Collected Animals

Sometimes I'm naked and, thank God, sometimes you're naked. Well, hello!

I think that Purple Bottle is one of the best love song of the last twenty years

Lyrics are definitely one of the things i love most of AnCo, i think their folk soul is very underrated in all the analysis and the way people approach to them.

just gave it a shot, here you go!

Have you seen him
from the air
Cast your eyes on ?????????
Would you say "oh no"
now his body's aching
???????????

still haven't found a way to give comfort to jerome
oh [if you] pass his way tell him he's not alone
still haven't found a way to give comfort to jerome
??????? oh seen his way ????????
i don't know what he needs

too many fishing lines
can't seem to find any open fangs
and when the scales refuse to shine
i breathe in UNO DOS TRES CUATRO

is he breathing?
check his pulse
i can hear him moving ??????????
oh what you say jerome
oh what you say jerome
oh what you say jerome
oh what you say jerome
someone tap me on the shoulder

Could this song be about Jerry Garcia? And how despite how blessed and chill he always came across, he had a real problem with heroin and dealing with the results of his fame and subsequent worship by fans.

I bring up the Dead because people always have said that Dead lyrics persist like little stand-alone pieces of poetry which can help you understand life, which is how I feel about our boys' lyrics...

i always loved
"is there one sweet one that I must reach for then I'm done?
Is perfection a place or just a glimpse at hard works face?"
and
"It's not a ticket for you to pick at
other people who don't know what's up like your so sure you do?"

also original opening verse in Taste
"Theres a special place I have that's deep inside of me,
an elusive voice that tells me what I like now.
you might think I'm gonna judge you in your fancy place,
I don't really give a credit to what taste does"

Ain't fate just me?

A Pecker full of no good

soo good day to day

sorry for the omega bump... but my new favorite ac lyric is "one day friend we'll meet again - hopefully then the earth is quiet"

That one is great.. another line from Defeat I love is "fear of things decaying fast, still I awake to healthy roses"

Defeat is pretty much the pandemic anthem for me. As a healthcare worker in these trying times it just resonates so much for me "isn't it now? Defeat.... oh no not now"

another good 2020 line:
treating every day
as an image of a moment that's passed

That blood in the dark will attract a shark
who are not violent, we all got hungry bellies

if the faaaast child's gonna have a deeeaaad hand
we could get him started yeah

then I get a cold, can I get a light
there's a certain type of easy pace, it's what we need to make iiiiitt

you might think I'm gonna judge you in your fancy place
I don't really give the credit to what taste does

it was the clouds that carved the mountains
it was the mountains that made the kids scream

the room is filled with cords and plugs
electronic translucent bugs

trees said their smarts aren't in the books they wrote
wooden notes

wizard with the wand competing with the lightning
coward and also a king and a man of oil

the entirety of turn into something...the lyrics are so fun, sweet, absurd and nostalgic and hopeful and bittersweet and...

this earth and your skin and you know it comes back again

i could probably come up with a top 10 songs for fav lyrics but i would have to listen to the whole discography and space it out to avoid bias and eh fk it im already getting dejavu

"Feelin' envy for the kid who'll dance despite anything"

Said I'm so sorry I came in late this evening
But all the clocks around the town had died
And all the fruit stores' colors were so bright
With couples smiling, cooking things tonight
And what were all those troubles on my mind?
Oh, I took a walk

Want to cry every time I hear this and think about relief

One of the best

Thanks. My tears could quench five feet of lawn sounds like a child's grave as well maybe. I don't really know enough about graves to be sure hehe

I always thought the song was about him missing his childhood but also about him regretting living in a city and missing a previous time when he lived around nature.

You just drift and pray
For sun kissed golden days
-Tired of the cold city

I can't see the landscape
Please describe it's amaranthine haze
-Wishes he could see sunset over a natural horizon

And where's my friend, I wanna hold him tight
He's so far away from mountain lights
-Misses his friend and the feeling of the mountain light.

My tears quench five feet of lawn
-Living in an apartment building with a tiny square patch of grass as a back yard.

And where's my mom, I wanna hold her tight
She's so far away from crowded nights
-Crowded city, misses human connection

I never fully bought the theory that the song was about a miscarriage. Sounds like fan tabloid/gossip to me. I think it's a song written about his early years in NY where he was not having a good time and hated being there and was reminiscing of his previous life in the woods of Maryland.

Amazing lyrics in this song! Steel park slides is such an iconic image of childhood for me, and how they burned you in the summer.

Street Flash and those lines in the particular are also some of my absolute favourites.

Original Kerosene lyrics are fucking great as well.

Where was I?
A flowered shrine,
A cussing bum?
A crystal shine,
On a pool of scum?
A dream so real,
That your vision's gone
Animal
I'm an animal
I'm a mineral
I'm a vegetable
I'm an abacus
Alright

But the ice should not be melting everywhere
Soon we'll all be melting on the shore
Our shoes will all be dripping rubber swirls

^their most underrated song imo

it’s a gut that fears all things unknown
and a link within the brain you know

not a shame to say the instincts there
but a virtue to deny the bait

know the cause and move to gauze and deftly
tratar o sangue (clean up the blood)

it’s a gut that fears all things unknown
and a link within the brain you know

not a shame to say the instincts there
but a virtue to deny the bait

know the cause and move to gauze and deftly
tratar o sangue (clean up the blood)

Noah's lyrics on PW are insane and rarely discussed. The missing link between pbvsgr and buoys

The room is filled with ancient dates,
Where I've been and what I ate.
Before I'm asked to throw them out,
I play with every little doubt.

Rumination and distraction, man!

The bees
The bees
The bees
Reowreowreowrreowr

"There'll be lots of lonely mailboxes when language disappears"

Now don't get too freaky on me

Life was good now death's all wrong

Yessss

What good is it to make it bad?

Oh, apparently that's not the actual lyric

I like mine better

There've been sadder days

My heaven is all around me

The rotten babies poo

You need some tush

Were laughing and were smiling

we're that happy singing band

I'm just saving all my courage for a war

You're an effigy
And a wrapper in a plastic bag
We're all dieties
Washed up in a sewage freebird

(the while section really, but this last part is the best)

Only feel a chill whenever I come out from my shell
I'd surely lie if I said that I was sure that it might work out
Now I won't let it slide
No I won't let it slip up

Found a way and I feel like I shouldn't let go
Drop a bomb on the spots where my doubt streams grow
What to do when things that I want don't allow
For the handful of mouths that I'm trying to feed

Got to do what you've got to do

What weighs on weighs on my mind
So I can't get sleeping at night

Say can I make a bad mistake?
Say what it is I want to say
Say what?

(say, can I say all of Alsatian Darn?)

I won't wait for you in a mural
If you don't wait for me in Albania