Also Frightened (Lyrics) -Animal Collective

ALSO FRIGHTENED

Ghosts came crowding around and then
I woke, you slept there on your side
From our window, two lanterns draw signs on the night
And light our two shadows I watch with delight
Will I want them to be who they will be
Or to be more like their dad

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

The influence is relative
Maybe I should let them
Maybe we should let them
And I have a question:

Are you also frightened?

And no one should call you a dreamer

My Girls (Lyrics) -Animal Collective

MY GIRLS

There isn't much that I feel I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious wait
And to provide the man you ask
I will, with heart, on my father's grave

I don't mean
To seem like I care about material things
Like a social status
I just want
Four walls and adobe slabs
For my girls

In The Flowers (Lyrics) -Animal Collective

IN THE FLOWERS

Met a dancer
Who was high in a field
From her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that spinning force
I felt in me
Everything around seemed to giggle glee
She walked up with a flower and I cared


Got a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats of record rhythms
But I'm always away for weeks
That pass slow my
Mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who'll dance despite anything
Oh while out in the flowers I feel better

If I could just leave my body for the night

Then we could be dancing
No more missing you while I'm gone
There we could be dancing
And you'd smile and say, "I like this song"
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing's wrong
And I wouldn't feel so selfish
I won't be this way very long

To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time

While we were dancing
Early hours
Drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane
Now I'm gone
I left flowers for you there

Shhh
You're a dancer
I'm a dancer

Animal Collective [Merriweather Post Pavilion] Lyrics

This is one of the best albums I have ever come across.

This is the track listing:

01. In The Flowers[5:22]
02. My Girls[5:41]
03. Also Frightened[5:14]
04. Summertime Clothes[4:30]
05. Daily Routine[5:46]
06. Bluish[5:14]
07. Guy's Eyes[4:31]
08. Taste[3:53]
09. Lion In A Coma[4:12][LYRICS MISSING]
10. No More Runnin'[4:23]
11. Brothersport[5:59]
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Heima (Home) [2009!]..?

H E I M A

Walking down on the foggy, frosted roads of desolation after a night of ecstasy, bewilderment, alienation, heartbreak and adrenaline where does one go to rest the destruction? Where is home? The alcohol within me leads me the wrong way. The flashing lights of the highway look promising, cars flying down, driven by the wasted, driving on the ice and crashing into the wasteland, the wreckage of a generation forgotten. I turn around reluctantly and head home, or at least where I think it is. I’ll take the shorter way. But the guardians are sleeping, the hounds wake up to my hurried movements and they have bigger teeth than me. The dogs are barking away from the highway as I try to scale the fence to get home, they sense what is inside me, an impure feeling of greed, something is not right within, and the street dogs have found it, they reject me with foaming mouths and ferocious growls. I choose flight. I’ll have to go all the way around, the longer way.
I could crash any moment. The pavements look inviting and the alleys call out to me. What is the chance that I will wake up in the morning if I collapse here? The ill-lit street is nearly deserted, I walk as fast as I can, there are a few people at odd corners, draped in a shawl and waiting. Waiting for god knows what at one-thirty in the morning. But there is an unmistakable look of expectation and hope in their eyes as they look suspiciously at me. Maybe I shouldn’t have left, I am on the edge of my conscious horizon and a few more minutes at the party would have thrown me over. But I want to stay on the edge, from the edge you can see so much more. I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the centre. Kurt Vonnegut said that. God rest his soul. A good night? Perhaps, if I could just leave my confused fucking problems and issues that make no sense to me but still pull me back into depression. A rotten start to the year nonetheless. There was a better start to the year last time and the year turned out to be rotten. This time a rotten start to a great year? I fucking hope so.

Dylan

God said, "Let there be light, and there was Dylan".




So this is going to be my first post in a long, long time and since I cant be bothered to write something on a regular basis, I will be quoting Dylan lyrics everyday (hopefully everyday) and maybe my interpretation and what they mean to me.

So for today,

5th October, 2008.

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it"

-Song: Visions Of Johanna

Album: Blonde On Blonde

The picture on the top is the closest thing I could find on the internet that matched the imagery that manifests in my mind when I hear those lyrics. Visions Of Johanna is probably Bob's greatest song and some of the imagery that it sparks is just amazingly vibrant and celestial.

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

iPod Answers

1. Put iPod on shuffle.
2. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
3. You must put that song name down. no matter how ridiculous it sounds
4. Add any comments in brackets

1. When someone asks 'is this okay', you say:
Everybody Needs Love-Slim Smith

2.What does the next year have in store for you?
Holiday-Green Day
(...NOT!!)

3.What does your love life look like?
The Rainbow-Apples In Stereo
(Hahaha...the iPod doesn't know very much)

4.How would you describe yourself?
Loyalty-D12
(I should hope so)

5.What is your life's purpose?
Stop Frontin'-KRS-One
(That's not a bad purpose)

6.What's your favourite saying?
If I had A Million Dollars-Eminem
(Wow...Bang on)

7.What do you look for in a girl?
Smooth Jazz Cafe-Ambient Basia & Spyro Gyra

8.What is your favourite place?
A Hard Day's Night-The Beatles
(Well not really...)

9.What do your friends think of you?
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea-Modest Mouse

10. What do you think of your friends?
Imagine-John Lennon


11. What do you think of the person you like?
Need Your Love So Bad-Fleetwood Mac

12. What do you think of your parents?
Things We Said Today-The Beatles

13.What do you think about very often?
Vertigo-U2
(Not really but it does scare me)

14. How do you feel today?
Monkey Man-Toots And The Maytals
(Feel like that everyday :p)

15. How will you die?
Get Higher-Black Grape
(Die while getting higher or get higher while dying?)

16. What is 2+2?
It Ain't Me, Babe-Bob Dylan
(Well that's a relief..)

17. What is your life story?
Spiritual Whp-Jah Lloyd
(Hmm...)

18. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Ms. Jackson-Outkast
(Haha)

19. What song will be played at your funeral?
Iron Lion Zion-Bob Marley
(I was hoping something for quainter...)

20. What is your main hobby?
You Can't Do That-The Beatles
(That's right...you can never do my hobby)

21. What is your biggest fear?
Strange Little Girl-Stealers Wheel
(Its true...I rather not talk about it...)

22.What is your biggest secret?
I'm Going Home-Ten Years After

23. What is your favourite saying?
A Little Bit Later On-Ella Fitzgerald
(Procrastination...)

24. Where would you go on a first date?
Remember(Walking In The Sand)-The Shangri-Las
(I'm confused...would we remember walking in the sand on the first date or actually walk on the sand?)

25.What do you say when life gets hard?
Everything In Its Right Place-Radiohead
(Well then why is getting so tough?)

26.What's the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?
St. Louis Blues-Louis Armstrong

27.What is your drug of choice?
In My Heart-Moby
(My blood is my drug)

28.What do you want to be when you grow up?
King Of New York-Fun Lovin' Criminals
(Wow...that would be nice)

29.What does the next year have in store for you?
O Green World-The Gorillaz
(Well I guess that spells doom for Global Warming)

30. What is your state of mind at the moment?
Come On(Let The Good Times Roll)-Jimi Hendrix
(Not really but okay..)

31. What kind of person are you?
Lebanese Blonde-Thievery Corporation
(Hmm...Hahaha..)

32. What are you going to do after this?
Come Fly With Me-Frank Sinatra
(Who doesn't love flying with Sinatra?)

33.What are you going to do tomorrow?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds-The Beatles
(I'm going to do Lucy in the sky with diamonds? HAHA)

34.Where do you think your life is taking you?
Where I'm From-The Game
(Back to where I belong, eh?)

35.What are you going to post this as?
Love Minus Zero/No Limit-Bob Dylan
(What a song..Hail Dylan)