 Genius Lyrics
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Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
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[Verse 1] / It's a little bit magic / Like a river of morning geese / In the new warm mountain / Where the stone face forms and speaks / [Chorus] / I believe in you / Even when you
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Big Thief – Masterpiece
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The first single form 2016’s album of the same name, Masterpiece is a powerful, uptempo song about the passing of time, and of lives. On one level it reminisces of times past
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Big Thief – Contact
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Jodi / Please turn the pages for me / You seem so free / You know I'm barely, barely / Wrap me in silk / I want to drink your milk / You hold the key / You know I'm barely, barely
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Big Thief – Change
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The track was previewed multiple times by Lenker via impromptu Instagram Live shows in 2021, before receiving its full band debut on 21 August 2021 at Garden Amphitheatre
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Big Thief – Shark Smile
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[Verse 1] / She was a shark smile in a yellow van / She came around and I stole her glance / In my youth, a vampire / Evelyn shone quiet as roses sting / It came over me at a bad
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Big Thief – UFOF
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Adrianne Lenker has spoken about how U.F.O.F symbolizes the other, those things outside of ourselves, those things beyond our understanding. The album’s title, adds ‘Friend’ to ‘
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Big Thief – The Only Place
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[Verse 1] / What if all the worlds in space / Would melt into one single place / And intertwine the human race / With other kinds? / The atom is an empty vase / A vehicle to know
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Big Thief – Little Things
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Released in August 2021, ‘Little Things’ is a track that expresses complete and utter infatuation with a romantic partner. The sheer power of these feelings consistently makes the
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Big Thief – Mythological Beauty
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This was the first single from Big Thief’s sophomore album, Capacity. The song is a meditation on the sacrifices, both literal and emotional, young parents are forced to take on.
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Big Thief – Mary
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‘Mary’ was written by Adrianne Lenker in the home which inspired the sentiment of the lyrics. In an interview with NPR, Lenker spoke about the inspiration for the song.
She first
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Big Thief – Not
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On 13 August 2019, Big Thief announced that they would release their second album of the year, Two Hands, as a follow up to U.F.O.F. (which was released in May). “Not” was
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Big Thief – Red Moon
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[Verse 1] / Red moon rising like a fire in me / So many questions, she asks them all to me / I have to answer most curiously / Scarlet angel, I am too small to see / Earn, earn
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Big Thief – Replaced
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[Verse 1] / Move along through Santa Fe / And make a new beginning / What's that you were starting to say? / Or have you forgotten? / [Chorus] / 'Cause, 'cause the unlit moon would
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Big Thief – Parallels
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[Verse 1] / Don't I make you feel alive? / Don't I give you a good home? / In a way I know you're always by my side / But today I think I've always been a long way / [Chorus] / One
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Big Thief – Real Love
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[Verse 1] / Having a bad week? / Let me touch your cheek / I will always love you / [Verse 2] / Having your face hit / Having your lip split / By the one who loves you / [Chorus
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Big Thief – Century
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[Verse 1] / Dogs eyes in the headlights of the driveway / Cool autumn rain / Bugs died on your windshield on the freeway / Wonder if you'll be the same / Centuries flower / [Chorus
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Big Thief – Time Escaping
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On 16 November 2021, “Time Escaping” was released alongside the announcement of Big Thief’s fifth album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. The song was first debuted live
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Big Thief – Certainty
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[Verse 1] / Name on the line, last request / Pull the car over to find some rest / Saying, "I love you" / Need to lie here, need to leave / Living in the debt of make-believe
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Big Thief – Animals
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The animals are wonderful / Such a vision in the sun, how they lay low / I catch my breath and count my dough / And I only live to run and I need to go / You and I were born and I'
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Big Thief – Capacity
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I wrote the song “Capacity” after a dream. I woke up at my sister’s house in the woods and basically just wrote down the dream. Every verse is a part of the dream. I took the word
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Big Thief – Cattails
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[Verse 1] / Caroline, Caroline / I never could leave you to struggle / Hold the line, hold the line / I’ll be there on the double / In time, in time / Everyone does see trouble / [
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Big Thief – Betsy
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[Verse 1] / Driving through the night / Rings of crystal, crystal light / Every gulp of the warm suburb air / Betsy's auburn, auburn hair / [Refrain] / Ooh, ooh / [Verse 2] / Drive
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Big Thief – Dandelion
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He's old like the raspberry cold / Coming in the window / His gloom room / Flowers blooming out like armadillos / He looks to the left at the yellow lines / Moving with the traffic
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Big Thief – Vampire Empire
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[Verse 1] / Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed / The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead / I'm not quiet, you've been quiet, just receiving what you said / Reeling
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Big Thief – Vegas
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Holed up in Vegas for only one week / And I caught you tongue and cheek by the side of the road / Of an automobile expo / Turned up the volume and you started to weep / And I
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Big Thief – Blurred View
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[Verse 1] / I am the magazine, the blue screen / The big hand moving past the last thing / I turn for you, turn for you / Turn for you, turn for you / [Verse 2] / I am the private
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Big Thief – Shoulders
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“Shoulders” had become a live favorite long before it was announced that the song would appear on Big Thief’s fourth album Two Hands. A studio recording of this song was highly
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Big Thief – Strange
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[Verse 1] / Doesn't it seem strange / Searching for a hidden page / The fairy's cage / Coming of true age / Leave the costume on the stage / The silkworm's rage / Iridescent thread
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Big Thief – Objects
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Old volcanoes melting / Love is overwhelming / Letting your insides out / Blind altercation / Open invitation / Breaking your guard down / Leaving the familiar / Air is getting
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Big Thief – Wolf
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Hello to the morning moon / Woke up as you left the room / Pillow still warm / Scent like meadow grass / Has the feeling come to pass? / Has the feeling come to stay? / What can we
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Big Thief – Happiness
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[Verse 1] / Pull over / Look at mercury / Just believing / In silence / With your mother / Like a true beginner / [Refrain] / Happiness / [Verse 2] / The silver / The gradual decay
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Big Thief – Coma
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This song describes a woman whose mother was put into a coma by an unspecified man (maybe her husband, the narrator’s father?). However, her ailment is described as a “protective
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Big Thief – Haley
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Just like that, she is / I mean / We are, we are gone for good / For closing my eye / Too soon / Missed the room / Old magpie / It just passed me through / [Chorus] / Oh, when it
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Big Thief – Sparrow
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[Verse 1] / Wrapped in the wings of a sparrow / Beak is as sharp as an arrow / Sings in a whispering whistle / Sleeps in the ivy and thistle / Owls out swooping and howling / Deep
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Big Thief – Pretty Things
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In an interview with Stereogum, Lenker says:
“Well the main thing that I’ll say without ruining the song is that the chorus is something that I like to focus on as a mantra. “
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Big Thief – Promise Is a Pendulum
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[Verse 1] / I could never build the ether or the grass overgrown / I could never build the river with a mouth full of foam / I could never build the winter with her cold tears of
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Big Thief – Orange
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[Verse 1] / Orange is the color of my love / Fragile orange wind in the garden / Fragile means that I can hear her flesh / Crying little rivers in her forearm / Fragile is that I
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Big Thief – Spud Infinity
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[Chorus] / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take / To free the celestial body? / [Verse 1] / From way up there, it looks so small / From way down
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Big Thief – No Reason
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[Verse 1] / Been pulling through / Since the last time I touched you / Making due with an internet signal / Calling for the delivery to the front door / [Chorus] / There is no
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Big Thief – Jenni
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[Verse 1] / Too hot to breathe / Too hot to breathe / Too hot to breathe / [Chorus] / Jenni's in my room / Jenni's in my room / Jenni's in my room / [Verse 2] / Her skin so bare
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Big Thief – Blue Lightning
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[Intro] / One / One, two, one, two / [Verse 1] / Blue lightning was an autograph signing up the sky / To the question that I had to ask, she only answered, "Why?" / Angelia took
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Big Thief – Forgotten Eyes
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“Forgotten Eyes,” is the second track on Big Thief’s fourth album, Two Hands. It was released on October 2nd, 2019, as the second single from the album, following “Not”.
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Big Thief – Watering
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This song depicts a woman who is being stalked. It is told mostly from her perspective, with the exception of the last verse and the following refrain, which are narrated by the
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Big Thief – Flower of Blood
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[Verse 1] / Give me some time on Earth to know you / Help me unearth the map and show you / Thinking of her, thinking of him, want to? / [Chorus] / When you touch me / [Verse 2
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