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Artist: Animal Collective
Track: My Girl

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Is it much to admit 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 race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father's grace

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
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Animal Collective - My Girls Lyrics & Meanings
My Girls Lyrics & Meanings: 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 the freshest wave / But to provide, for one who asks, / I will, with heart, on my father's grave / / I don't mean / To seem like I care about material things / Like our social status / I just want / Four walls and adobe slabs / For my girls
Animal Collective - Chocolate Girl Lyrics & Meanings
Chocolate Girl Lyrics & Meanings: In cycle, / I'll leave you around into ocean, / Where grass grows, / And remnants of you with devotion, / My breath's out, / Inhaling a palm tree that's poison, / We look out, / We trace along the house where she was crazy, / And holding tightly, / The sound is dead, / Sing in time, / And life, / When life makes child, your only plight / With life, / When ceilings smiles, they'll sleep a while / In life, / / I'll take you for walks among the patience, / / She had a pretty dad, / But she was growing out of play-school, / Still, she could kick and scream and play, / Until she wanted to, / My little chocolate girl, / Her brother barely out of high school, / There'd been a place where he could scream, / Until he wanted to, / Our fuzzy tabby cat, / And she could bury him in apples, / And curl around a bowl of cotton until she wanted to / / Still she had to speak loud, / Because hearing isn't
Animal Collective - Daily Routine Lyrics & Meanings
Daily Routine Lyrics & Meanings: Just a sec more in my bed / Hope the machine's working right / When it's just precisely tuned / That's how it comes out so nice / / Make sure my kid's got a dress / Keys and coat and shoes and hat / Strap a stroller to my back / Bouncing along every crack / / What good is it to make it fast? / Sing a song to pass the playground / What can I do as traffic pass / Guard my girl from muffler's black gas? / / What can I do to make it fast? / Pop a jump but not too hard / Take a little look up at the ramp / Stop and look at the traffic signal / / Up uneven steps and talking's hard / / Just a sec more in my bed / Hope the machine's working right / When it's just precisely tuned / That's how it comes out so nice / / Make sure my kid's got a dress / Keys and coat and shoes and hat / Strap a stroller to my back / Bouncing along every crack / / What good is it to make it fast? / Sing a song to pass the playground / What can I do as traffic pass / Guard my girl from muffler's black
Animal Collective - Guys Eyes Lyrics & Meanings
Guys Eyes Lyrics & Meanings: I really want to do just what my body wants to / I really want to do just what my body needs to / (If I could just hold all the thoughts in my head and just keep them for you) / I really want to show to my girl that I want her / (If I could just purge all the urges that I have and keep them for you) / I really want to show to my girl that I need her / (I keep it locked right now) / / Need her / / I want to do just what my body needs to / If I want I just might do what my body needs to / (If I could just hold all the thoughts in my head and just keep them for you) / I want to show to my girl that I need her / (If I could just purge all the urges that I have and keep them for you) / (I keep it locked right now) / / / So I used my mind / And I used my hand / It was what I want to do / (I really don't know what to do if my body should want to) / / What I want
Animal Collective - The Softest Voice Lyrics & Meanings
The Softest Voice Lyrics & Meanings: i feel alright / i found a place that fits tight / its feels small / but i won't get sad about it / the softest voice said to me / all through last night / i forget / but i wont feel bad about it / ill stay inside and find a page that sounds right / bombs outside / such small birds laughing at me / / be me / be mine / i might have not have reminded you to feel / (mine to feel) / / be me / be mine / i might have not reminded you to feel / (mine to feel) / / i feel alright / i found a face that fits tight / it feels small / but i won't get sad about it
Animal Collective - Taste Lyrics & Meanings
Taste Lyrics & Meanings: We'll feel sublime. / / Am I really all the things that are outside of me? / Would I complete myself without the things I like around? / Does the music that I make play on my awkward face? / Do you appreciate the subtleties of taste buds? / / My friend and me were having laughs / In a living room filled with arts and crafts / He said
Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle Lyrics & Meanings
The Purple Bottle Lyrics & Meanings: I’ve gotta big big big heart beat, yeah / I think you are the sweetest thing / I wear a coat of feelings and they are loud / I’ve been having good days / Think we are the right age to start our own peculiar ways? / With good friendly homes / You get me freaked freaked freaked on Preakness / I’ve never met a girl that / Likes to drink with horses / Knows her Chinese ballet / I must admit you smell like fruity nuts and good grains / But could you show my purple gaze a thing or two at night? / It’d make me sick sick sick to kiss you and I think that I would vomit / But I’ll do that on Mondays / I don’t have to work away / I like it when I bump you / An accident’s a truth gate / I’m humbled in your pretty lens / I’ll hold you don’t you go / Sometimes you’re quiet and sometimes I’m quiet, Hallelujah! / Sometimes I’m talkative and sometimes you’re not talkative, I know / Well I’d like to spread your perfume around the old apartment / Could we live t
Animal Collective - Golden Gal Lyrics & Meanings
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Animal Collective - Grass Lyrics & Meanings
Grass Lyrics & Meanings: i was walking on feet just like my fathers and my knees were trying to reach you at / your mothers cause my nose was screaming that you smelled like a lover but my hands / were happy to treat you like a brother then / / we do the dance up on the plains / then i shake your shoulders / you push me down into the grains / who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do / / pow pow now now pow pow now now / / ive been into the plants and simple treasures / and i sew patches on pants and i get pleasure / and i dont make particular plans cause they dont matter / if you keep on foolin in bed with my sleeping patterns / / we do the dance up on the plains / then i shake your shoulders / you push me down into the grains / who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do / / Whats with all the changes since the time i was aware its like the apple eating people that we once were arent there / Did they empty out their pockets and debase their younger faces and you must make sure your happy when you l
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat Lyrics & Meanings
Banshee Beat Lyrics & Meanings: Oh, there’ll be time to get by / I get dry after the swimming pool / Oh, there’ll be time to just cry / Or wonder why it didn’t work out / Oh, there’ll be time to fish fry / For letters by yours truly / Yours truly / / Someone in my dictionary's up to no good / I never find the very special words I should / And so I have another party with a water glass / And I sit on all your actions, it’s a birthing game / / And I bet he needs a shower 'cause he’s just like me / But the soldiers in the painting know your secret face / Well your parrot told me just how I can make you smile / 'Gonna let you do your thinkin' if you need a while / / But what I gave you made him get mad / A little bit funny how a thing like that / Could travel through one mouth in through another / And the next thing you know you gotta hear it from your brother / / And the words they sting, like a stump of old wasps / Do you remember when I said,
Animal Collective - Peacebone Lyrics & Meanings
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Animal Collective - Did You See the Words Lyrics & Meanings
Did You See the Words Lyrics & Meanings: Have you seen them? / The words cut open / Your poor intestines / Can't deny / When the inky periods drip from your mailbox and / Blood flies, dip and glide, reach down inside / Grab inside / There's something living in these lines / / And when your newest kisser is peeking / You dress yourself up tonight / Get all tangled up in arms and legs, it's cramped up and / Someone grabs a hold, do you go oh oh oh!? / Should you go home? / There's something starting, don't know why / / And in a house so cozy / Few words are spoken / Let's take our shoes off and unwind / When there's minuets off in the background drowning out / Eyes off, ears off, test the kiss goodnight / A kiss goodnight / Dont keep my loving on my mind / / Because its messy, yes, this mess is mine / Though mine is messy, yours is maybe nine / / Look we've had similar stitches / Look we have similar frowns / Do the elderly couples still / Kiss and hug and / Grab their big wrinkly skin, so tough, wrinkly wr
Animal Collective - April and the Phantom Lyrics & Meanings
April and the Phantom Lyrics & Meanings: When April passes by, she thinks of saying bye / She tells her mother, I am not afraid / Of dying in the bath, or swinging from up here / She asks her mother if she slept with strangers / Phantom was the bright way out / Of all the things her mother said / A whisper to her scream / An autumn in my green / December, hello frost / Her mother would say
Animal Collective - Queen in My Pictures Lyrics & Meanings
Queen in My Pictures Lyrics & Meanings: She used to be a fragile baby in a Golden place / But now it seems her acid visions have come and changed / That face she says / I�m hallucinating / Queen in my pictures / She�s drawing demon clusters on her stucco walls / And hanging all her clothing from her mothers ceiling / I�m hallucinating / Queen in my pictures / And all the handsome fellas used to want to hold her hand / But now she�s finding it hard to find a loving man / I�m hallucinating / Queen in my pictures / I met her recently upon a swollen Nile / She spoke to me with ???? disconnected rhyme now / I am hallucinating / Queen in my pictures /
Animal Collective - Crimson Lyrics & Meanings
Crimson Lyrics & Meanings: Are we safe at home tonight? / The sound moans an eagle crying out but trying not to show he's lost his pride / He looks for somewhere safe to die / And goes alone / His brother trying hard to push him in to give it one more try / Is it OK? / That my instinct wants him to survive / All of the deer just stand and look uptight / Look at the light! That's life or something / / I'm sorry I caught you in my life / I'm hunting yet I don't know why / Eagle on my head tonight flies alone and needs some air before the height / That always seems a bit too high / And just that day / I could crush you with my tires driving down / from the mountains I can't climb / I'm just getting by eating or something / And I'm sorry I caught you in my night / I'm hunting yet I don't know why / / But you backflip In the open / But you backflip in the oh why we he down on our bed and stuff anyway / why we he down on our bed and stuff anyway / / Now my heart is taking over / Now my heart is ta
Animal Collective - Meet the Light Child Lyrics
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Animal Collective - In the Flowers Lyrics & Meanings
In the Flowers Lyrics & Meanings: Met a dancer / Who was high in a field / From her movement / Caught my breath on my way home / Couldn't stop that sprinning force / I felt envy / Everything around seemed to giggle glee / She walked up with a flower and I cared / / Saw the 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 / I walk out in the flowers and 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,
Animal Collective - House Lyrics & Meanings
House Lyrics & Meanings: aka Material Things / / Is it much to admit 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 race / And children cry for the one who has / A real big heart and a father's grace / / 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 the girl
Animal Collective - Blue Noses Lyrics
Like a window. That blew open. Let the sunlight. And fresh air in. From the woodwork [Psych?] the structure. Cold and rigid. And too tame. You burst in like
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Animal Collective - Two Corvettes Lyrics
Going for a drive, won't you come along? Wind in your hair. Picnic in the park. Let's take a ride in my Corvette Your hair will blow in the breeze
Animal Collective - It's You Lyrics & Meanings
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Animal Collective - La Rapet Lyrics & Meanings
La Rapet Lyrics & Meanings: Its what you see in men, does my rugged face cut scars like daggers / Faces on the wall we cant touch you but you move our hobby / reach into the hall step around the feast and find the lobby / open up the door see an angel and youll lose your body / / Picking out a name, stretching out on your sheets / isabelle isabell cant you hear me i cant tell / Is the devil in the room is he hiding in the first drawer / hold me dear hold me dear cant you feel me touch your ear / / Meat was on the Bone, but the children huddled and devoured / Keep them in the home let their minds go where their bikes cant take them / flinching finds me first so ill hide till she is in the basement / when i light the match touching angels shadows on the ceiling / / racing round the room your forehead is on fire / isabelle isabelle their all talking your not well / looking like a ghost doctors shaking their heads / say my name say my name cant you hear me im to blame / / (theyre have been sadder days...) / s
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something Lyrics & Meanings
Turn Into Something Lyrics & Meanings: Oh twisted me I came to eat / At the hall where we danced to some duds / My crowd of pals observed my fingers / And prayed for the lunch I had hung / And cheers rolled out and I thought early / Of tunas in tennisons tubs / But you'll turn into something / You should turn into something / / Oh blissful bleed I came out peeking / And leaked out like a wet clown / My tears rolled down and arms went round / At night I gaped at the gowns / So often green but she held me / My curtains were covered in hounds / / She said / Oh that sweet goodness / Wish you could be here every time / But don't miss me goodness / Because I rub away every time / Then groan at the goodness / But do you mean not every time / Then gone in the goodness / Wish I could stay here every time / / A mistful meet with teachers speaking / They're muffled by buzzes and hums / So headphone tones do float me home / My chair was begging to come / And I'm not bummed some works not fun / Then we crawl in the ca
Animal Collective - Applesauce Lyrics & Meanings
Applesauce Lyrics & Meanings: I eat a mango and I'm feeling like a little honey can roll / Star fruit so simple and I'm feeling like a little honey can roll / How could I feel so-so when I'm feeling like a little honey can roll / Tart but not total and I'm feeling like a little honey can roll / / When I was young I thought fruit was an infinite thing / I'd be sad to wake up and find all of my cherries are charred or they're rotted to ruin / / It seems we all can't last / Oh Pink Lady your days so distinguished are a movement so fluid / So smooth against my palm / Reminisce of the days when they all praised your sweet Red Delicious / / When a farmer picks a good thing (When you think you don't know you don't know what comes next) / Then a kid he picks a good thing (When you think you don't know you don't know what comes next) / Then a chef she makes a good thing (When you think you don't know you don't know what comes next) / Then a mayor eats a good thing (When you think you don't know you don't know what
Animal Collective - Flesh Canoe Lyrics & Meanings
Flesh Canoe Lyrics & Meanings: Young red bird / They're just natural feelings / I can't keep from changing my brains / Bending my wants with my rights / Are my friends still half right / Should I keep them separate from me / It's unclear / Then I get a cold / Can I get a light / It's a certain type of easy pace / That's what we need to make it / / Come in close / I trust you / Your nose dipped in my sweat / It dripped on your beautiful sweater / Kind of nice / Should I really lie with you / I never know / When I'm on my own / Are there more important things to do / Then kiss or sleep today we gotta wake up / / Then I talk to your breath and we / Enjoy the air / And I creep on your chest / To the hut I have / Where I pluck a few notes / On the strands of your hair / And I'm singing to you / What to do if I'd ask you to make funny faces / With me in the mirror of the bathroom / / Know your next / You make me feel alright / Are you just like me / Never gonna pick one kind of fruit / Like a mushed banana on yo
Animal Collective - Ahhh Good Country Lyrics
cause this land of mine beats still the place would rise above us to tear your roots up out the earth and man-made fruits don't ?? This is the Theorizer stanza.
Animal Collective - Bluish Lyrics & Meanings
Bluish Lyrics & Meanings: I'm getting lost in your curls / I'm drawing pictures on your skin, so soft it twirls / I like your looks when you get mean / I know I shouldn't say so but when you claw me like a cat / I'm beaming / / I like the way you squeeze my hand / Pulling me into another dream, a lucid dream / I'm getting lost in your curls / I'm getting crushed out on the things that only I should see / They're not for boys, they're just for me, hurry to talk from far away / / I can see you, you curl your fists and you pull your hair / When we're alone I wanna say / Let's just stay in, no one's here in our apartment, babe / / Put on the dress that I like / It makes me so crazy though I can't say why / Keep on your stockings for a while / Some kind of magic in the way you're lying there / / I'm getting lost in your curls / I'm getting rushed back on a whim, our breaths get wind / Back to the time when we were green / I know we have changed but I still grin 'cause I can't wait to see you / / Back to the t
Animal Collective - Monkey Riches Lyrics
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Animal Collective - Whatddit I Done Lyrics & Meanings
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Animal Collective - Buffalo Tomato Lyrics
Snow was enough. Let them eat it. Little thing that was a good remit. Oh, you're just a genial pomade faker. In the background was our perfect love
Animal Collective - Street Flash Lyrics & Meanings
Street Flash Lyrics & Meanings: does anyone in here get hit / with inside fever? / so bad sometimes it's hard / to move around / they'll show you all the things / you are not doing / instead of helping you they'll / lock you out / and you're whining you shouldn't waste your money / but the couch fibers keep you inside / so i'm so sorry I came in / late this evening / but all the clocks around / the town had died / and all the fruit store's colors / were so bright / with couples smiling / cooking things tonight / and what were all those / troubles on my mind / oh I took a walk / / The room is filled with men and coke / And I don't break 'til midnight shock / Are you feeling warm tonight? / Turn it down? Well, I just might / The room is filled with ancient apes / Where I've been and what I ate / What I asked you drill them out / And ... every little doubt / The room is filled with gummy bears / Electric shavers, ingrown hairs / I keep the curtains high enough / You sleep on cotton, rest in fluff / The r
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My Girls by Animal Collective - Songfacts
My Girls by Animal Collective song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position
Genius Meanings
Animal Collective – My Girls
This is a personal song for Lennox as he talks about his focus on his family. The “girls” are his wife, and his daughter who was born in 2005. The song grows from a synth-speckled
Animal Collective – The Purple Bottle
A love song from Feels, probably written about his now ex-wife
Animal Collective – Daily Routine
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
Animal Collective – Chocolate Girl
[Verse 1] / When sight goes / I'll lead you around the excavation / Where grass grows / And remnants of you in implication / Your breath sounds / Inhaling a porch, in time it's
Animal Collective – Guys Eyes
Guys Eyes recycles Panda’s voice what seems like a billion times until he’s singing over himself in 18-part harmony, finally validating all those once-puzzling Beach Boys
Animal Collective – Peacebone
The first song on Animal Collective’s critically acclaimed and ever loved album Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective – Meet the Light Child
Hey, girl / This leaf I brought for you was ordinary / Girl I yell jump in / We'll set for sailing / Goodbye, oceans / Hey, girl / I brought your records here to make sweet music
Animal Collective – Daily Routine (Live May 30, 2009 Las Vegas, NV)
[Chorus] / Just a sec more in my bed / Hope the machine's working right / When it's just precisely tuned / Is how it comes out so nice / Make sure my kid's got a jacket / Keys and
Animal Collective – The Living Toys
Hey, love / Jimmy Raven's my plastic toy / In his kitchen the baby's all good / He sat in front of / You play for battles, he said / You can call me the spider boy / Took tokens to
Animal Collective – Golden Gal
[Intro] / "Is this about—where your head's at? (Fuck)" / "No, Blanche, she's upset because they keep changing the taste of Coke." / [Verse 1] / Golden Gal on her screen / Some kind
Animal Collective – Peacebone (Demo)
[Intro] / Bonefish / Bonefish / [Verse 1] / A Peacebone got found in the dinosaur wing / Well I'm jumpin' all over, but my views were slowly shrinking / I was a jugular vein in a
Animal Collective – Bluish
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-
Animal Collective – The Purple Bottle (Stevie Wonder Version)
I've gotta big big big heart beat, yeah! / I think you are the sweetest thing / I wear a coat of feelings and they are loud / I've been having good days / Think we are the right
Animal Collective (Ft. Indigo De Souza) – Wish I Knew You
[Verse 1: Avey Tare] / I took some time to find the me / The me that I always needed / And you can't look at what you can't see / I'd like to share my secrets / I want to share my
Animal Collective – April and the Phantom
This is a song about a girl named April who goes outside to escape from her mother. She would go out in nature with the phantom, all the time, like secret lovers. But ultimately
Animal Collective – Flesh Canoe
A song about Avey Tare’s relationship with Panda Bear. No, really. ‘“For instance” says Portner, “to me the song 'Flesh Canoe’ is about my relationship with Noah at a certain time
Animal Collective – The Purple Bottle (Live)
[Intro] / I don't know / I don't really know... / I don't really know... / I got the key to the kingdom / And the devil can't do me no harm / I got they key to the kingdom / And
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