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lyrics
Every time I sing, you say that I’m gas-lighting, falsifying a private Thermidor
Your love was a warm wind, and me an empty sail, I collapse to the kitchen floor
When I wish I was never born
My mother tells me I wasn’t born so much as excreted
But this emptiness is a gift
I’m free to write the future, an empty man undefeated
I think I’ve found the cure:
Make sure to live a quarter of your waking life in the present
And the rest I’ll spend remembering
Scorching our feet on the sand and tires of our bikes on wet cement
We were sparklers in the night, and even now your resting face cannot conceal the light
Your love was a warm wind, as the world you left, it falls away, and an island rises into sight
credits
from Island,
track released May 15, 2020
2020, Domino Recording Co Ltd
This is undoubtedly my single favorite album of all time. It feels like such a perfect culmination of all the themes and ideas Fleet Foxes has been working with since 2008. It answers many of the questions found on both Helplessness Blues and Crack-Up, and represents an incredible maturation and growth in Robin Pecknold's perspective. Their other albums are certainly masterpieces, but this, in my opinion, is their magnum opus. I doubt it will be recognized as such in its time. isaiah_stuart
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