Genius Lyrics
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Animal Collective – In the Flowers
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The band commented at length about how their personal lives changed dramatically in the years leading up to and during the recording of Merriweather Post Pavillion. I’m not sure
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Animal Collective – Defeat
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / Lightning crested, read your letter / Looked through pinholes to streets unguarded / Panic seeking solitude / Serpents circle in the fountain / [Verse 2
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Animal Collective – Peacemaker
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Got sold steam it's landed right right / Right rose stop comes up to choke us / Knee jerk to the real jerk / Shades in shadows of a too great land / It's here / In the chaos of
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Animal Collective – Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Now, here you go again / You say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It's only right that you should / Play the way you feel it / But listen
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Animal Collective – Bleed
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The locality of repentance on the Fall Be Kind EP, Bleed shares the brutality of delicate agony that seeps into our minds at different moments. The feeling that an iniquity you’ve
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Animal Collective – Working
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I don't mind working / I'd rather be on hills of sand / But then I would get thirsty to fill a need / I leave my friends / For always being the kind of man / I try and love those
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Animal Collective – Honeycomb
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How many times you say I'm through with this and you mull it over? / How many times you say I'm sticking to this and you pull it over? / (How?) / How many times you say I'm
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Animal Collective – Graze
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Originally known as “Pan Flute Jam” and later “Grace” during Animal Collective’s 2007 tour, the transition between the two sections of the song features a jarring pan flute sample
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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
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“Summertime Clothes” talks about an intense romance during summertime. The surging thrust of distortion and 4-on-the-floor drumkick that propels the song starts with an almost
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Animal Collective – Banshee Beat
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A slow building drone song about getting over a relationship after being cheated on.
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Animal Collective – Bluish
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Bluish is a deeply personal song sung by Avey Tare about being so deeply enchanted with his lover that little mundane details about her and their relationship take on new quasi-
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Animal Collective – Cobwebs
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With your head in a noose / And a grape on a knife / Found you some breakfast / Or adventuring eye / You smell trouble / Well, how should we get some sleep? / When the last of the
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Animal Collective – Fireworks
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The 2nd single off of Animal Collective’s absolutely stunning LP, Strawberry Jam is “postmodern lyrical and poetic experimentation.”
It seems to start with the morning after a
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Animal Collective – Passer-By
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It was my favorite day / Before the movie show / Until the fight broke out / In front of floral scenes / Faces got all bent up / “Beat him real good” she called / I saw a distant
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Animal Collective – The Purple Bottle
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A love song from Feels, probably written about his now ex-wife
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Animal Collective – Who Could Win a Rabbit
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Who Could Win A Rabbit is track 2 on the 2004 album Sung Tongs and was the first single released as a solo effort by the then two-piece band Animal Collective. It was released to
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Animal Collective – Doggy
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Avey Tare wrote this song, apparently about a dog he had as a child that fell out of a tree and died. What a depressing song.
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Animal Collective – Recycling
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Don’t care whether this ship sails or sinks into the meat / Don’t know if a lesson matters less than what’s to eat / While you got it you figure why not launch off of the very
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Animal Collective – Stride Rite
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Deakin makes a real depressing appearance seemingly out of nowhere.
I started writing that song for, um, some, I was playing some solo shows myself in, like, 2018, 2019, and I
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Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma
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[Verse 1] / When all this mess will get me down I will depart from Chinatown / Weaving in and out of line, the sidewalk's full of merchandise / My nervous tick has got to quit, my
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Animal Collective – Screens
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If I could take my eyes away, might not get so dry now / If I could keep my hands away, might not feel so dried out / And when I would feel I'd know that it is real / I'd like to
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Animal Collective – Rosie Oh
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This song is full of symbolism, in classic Panda style. It follows the life of a woman, Rosie, through all the changes and transitions, and we watch as he tries to do the right
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Animal Collective – Vertical
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[Intro] / Mountains in Kauai / Make me feel so lowly / Cower at their power / Vertical I like / Dizzy under buildings / Bending like their willing / Is it what I'm seeing
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Animal Collective – Walker
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[Verse 1: Panda Bear] / Go and take a load off / Put the baggage down / Going where the ears won't deceive / [Verse 2: Panda Bear] / I'm ready for the take off / Just been standing
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Animal Collective – Unsolved Mysteries
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"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
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Animal Collective – Slippi
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I learned a lot about you in a day at school / You gotta think about the energy / And tell us that you try to (conclude) your day at school / I learned a lot about you in a day at
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Animal Collective – Winter Wonder Land
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[Verse 1] / Mold of the fawn / I have been frozen here for days / With headlights reflecting in my face / I must be cold on your lawn / But inside I'm okay / I can live without
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Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
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For Reverend Green was lauded as one of the songs that demonstrated Avey Tare’s growth as a vocalist, as seen in Pitchfork. However, not many people have elaborated on the meaning
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Animal Collective – Father Time
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Open up your locket / Does solidarity breed from a good foundation? / Things speed out of date now / You can be falling and when you're up it's blown up / With all new buildings
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Animal Collective – Cherokee
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Late for its arrival / My mind's begun to find / Early peculiarities of how it defines time / And there are turkeys out the window / That I appreciate / There’s plastic like a
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Animal Collective – Daily Routine
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The oblong architecture of Daily Routine hearkens back to the band’s less stable earlier days, as it moves appealingly from an awkward organ-based mid-tempo number to a long
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