Sleeping Ute Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sullky 

Cover art for Sleeping Ute lyrics by Grizzly Bear

to me it's about addiction .. if I could find peace, if this night bleeds if I could lie still, as that grey hill (then I wouldn't need drugs) but I can't - help myself

so the beginning of the song is about craving to get high then it's like the drugs have kicked in - the song takes a turn into a dreamy phase and suddenly it's calm (drugs kick in) collapsed here on this stone (!) then the dark visions - the light through the smoke (!) dizzy when I woke I know no other way than straight on out that door (and back into the addiction) and I can't help myself

My Interpretation

i like this interpretation. one thing i noticed is the peculiar way the last lines are sung. the way the words are slightly slurred and not enunciation makes it sounds like "and i kill myself," which could related to being suicidal from addiction/the come down