I came down over
the sleepy mountains where
our wide toes plunged into
the weeping shale to tear our
skin up off from the bottom
leaves our ankles bare
don’t just wander back and forth
and leave it
build it into pinnacles and shrines of some
some ghastly predicament of mine you’ll find
leaves us plastered
to a bed of hairs with
me all coiled up near the bottom
with my chest unbeared
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low watch
fluent sea men rig their rudders so they’ll
graze it with their wind arrows
tis in the fathoms that
they brush below
oh, my dreams,
come back to me, back to me
oh my wrinkles,
build on me, build on me
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
the sleepy mountains where
our wide toes plunged into
the weeping shale to tear our
skin up off from the bottom
leaves our ankles bare
don’t just wander back and forth
and leave it
build it into pinnacles and shrines of some
some ghastly predicament of mine you’ll find
leaves us plastered
to a bed of hairs with
me all coiled up near the bottom
with my chest unbeared
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low watch
fluent sea men rig their rudders so they’ll
graze it with their wind arrows
tis in the fathoms that
they brush below
oh, my dreams,
come back to me, back to me
oh my wrinkles,
build on me, build on me
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low
gather up it’s harm
in gauze with grateful arms
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VERBATIM FROM THE VINYL RECORD SLEEVE:
i came down over the sleepy mountains where our wide toes plunged into the weeping shale to tear our skin up off from the bottom leaves our ankles bare don't just wander back and forth and leave it
build it into pinnacles and shrines of some some ghastly predicament of mine you'll find leaves us plastered to a bed of hairs with me all coiled up near the bottom with my chest unbeared
oh but dear the sky is low gather up its harm in gauze with grateful arms
oh but dear the sky is low watch fluent sea men rig their rudders so they'll graze it with their wind arrows tis in the fathoms that they brush below
that we lie with our eyes and sides in tow tis in this warm and monious water that i flow and grow and sow i'm hear the birds wings squeak salt salt salt and the lemons drop from the spaces in their flings
oh my dreams come back to me oh my wrinkles build on me
Don't beat me up too bad here, but I read a blurb about them somewhere, it seems I-Tunes, but I can't be sure, and the blurb referred to them as 'synth pop' and what I thought was interesting, 'witch pop'. But then I got to thinking. Maybe they're Wiccan. Maybe when they're talking about the sky being low, they're simply saying there's fog out. hehe They seem to be referring to skin and ankles being bare etc., you know, out in the woods, and mountains, and tree hugging type stuff...that's rather characteristic with Wiccan rituals.The song seems to have a ritualistic gathering sort of feel to it. Sometimes you gotta look past just the words. Just a thought...
@LunaRedcoat Actually, I found out a lot about them, that I don't read on wikipedia, by listening to them on a podcast. They performed live and in between each song, they were interviewed. The chick came in and said she was Wiccan and the guy follows Buddhism.
To me, this is about embracing and learning from the hard times in your life.
"our wide toes plunged into the weeping shale to tear our skin up off from the bottom leaves our ankles bare"
"don't just wander back and forth and leave it"
"build it into pinnacles and shrines of some some ghastly predicament of mine you'll find"
"oh but dear the sky is low gather up its harm in gauze with grateful arms"
"oh my dreams come back to me"
"oh my wrinkles build on me"
This could mean a number of things, so I'm not gonna try to analyze it. This is such an awesome song, I love it!
I think this song is about risk and trust and vurnarability
I believe this is about the turbulence of an unplanned pregnancy and embracing it positively.
The first part seems like it speaks of the initial realization. Getting up after conceiving, from the mountains created among sheets and bodies in bed. Only to be halted by the reality of conception. Stopping their movement - injured feet. Open toes - post sexual ecstasy.
Anxiety, pacing back & forth. Constructively make the problem something to find pride in (shrines) which among it you'll find her predicament... Pregnancy.
The chorus presents that there is an issue but to wrap the harm in gauze, much like a newborn in a blanket. And as most of the lyrics are beautiful metaphors the blanket/gauze alludes to the actual birth itself, which heals the 'wound' of the initial worry. Grateful arms - resulted transcendence/responsibility.
The part about the sea men, seems to me, like an analogy of the biological process inside her. Fluids racing her body - conception. It is in their "fathoms", journey through her body that they "brush below".
I could be wildly off but that was my first gathering from the first read. Either way, gorgeous lyrics .
"oh but dear" "in gauze with grateful arms"
Oh.
I thought Obedear was someone's name, and the other line was "in God's ungrateful arms".