Feathers and Down Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Apollo231 

Cover art for Feathers and Down lyrics by Cardigans, The

Now you're drowning me

with your talk of 4-leaf clovers you turn to rocks and omen to beat the ambient harm that is bruising your karma

It means that the guy is talking too much about luck and good fortune, he is turning to charms and good luck objects to fix his bad karma and everything that does him harm.

The idea is that he is blaming other things for his own mistakes, and this is drowning her, making her hopeless because he doesn't' see that its his doing that is making bad things happen to him