Fleet Foxes Lyric Quotes

So much of songwriting hinges on finding new, defamiliarizing ways to express very familiar sentiments, in hopes of being able to reach ears that may be inoculated to true but tired clichés.

Who stole the life from you? Who turned you so against you?

Night ended the fight, but the song remained And so I headed to the wall Turned tail to call to the new domain As if in the sight of sea, you're suddenly free But it's all the same Oh, but I can hear you, loud in the center Aren't we made to be crowded together, like leaves??

Life unfolds in pools of gold I am only owed this shape if I make a line to hold To he held within one's self is deathlike, oh I know

I was a child in the ivy then I never knew you, you knew me Not like you knew me Off on the other ocean, now All is behind you, all is sea

The speakers are not merely delivering abstract notions of life; they move among particular forests at particular times of the day and year.