaningless, and its an amazing melody. just a theory guys.

 
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