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Met a dancer who was high in a field from her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that spinning force
I felt envy
Everything around seemed to giggle
You are up with the flower and I cared
Found a dancer
who gets wild to the beats of record rhythm
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 walked 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, "I like this song"
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing's wrong
And I wouldn't feel so selfish
I won't be this way very long
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
While we were dancing
Early hours drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane, now I'm gone
I left flowers for you there
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that spinning force
I felt envy
Everything around seemed to giggle
You are up with the flower and I cared
Found a dancer
who gets wild to the beats of record rhythm
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 walked 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, "I like this song"
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing's wrong
And I wouldn't feel so selfish
I won't be this way very long
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
While we were dancing
Early hours drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane, now I'm gone
I left flowers for you there
Lyrics submitted by Roofle, edited by tuscan3000
In the Flowers Lyrics as written by Brian Ross Weitz Noah Benjamin Lennox
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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Great version of a great song,
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that explosion at 2:30 is fucking epic
seconded.
again.
Agreed.
would it be a bit cliche to agree?? :)
and again :]
one more
another
I can't not eighth this.
woohoo 9th!
i totally disagree<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> nahhh<br /> kidding :)
11 is heaven, and the part is amazing!
it jumps out of me & my chest expands four times its size.
100% amazing!
<333333333333
If I could just leave my body for the night<br /> <br /> P.S. Can't wait to see em live I hope they play this song. I'll settle for Banshee Beat also though >.>
gotta agree.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I was all like- cheesy<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> but this album's awesome
gives me the chills. everytime
animal collective has to be one of the greatest bands of our time, no one matches the intracy of their sound/ lyrics<br />
i lost count, but i'm going to have to agree as well :)
i had a dream last night...and after a while i realized that that spot perfectly embodied the feeling.<br /> <br /> I agree again!
i 23rd this comment
So much win.
heck yes, ah heck yes.
yes. quite jizzworthy.
What can i say?<br /> <br /> Incredible.
agggggggggggggggrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
I 29th this 2 years after it was first said XD<br /> <br /> and that chest thing happens to me too... usually only on DXM but yeah that shit is soo good
years can pass and it'll all still be in agreement.
i 31st this statement
32nd. FUCKING EPIC INDEED.
33rd reply woo! best part of the song ;)
Yup, 34th'd.
I disagree.<br /> <br /> Just kidding, its fucking amazing
i agree
37th person to agree
I feel so much when I listen to this song. I want to cry, run, dance, sing, fly, scream. I want open fields. And all of the sudden all the emaciated bimbos around me don't matter. And the way I am doesn't matter. And the heat on the street doesn't matter. And everything's better, better than ever before.
I don't think you could have put it better.
That could be lyrics to a song--a song about listening to a song...
and charlie kaufman could do the music video.
when i listen to this song it feels like im falling in love. this song is when of the most amazing things i have ever heard. nothing can compare to animal collective.
it is lke falling in love. i can't even sing along without crying a little bit.
one of the greatest songs i've ever heard, first of all.
to me its very, very dreamlike; the sounds within it as well as the lyric content.
i interpret it like this: the field of flowers is a state of mind, one that is fantastical/unrealistic. he meets someone who is the type of person who can ignore all the negativity/complications of this life and just be happy (to dance). he's never really in that state of mind as much as he'd like to be and is envious of said dancer. the only way he can do so is through dreaming where he then could just be happy with this person even if his time is quite limited. after cherishing each moment he begins to awake from this ecstasy-filled dream.
When I first heard the song, it was beautiful to me and about 2 weeks ago, when I was listening to their albums, I realized that I already heard this fine melody "behind" the song and wanted to know where from. As my alltime favourite band is Pink Floyd, I knew that this melody is from their song. Couldn't remember which one, and two days after I heard Hey You on the radio. I was pretty happy :) I just absolutely love it how they put the intro of the Pink Floyd's Hey You through the song, in case somebody didn't recognized it :) It's a kind of hommage to the masters od psychedelic music :) Love both of them.
"And when our eyes will meet there we will recognize nothing's wrong."
Er, not sure if you know this or not, but this is actually the greatest song ever written. Ever.
I knew that.
my interpretation
Author meets a girl dancer who he is moved by. She dances to the rhythm with no care of the outside world (carefree = flowers) He is envious of this raw emotion and would like to leave his busy world for a while.
-If I could just leave my body for the night -
They dance the night together He understands it won't last forever so he hold her in time. The morning comes and the dancing ends.
Alright this song is one of the most beautiful love songs ever created. When I hear this song I get so happy I feel like crying and laughing is the only way to show it off. I never want to stop hearing this song it gives me the same feeling I get when I first heard Real Love by John Lennon. I just know that love is real even though my own experiences have told me other wise. This song makes living so fucking easy because every day that you listen to this song means everyday you know that love might just be around the corner. If someone was to ban music I would hear this song even if it meant my death. I needed to just express how much I love this song, thanks for reading.
Does anyone feel an angst hidden all throughout this album? Like the authors are trying to explain themselves.