Lyrics for Banshee Beat as interpreted by FuneralCatering

Banshee Beat Lyrics
There'll be time to get by to get dry after the swimming pool
There'll be time to just cry i wonder why it didnt work out
Therell 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
So I have another party with a water glass
and I sit on all your actions its a birthing game
and I'll bet he needs a shower cause hes just like me
and 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 thinking if you need awhile
but what I gave you made him get mad
A little bit funny how a thing like that
Could travel from 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
Remember when I said go throw the rock in there
and we ran through the woods to our good house
You forgot about the things that he could say like
I dont think that I like you anymore
Well I found new feelings at the feeling store
and I cant find you at our kissing place
and im scared of those new pair of eyes you have

So I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool
Hop a fence, leave the street and wet my feet I'll find a swimming pool
Cause when I'm snuffed out I doubt I'll find a swimming pool
Hop a fence, leave the street and wet my feet I'll find a swimming pool

But I don't wish that I was dead
A very old friend of mine once said
that either way you look at it you have your fits
I have my fits but feeling is good
confusions not a kiddney stone in my brain
but if were miscommunicating do we feel the same?
Then either way you look at it you have your fits
I have my fits but feeling is good

You gotta give a little you gotta get a little bit

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FiberOpticJesus
11-05-2005

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I can't believe no one has commented on this amazing song. It is definitely the quintessential AC song. It peaks like a fine orgasm.

Edited by evanreyes on April 28 2007, at 12:39AM



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alec-eiffel
12-05-2005

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Music at its finest, if not a little bit dark for AC

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alec-eiffel
12-05-2005

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Music at its finest, if not a little bit dark for AC

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alec-eiffel
12-05-2005

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Music at its finest, if not a little bit dark for AC

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alec-eiffel
12-05-2005

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Music at its finest, if not a little bit dark for AC

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birdablaze
01-12-2006

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I think this is about losing a love but not giving up on feelins like everyone tends to do. Like there is still hope so don't become numb. Or I'm wrong.

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couldBanyone
01-19-2006

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This is like a confused love through the eyes of childhood. Complete with "kissing places" and immature vandalism "throw the rock in there." Animal Collective always tend to be a little bit cryptic because the lyrics are strange, but nothing is strange about the unbridled joy of that one glorious line "i duck out/ and go down to find the swimming/ pooooooool" The howl on "pool" sends shivers up my spine.

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doloreaesthetic
02-11-2006

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The ultimate summer song.

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couldBanyone
02-17-2006

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After some additional listens I thought this might be interesting to add. The "wet YOUR feet" (this is the real lyric) represents the young boy deserting his love with her scary "new pair of eyes" and running to the swimming pool, or the one place he feels happy. Going back to the wet your feet, I believe this refers to the tears that she sheds for his leaving that fall on her feet and "wet" her shoes.

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fate40124
03-18-2006

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It is like the end of a very rough relationship, and the pool is symbolic of starting over, and preparing oneself to be able to love again.
But one doesn't regret that anything happened, even is glad in a sense it did, so one can learn.

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loafer
04-30-2006

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I love this tune so much

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ach105
05-11-2006

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what does snuffed out mean?

coked out?

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ach105
05-11-2006

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what does snuffed out mean?

coked out?

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kylethelion
05-17-2006

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It means killed. Hence the lines "But I don't wish that I was dead."

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ach105
05-18-2006

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ooohhh good call...i didnt even realize! thanks

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sailtothemoon
07-11-2006

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very accurate lyrics - only error i found (apart from little 'ands' and 'thens' at the start of lines is that his friend is very LITTLE, not OLD.
it goes: But I don't wish that I was dead
A very little friend of mine once said

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sailtothemoon
07-11-2006

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he is perhaps talking about a conscience sitting on his shoulder? a tiny voice in his head?

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Sidetrak
09-13-2006

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no, it says old friend, not little, its very easy to hear here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A6445974


"then either way you look at it you have your fits
I have my fits but feeling is good"

im thinking this means that even though there are some low times, love and feeling for someone is still worth it

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moochy
10-22-2006

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I agree with what a lot of people say about this being love through the eyes of a child.
To me It seems that in the first verse its as if the two lovers have shared a sexual experience, and the girls brother has found out about it and told her to not see him again or something to the same effect, and..."The words they sting like a stump of old wasps"

however, after hearing this from her brother, the girl decides she has to move on and in doing so loses some of her innocence which worries the boy...
"...and I cant find you at our kissing place
and im scared of those new pair of eyes you have"

Then as the song progresses he realises that he doesn't like the way the girl has become and decides that he has to move on..."So I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool"

Just my thoughts anyway.

it kind of reminds me of that movie Lost & Delirious.

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cptsoif
10-27-2006

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Could this be the same brother from "The Purple Bottle"???

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couldBanyone
11-04-2006

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There is also a sense of carpe diem. Note the atheistic pessimism of the line "So I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool" and the following line "Cause when I'm snuffed out I doubt I'll find a swimming pool."

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mightymuggle
03-06-2007

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this is the most special band I have ever heard. You know I don't really understand all the lyrics at all, but its fine trying to decipher them. But the real beauty is in the album title; Feels. I can't explain how much that word means to me now.

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heyheyhey111
03-10-2007

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I don't understand -- in the album version, his voice sounds amazing with it's softness... but when he sings this song live in the link provided on this page, it sounds terrible because he's pretty much speaking the words. It's not that hard to whisper into the mic... nevertheless, haunting song with an excellent mix.

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snare and delay?
04-01-2007

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does it not sound like he's saying all hail the time at the intro to the song? either way, amazing piece of music. It makes my life a little better

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peacenlove1239
04-08-2007

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i think ita bout a relationship on hold.. and there's a third person in the picture also, like an ex girlfriend that u still talk to and have feelings for but they have a new boyfriend, but the relationship is not completely over and you're both talking to other people about it, and its getting back to the two

i like this

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