Tiger Mountain Peasant Song Lyrics

Lyric discussion by deadwing89 

Cover art for Tiger Mountain Peasant Song lyrics by Fleet Foxes

I think the narrator, at least in the first verse, is talking about someone dear to him who diead, maybe "Jesse": Through the forest Down to your grave Where the birds wait And the tall grasses wave They do not know you anymore

I feel like this paints a scene where a dear friend's burial site is forgotten, as grass grew back in and birds land there, "They don't know you anymore"

The rest of the lyrics seem to suggest that the narrator thinks he will follow in the same fate as his friend, or, that somehow he is responsible for his friend's death "I don't know what I have done/ I'm turning myself into a demon" and that he is awaiting his punishment/death