Lyric discussion by marlenflowers 

Cover art for Also Frightened lyrics by Animal Collective

Face your body into the dark and you can't sweat once you've swung by the hem Let them crawl into the logs Let damn groun[gings???] the hue of a pen Exciting and screaming, their voices go wild And rise with the birds mating up in the pines Down to puddles that breathe covered by leaves With mud they'll make prints on their backs

Will it just be like they're dreaming? Will it be just like I'm dreaming? Will it just be like they're dreaming? Will it be just like I'm dreaming?

If they're awake till the dawn Well we won't fret that they don't have our eyes The ghost came crawling around And when I woke you slept there on your side From our window to lanterns Go signs on the night And light up two shadows that watch with delight Well, I want them to be who they will be Ooh to be more like their dad

Will it just be like they're dreaming? Will it be just like I'm dreaming? Will it just be like they're dreaming? Will it be just like I'm dreaming?

When influence is threatened Maybe I should let them Maybe we should let them And I have a question:

ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED? ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?

Won't she call you a dreamer? No one should call you a dreamer? No one should call you a dreamer? No one should call you a dreamer?

Now

and some of that i can't catch

help?

My Interpretation

haha. I spent 20 mins figuring out those exact lyrics...and another 10 on the 4th line...only to find someone else had already posted them...

I can't decipher it...

Line 4 is written here as: "Let damn groun[gings???] the hue of a pen."

But every time I listen to this song, I hear: "Let Dan Brown change the hue of their pants."

Makes a lot more sense.