[utensilvirus]

Listening to several boots in an attempt to piece together lyrics to some of these new songs. Hoping to decipher more soon. Give me your depictions/corrections if ya got em. Also, some of the lyrics a tweeked slightly between boots, so I did a word/word for that.

Bolder

Spoiler: show

Bolder, Bolder, Bolder, Bolder x2

Sitting in the rough it’s hard to smile
I could be the one to do the pleasing
Even when the dirt falls many hours
Frequency of things will make us feel a little better

Bolder, Bolder, Bolder, Bolder x2

Stick around the men that block us out
Do you find it hard to please their reaping
Deep beneath the sheets I’ll make you smile
You and me together make us feel a little better

Bolder, Bolder, Bolder, Bolder x2

Sitting with a night cap all alone
Used to think a need would come with age but
End of the day I want to share
Frequency of love will make you feel a little better

Bolder, Bolder, Bolder, Bolder x2

Sitting with a love that’s hard to smile
I could be the one to do the pleasing
End of the day I want to share
The frequency of love will make you feel a little better

Bolder, bolder, us together x3
Bolder, bolder

Passerby

Spoiler: show

I was (abandoned?) son
Became a looking man
Who had a silent way
Silos passed everywhere
Sapling became a fir
Further I look for me
Shadows grow/stretch on the ground
Don’t have a effigy (...tree?)

Look at the burning sun
How does it last so long
After a thinking day
People have to lay down
Is it a shame to rest
Doesn’t our night grow dim
If I had some kerosene
I’d light all peoples way

I’m a passerby
Sweet/Smooth talking lady found me
I would try not to cry
They can read the (bottle/bottom? wide?)
It’s a kind of risk
Wouldn’t I be crazy
But I wouldn’t miss a moment’s bliss
Found it on a mother’s grace

I’m a passerby
Truth talking lady found me
I would try not to cry/I’ll have to pry
They can read the (bottle/bottom? wide?)
It’s a kind of risk
Wouldn’t I be crazy
But I wouldn’t miss a moment’s bliss
Found it on a mother’s grace
Oooooh

Cherokee

Spoiler: show

Late for its upon arrival, my mind’s begun to fire
Early peculiarities of how it spends its time
And there’s turkeys out the window, Jesus on a plate
There’s plastic on a part somewhere, it’s got no ???
On a trip I saw Faceache(?), treated like it’s jade
And someone in the lobby dressed down just like me
An infant won the lottery, but really it was he
With a pocket full of roofies, a pocket full of teeth
Some people call that pleasure and some people call that grief
At the Exxon there were confused that I was American
And so I left offended with a pack of M&M’s

And I’ve been sitting for a long time/short while
On the back of Cherokee

And out there in Black Mountain ???
But you could learn a lot just go above there in my tree/take a hike up in my tree
They gather round the easel, spell community
Now I’m looking for my teachers, and wondering what that means
There’ll be lots of empty mailboxes when paper disappears
And people on the subway look/sit so far to be so near
To people on the screens they touch smile from ear to ear
And me, I talk to spirits but they tell me that’s not real

And I’ve been singing for a long time
In the back to Cherokee

If you can do love you hear me
If you can do love you heal me

Someone’s at the greytop, someone’s giving pens
And people are partaking in the passing of a ???/cleaning of a tank
And here it is 11 here it is 19
I’m missing all your breakfasts and I’m missing my evenings

And I’ve been sitting for a long time/short while
Driving back to Cherokee

[unpopular]

good thread

i think in passerby it's supposed to be "sapling became a fir" not "fur"

Kings

Spoiler: show

(To be a sound) is to be right where you should
(To be a sound) is to almost see right through it
(Hold on!)
(To be a sound) is to be right where you should
(To be a sound) is to almost see right through it

Prester John

Spoiler: show

There's a broken stick
There's a wrinkle on a leaf, it's dried out
Was a good long (while/run)
With a world of burning tensions by it
It's the end of this
It's the end of (after what we pilot)
To the end of it
To the end of feeling smug about it

With a little prick
With a passion for a little giving
Is a little tip
Had a look at what it's really giving
Treated every day
As an image of a moment that's passed
Treated every day
As an image of a moment that's passed

Prester John is breaking down, down
His heart breaking down (now)
Prester John is breaking down, down
His heart breaking down (now)
Prester John is breaking down, down
His heart breaking down [incoherent panda mumbling]
Prester John is breaking down, down
His heart breaking down (now)

Treated every day
As an image of a moment that's passed

[utensilvirus]

made that spelling update, thanks, and took a stab at Cherokee

[MrAirplane]

Stride Right

Spoiler: show

Here once again my guys before
The paining patient pleading for
The doctor's open heart

She's lying sideways peering through
The open blouse discovering
Her mother's dying heart

And I'm late cause I don't have the time
But I'm hope I'm not (late/blamed) for that
I'm (unwell/unwound?)

Don't hide behind this love is (wide/why/wild?)
Just take a stride, might even have to climb
Don't hide behind this love is (wide?)
Just take a stride, might even have to climb

Lost one to cancer, two to sorrow
Three by losing patience with
The people who we are

Still sunlight gathers pooling round
(These dying ones each/Each dying one they're) leaving us
For pastures in our hearts

And her winter sorrow's hard I know
But (I went/I've been) through worse than that
I'm (unwell/unwound?)

Don't hide behind this love is (wide?)
Just take a stride, might even have to climb
Don't hide behind this love is (wide?)
Just take a stride, might even have to climb
Climb

[unpopular]

took a stab at defeat

Defeat (A Not Suite)

Spoiler: show

A fear of things decaying fast
Still I wake to healthy roses
A beach ran off (in distant plumes)
Children weeping under wagons
Douse the sheets with (lady's ash)
Blissful thing (with awesome powers)
Strangers laying with (the lounge)
Drawing signs that look like boats that wash away
Just grab something, take hold
The only things to know
Stay grounded like the spruce
A little change
Just grab something, take hold
The only thing you know
Stay grounded like the spruce

One day friend we'll meet again
Hopefully then the Earth is quiet
We'll all lay down with you in bed
Loneliness is left for letters
Voices singing of the truth
Did not make the sound of lions
(Watch as gems they're holding fall)
Dive to catch the (sluice's pool in rocks of jade)
Just grab something, take hold
The only things to know is
Stay grounded like a spruce
A little change
Just grab something, take hold
The only thing you know
Stay grounded like the spruce

(There, there, there)

Snapping all around, the sound, the sound, float around, float around the husband now
Left him on the ground, the ground, the ground, (sucking down, sucking down) he heard the sound
Someone shook this town, the ground, the ground, broken ground, broken ground, the (Earthen mound)
(Who cleaned up the ground), the ground, the ground, not a clown, not a clown, the sorrow's sound

The rain!
I see you!
The rain!

Snapping all around, the sound, the sound, float around, float around the husband now
Lift him off the ground, the ground, the ground, (sucking down, sucking down) he heard the sound
Someone shook this town, the ground, the ground, broken ground, broken ground, the (Earthen mound)
(Who cleaned up the ground), the ground, the ground, not a clown, not a clown, the sorrow's sound

The rain!
I see you!
The rain!

We once had a good way
Does a good way always paved (fly)?
Handle with care, we were
Coming of age
Anything would do
Twist them off and pass them 'round
Where'd it change
Coming of age?

(Lunged toward the free light)
The opportunity radical
On top of our days, they were
Coming of age
Praise for the underdog
It was you with the good dog
And what was its name
Coming of age

Just a frightened mother
Looking for her daughter
Justice/Just as justice wanders
Looking for some shelter

Once had a good day
I had a room and you knew it well
Our games were our grace, we were
Coming of age
We were the good news
Now I'm all out but how 'bout you?
A brand new (listen)
Come of age

Just a frightened mother
Looking for her daughter
Justice/Just as justice wanders
Looking for some shelter

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

But isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

But isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

But isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Just a frightened mother
Looking for her daughter
Justice/Just as justice wanders
Looking for some shelter

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

But isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

But isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no, not now

Isn't it now
Defeat?
Oh no

Defeat
Defeat
Defeat
Defeat

[sound science]

Has anyone transcribed Gem and I, Appreciate, or DownDownDownDown by any chance?

Edit: Found a nice Reddit thread with lyrics for lots of songs: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCollecti ... new_songs/

[howsoever]

Is it time to revive this thread? Unfortunately the Reddit post with a bunch of the lyrics was deleted by its poster a few weeks back

[unrecordednight]

i transcribed the lyrics to prester john and will do the rest of the album if it doesn't include a lyrics sheet in the liner notes!

believe this is all correct except for the one line i left blank, can anyone figure that one out?

Let me get it in

Let me change up before it is too late
There’s a broken stick
There’s a wrinkle _______ if it’s dried out
Was a good long run
With a world of good intentions by it
It’s the end of this

It’s the end of having to worry about it

To the end of it

To the ends of lonely days without it
With a little lift
With a passion for a little giving
He’s a little tick

Had a look at what it’s really living

Treating every day as an image of a moment that’s passed

Prestor John is breaking downtown

His heart is breaking downtown

Prestor John is breaking downtown

His heart is breaking down now
(Treating every day as an image of a moment that’s passed)

[roopn]

There's a wrinkle on a leaf it's dried out

[diatomatix]

unrecordednight wrote:

He’s a little tick

Had a look at what it’s really living

i hear "here's a little tip / how to look at what is really living"

but it's very, very possible that my mind is making that up.

[speen]

Has anyone tried to get the lyrics to dragon slayer? I've had that chorus bit stuck in my head for a while, but only just realized that I think he's saying "Hold and let it breathe, let it breathe, while the moon glows / hold them, hard to see, hard to see, while the sun glows" or something like that??

I feel like this is gonna be one of those cases where im totally on the wrong track even though what i'm hearing makes sense in my head lol

[howsoever]

Apple Music has the official lyrics to Prester. When it was first released it seemed to have the band-supplied lyrics that had Deakin’s quiet line in the background of the coda, but now it’s gone. It was something like “But he’s getting by”

Spoiler: show

Lemme get it in
Lemme change up before it is too late

There’s a broken stick
There’s a wrinkle on a leaf
It’s dried out

Was a good long run
With a world of good intentions by it

It’s the end of this
It’s the end of havin’ to worry about it

To the end of it
To the end of lonely days without it

With a little lift
With a passion for a little giving

Here’s a little tip
Had a look at what it’s really livin’

Treatin’ every day
As an image of a moment that’s passed

Prester John is breaking downtown
His heart is breaking down, down

[unrecordednight]

ooo nice! wonder if that's an indication that we're going to get the lyrics to every song on the album! that would be sweet

[howsoever]

I think so! They’ve been getting better about releasing lyrics on an official capacity as of late

[roopn]

I can't believe it's actually downtown

[captainlunatic]

"had a look at what it's really livin'"

at what what is really livin'?!

[captainlunatic]

these official lyrics just complicate the interpretation i already had. think i prefer these though. more cryptic

[howsoever]

It’s kinda cool they kept the downtown. I think the original Music Box lyrics were more overt about the town imagery: “Prester John is breaking downtown / His town is breaking down, too”

Panda’s lyrics have been getting more cryptic too over the past decade so this is a solid middle-ground where it’s not too nonsensical but is light in detail

[northernchild]

when i’m singing it in my head it’s:

with a little bit
with a passion for a little bitty

[unrecordednight]

can anyone make out what the lyrics are during the outro of magicians? love that part and the lyrics sound so cool but i can't make out the final bit of them:

there is a dream land many miles inside me,
and i go there when i can, many miles [?under me?]

[Slippi's Applesauce]

speen wrote:

Has anyone tried to get the lyrics to dragon slayer? I've had that chorus bit stuck in my head for a while, but only just realized that I think he's saying "Hold and let it breathe, let it breathe, while the moon glows / hold them, hard to see, hard to see, while the sun glows" or something like that??

I feel like this is gonna be one of those cases where im totally on the wrong track even though what i'm hearing makes sense in my head lol

99.9% it's
"Hold them let them bleed, let them bleed by the mangroves"
"Hold them hard to see, hard to see, hear the seagulls"

edit: could also be "main road" instead of mangroves

[speen]

woah thats sick too. classic avey lyrics either way

[Tikwid]

howsoever wrote:

Deakin’s quiet line in the background of the coda

Isn't that quiet line "he says it's better but...", carried over from the original Music Box version?

[nothingmaster]

unrecordednight wrote:

can anyone make out what the lyrics are during the outro of magicians? love that part and the lyrics sound so cool but i can't make out the final bit of them:

there is a dream land many miles inside me,
and i go there when i can, many miles [?under me?]

pretty sure it's "haunting me"

[Slippi's Applesauce]

took a shot at studio Walker

Spoiler: show

Go and take a load off
Put the baggage down
Going where the y?(ears) won't
deceive

I'm ready for the take off
Just been standing round

You're gonna get a standing O
You're gonna get a standing O
You've gotta get the standing O
Appreciate, you cannot wait
We'll see you out there

Going through the motions
Put the baggage down
Going to resign and grieve

It's working but it's broken
Enough for one more round

This is just for you to know
This is just for you to know
I wanted just for you to know
Appreciate, you cannot wait
We'll see you out there

We'll see you there

To all your pots' knees (listen to) ?
Which one (Speak to the light) ?
Ions ?
Which is summer (I don't know) ?
To all your pots' knees (listen to) ?
Which one (Speak to the light) ?
Ions ?
Which is summer (I don't know) ?

[Dudders]

Just noticed that the Pitchfork video has closed captions and some poor soul had to attempt to transcribe Car Keys and Dragon Slayer. Will be fun to compare against the studio versions. Sure hope Pitchfork likes slow lounge music!


Car Keys

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Get back the car keys
Don't lose the car keys
Probably [indistinct]
Since spending time get beside me
Give me the once over
Ready to wave bye
[indistinct] and one stuck up in the push

You can't get in softly
Into the right chamber
Sat with the works
Babe is on the sidewalk
That's when he comes over
Far from the one

How will we do it now
How will we do it now
How will we do it now
How will we do it now
[cross singing]

[indistinct]
And the minutes can make up in my
[indistinct]
Just how long they like to be
[indistinct]
And the animals are wondering
Away
Why are we in such a rush. Yeah!

[slow lounge music]

Going home in tightly
Give me the once over
Ready to wave bye

[indistinct]
And the minutes can't make up in my
[indistinct]
Just how long they like to be
[indistinct]
And the animals are wondering
Away
Why are we in such a rush

[indistinct]
And the weirdest thing isn't blue
[indistinct]
If you ever meet your dark side
[indistinct]
And the rain coats retiring
[indistinct]

[slow lounge music]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

[lead singer humming]

Dragon Slayer

Spoiler: show

[slow lounge music]

I saw a red flag rise
Beacon by the water
I saw a red flag [indistinct]
[indistinct]

I saw a red kite fly
Was it held by an anchor
I saw a red kite burn
I saw a string on a stair

Your enemies changed their mind
Don't think you're a [indistinct]
Or would you care if enemies didn't mind
[indistinct]
From burning stairs

Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The seagulls
Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The sea-

[slow lounge music]

Slayer
Soul star

I saw a red flag wind
Slayer
And beacon by the water
Soul star
Where a red flag wander
Slayer
[indistinct]
Soul star

The enemies changed their mind
Don't think you're a [indistinct]
Or would you care if enemies changed their mind
[indistinct]
From burning stairs

Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The seagulls
Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The seagulls
Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The seagulls
Go and let them be, let them be, find the rainbow
Golden heart to see heart, to see here
The seagulls

[Slippi's Applesauce]

Lmao who transcribed those? Disturbingly wrong

[destiny]

Get back the car keys, dont lose the car keys

[Whyguy]

official lyrics for strung!

Don’t peak it won't last that long
or rarely
It's really new everyday
You need that click and they wrote it wrong
Delivery
Our terrarium moaned

No sleeping in
There's a natural clicking
That can be heard in the kinks
You need to forget the trouble maker
Dislike the silicone heads


Fresh sneakers in Babylon get dirty
But we’re digging that way
I cut my pace no more racing urges
How many days do we have?
I like some pressure and it likes pleasing
Some find their way in a hearse
The summer’s here and the time is crying
It spent all year in your head

I’ve got this world (I think)
I build a thing and it does
I do believe there's a conscious in things
Don't believe in the time
Just the inside of you
Feel it all collapse
I think that things will fall apart
The grass will find its shape again

The sun’s no better off lately
The sun’s no better off now

They'll move west when the winter’s biting
Build hotels for their thirst
They’ll move east when the desert’s drying
I moved in
You checked out

We’ve got this heart
It speaks out a thing and we feel
The air sinks in
There's a mist on the sea
There's a clearing for rest
There’s a piece of glass
It went into your foot
The fire and bleeds and soaks us out
The grass can’t find the green again

The sun’s no better off lately
The sun’s no better off now

Let’s say tonight you and me
We’ll watch the sky fall into pieces
And for a moment imagine strings
Holding the trees from falling down
You know I would not be afraid
With your head against my shoulder
And even though all hearts are strange
We’re all Strung with Everything

[dio]

sweet... now someone gimme those chords!@!!

[TetsuoUnderFire]

Cherokee needs to be updated at some parts. Especially "Someone's a the grill top, and someone is Tom Hanks."

[unrecordednight]

i'm not gonna listen to the album till friday but i'll be doing the lyrics for the full album this weekend (except ofc the singles which have official lyrics released)

[Slippi's Applesauce]

Official WGB lyrics from Apple Music

We Go Back
Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow

Trickle of a moment down my life
History in motion
Heat for feeling
Tremble in the moment
Tongue on cheek
I don’t feel the urge to turn back time
I just begin

Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow

Bend to the moment
Feel no thought
Listen to the sound of people hoping
That in the moment there will be bliss
A cause for the moment to be healing
And to begin

Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow

Written in a moment
Read in many
Here it comes again I’m breathing heavy
I ripped up a moment’s worth of love
In the matter of a moment I conceive
We just begin

Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow

I stood for a moment and the sun went down
I got sad for the sun because I would get lonely
Leaving a trail of darkness on a world behind
And always being sun for a world beyond
That just begins

Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow

[Strange_Clams]

What the fuck is panda singing on the chorus of car keys

[tobinge]

i think it's

"hole in the ground
on holy ground
show gratitude
along the way"

[Stories and Games]

time skiffs doesn't exist at all on the ca lyric site, is it just dead at this point? if so, it should become not dead. is there a specific person in charge of creating new pages there or is it just up to whomever has the drive and the knowhow

[jfw7]

it's a drive + knowhow thing. i have to admit my enthusiasm really flagged over there. make an account and add some pages if you're able! i can add the navigation stuff.

[jfw7]

okay, i added pages for skiffs + BTQ
lyrics/Time_Skiffs
lyrics/Bridge_to_Quiet_(EP)

[Whyguy]

no idea how to add to those pages but i've got official lyrics sheet for all the songs and can supply however

[evan6032]

Whyguy wrote:

no idea how to add to those pages but i've got official lyrics sheet for all the songs and can supply however

Just make a thread here if you need to