Unsolved Mysteries Lyrics

Lyric discussion by enjoyyourroots 

Cover art for Unsolved Mysteries lyrics by Animal Collective

Oh look at me That sweet boy's plea His mother cried "My child's tied his laces" Why must we move on From such happy lawns Into nostalgia's palm And feed on the traces

We all hop to the dance Or embarrass the parents Who should have knees That go to sleep worrying

That blood in the dark Will attract the sharks Who are not violent We've all got hungry bellies

But where are the still unborn who could look at me with the one eye? who could look at me with no eyes? who could look at me with me in their eyes?

And oh, what's pain? And oh, what's sadness anyway? It's not crying like a child.

And oh, what's graying? And oh, what's ageing anyway? It's not growing in the wild.

I feel like I've just been born When you look at me with your brown eyes When you look at me with your blue eyes And you look at me with the inner eye

And I can understand When holding her hand So womanly I have to go and kiss her

And what a surprise To look in those eyes And find suddenly He is Jack the Ripper Too suddenly, he was Jack the Ripper

Stop crying like a child She stopped crying like a child Jack the Ripper

Just a minor correction needs to be made in your version of the lyrics, enjoyyourroots. It's a matter of eye color in the 7th verse. It goes, "I feel like I've just been born/When you look at me with those GREEN eyes/When you look at me with those black eyes/When you look at me with your dead eyes...etc. That is all.

Sorry, also, those BLUE eyes that you mention are in fact BLACK eyes in the song. Cheers.

And the last line in that verse is "when you look at me with your dead eyes" rather than "when you look at me with the inner eye".