Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Lyrics
1.In The Flowers

Met a dancer
Who was high in a field
From her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that expanding force
I felt in me
Everything around seemed to giggle glee
She walked up with a flower and I cared

Got a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats of record rhythms
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 walk 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


2.My Girls

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father's grace

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father's grace

I don't mean to seem like I care about material things like a
social status
I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls
I don't mean to seem like I care about material things like a
social status
I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father's grace


3.Also Frightened

Face your body into the dark
and you can't sweat once you've swung by the hem
Let them crawl into the logs
Let damn groun the hue of a pen
Exciting and screaming, their voices go wild
And rise with the birds mating up in the pines
Down to puddles that breathe covered by leaves
With mud they'll make prints on their backs

Will it just be like they're dreaming?
Will it be just like I'm dreaming?
Will it just be like they're dreaming?
Will it be just like I'm dreaming?

If they're awake till the dawn
Well we won't fret that they don't have our eyes
The ghost came crawling around
And when I woke you slept there on your side
From our window to lanterns
Go signs on the night
And light up two shadows that watch with delight
Well, I want them to be who they will be
Ooh to be more like their dad

Will it just be like they're dreaming?
Will it be just like I'm dreaming?
Will it just be like they're dreaming?
Will it be just like I'm dreaming?

When influence is threatened
Maybe I should let them
Maybe we should let them
And I have a question:

ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?
ARE YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED?

Won't she call you a dreamer?
No one should call you a dreamer?
No one should call you a dreamer?
No one should call you a dreamer?


4.Summertime Clothes

Sweet summer night and I'm stripped to my sheets
Foreman is leaking; my AC squeaks
And a voice from the clock says 'You're not gonna get tired'
My bed is a pool and the wall's on fire

Soak my head in the sink for a while
It chills my neck and it makes me smile
But my bones gotta move and my skin's gotta breathe
You pick up the phone and I'm so relieved

You slide down the stairs to the eager street
And the sun is left with slippery feet
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
(And be here with you)

It doesn't really matter, I'll go where you feel
Home for the breeze, get a midnight meal
I'll point in the windows, you point out the parks
Rip off your sleeves and I'll ditch my socks

Dance to the songs from the cars as they pass
Weave through the cardboard, smell that trash
Walkin' around in our summertime clothes
Know where to go where our bodies go

And we'll breath the dawn in its morning blues
With purple yawns, you'll be sleeping soon
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you

When the sun goes down we'll go out again! (x16)

Don't cool off
I like your warmth

Let's leave the sound of the heat for the sound of the rain
It's easy to sleep when it wets my brain
It covers my rest with a saccharine sheen
Kissing the wind through my window screen

But restless is causeless and I cannot hide
So much of my mind that it spills outside
Do you wanna go stroll down a financial street?
Our clothes might get soaked
But the buildings sleep

And there's no one pushing for a place
As we enter at an easy pace
And I want to walk around with you
And I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
I want to walk around with you
Just you, just you, just you, just you
Just you, just you, just you, just you
Just you, just you, just you, just you
Just you, just you, just you, just you


5.Daily Routine

Just a sec more in my bed
Hope my machine's working right
When it's just precisely tuned
That shit's gonna be so nice

Make sure my kid's got a jacket
Keys and coat and shoes and hat
Strap a stroller to my back
Bouncing along every crack

What good is it to make it fast
Sing a song to pass the playground
What can I do as traffic pass
Guard my girl from muffler's black gas

What can I do to make it fast
Pop a jump but not too hard
And we'll end up at the ramp
Stop and look at the traffic signal

Just a sec more in my bed
Hope my machine's working right
When it's just precisely tuned
That shit's gonna be so nice

Make sure my kid's got a jacket
Keys and coat and shoes and hat
Strap a stroller to my back
Bouncing along every crack

What good is it to make it fast
Sing a song to pass the playground
What can I do as traffic pass
Guard my girl from muffler's black gas

What can I do to make it fast
Pop a jump but not too hard
And we'll end up at the ramp
Stop and look at the traffic signal


6.Bluish

I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm drawing pictures on your skin, so soft it twirls
I like your looks when you get mean
I know I shouldn't say so but when you
Claw me like a cat, I'm beaming
I like the way you squeeze my hand
Pulling me into another dream,
A lucid dream.
I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm getting crushed out on the things
that only I should see
not for boys, they're just for me
Hurry to talk, from far away

I can see you, you curl your fists and you pull your hair
When we're alone, I wanna say
Let's just stay in, no one's here in our apartment babe

Put on the dress that I like
It makes me so crazy, though I can't say why
Keep on your stockings for a while
Some kind of magic in the way you're lying there

I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm getting rushed back on a whim,
Our breaths get wind
Back to the time when we were green
I know we have changed
But I still grin 'cause I can't wait to see you
Back to the time I touched your hair
When I was so scared to look that mean, I think it's weird

I'm getting lost in your curls
I'm getting crushed out on the things
that only I should see
They're not for boys, they're just for me
Girl you can talk, from far away

It's so hard for me
Only to get the urge to kiss you there
When we're alone, I wanna say
Let's just stay in, no one's here in our apartment babe

Put on the dress that I like
It makes me so crazy, though I can't say why
Keep on your stockings for a while
Some kind of magic in the way you're lying there

Put on your clothes that I like
It makes me so crazy, though I can't say why
Keep on your stockings for a while
Some kind of magic in the way you talk about your

blue eyeshadow
it's not exactly blue, no
and if you too call it
anything but your blue


7.Guys Eyes

I really want to do just what my body wants to
I really want to do just what my body needs to
if I could just hold all the thoughts in my head and just keep
them for you
I really want to show to my girl that I want her
if I could just purge all the urges that I have and keep them
for you
I really want to show to my girl that I need her
I keep it locked right now
need her

I want to do just what my body needs to
if I could just hold all the thoughts in my head and just keep
them for you
I want to show to my girl that I need her
if I could just purge all the urges that I have and keep them
for you
I keep it locked right now

I started using my mind
and I used my hand
it was what I want to do
I really don't know what to do if my body should want to
what I want


8.Taste

Am I really all the things that are outside of me?
Would I complete myself without the things I like around?
Does the music that I make play on my awkward face?
Do you appreciate the subtleties of taste buds?

My friend and me were having laughs
In a living room filled with arts and crafts
He said 'I like their clothes and their charming ways,
But what I really want is a simple place,
With no fashion clothes 'cause you can't eat those'

Only Ma'd pretend to like the clothes you showed to me,
Something in my heart can tell me it's a weakness,
And maybe you would have more luck playing those tasty games,
But me, I called and called and never heard from her again.

She's too good to share our favorite things,
I'll keep an open mind if you let me in.
Don't let your temper rise, don't get a bitter face.
Try not to judge me on my kind of taste.
And don't go changing clothes when they don't like yours.

Am I really all the things that are outside of me?


9.Lion In A Coma

when all this mess will ever get away, apart from Chinatown
weaving in and out of line, the sidewalk's full of merchandise
and now my nervous tick has capped a lip,
my cheeks are chewed down to the bit
upon the roof is stealing at the hustling crowds still reached
out
i go up there and light a leaf and wish our turn was next now
a (?) and some of us that's back inside a haunted house
i packed my bags and filled em with (?)
(?)
this rhythm that's up in my head,
this rhythm that's up in my head,
this rhythm it needs to get right out of my clothes and get into
my bedroom.

is there no reason it'll be the way it was musically
my three best friends so casually just letting go so joyfully
and if i let my (?) and if i let my (?)
I'll always be happy or now is it just trying to divide?
it makes me think my dearest things
are not what they're supposed to be.
i trick myself at anytime i've got to keep up
oh my god
and hope that i will not be wrong and keep my faith inside a
song
and we'll make up, which reminds me not to leave them back
inside
this rhythm that's up in my head,
this rhythm that's up in my head,
this rhythm it needs to get right out of my clothes and get into
my bedroom.

lion in a coma, lion in a coma, do do do do
lion in a coma, lion in a coma, do do do do

Sometimes the sun will shine, yes i am just feelin' fine.
Sometimes i'm not aware where I am or what i care
Sometimes i'm well-to-do but I don't know what to do
Sometimes i don't agree with my thoughts on being free
Please don't leave me
Seems I feel good,
I've been lucky trying to feel good
Sometimes the sun will shine, yes i am just feelin' fine.
Sometimes i'm not aware where I am or what i care
Sometimes i'm well-to-do but I don't know what to do
Sometimes i don't agree with my thoughts on being free.

Please don't leave me
Seems I feel good,
I've been lucky trying to feel good.
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to smell the fine aroma,
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to run again at home
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to use his aching bones
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma.
Don't keep lying in a coma.
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to smell the fine aroma,
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to use his aching bones
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma
Who wants to run again at home
Lion in a coma, Lion in a coma.
Don't keep lying in a coma.


10.No More Runnin

no more runnin
says my mind
all this movement
has just proved
your kisses are too fine
hold the honey that i see
friends i once had
turn their thoughts away from me

no more runnin
ive got to be
on back porches
with a torch
of a fire fly lit tree

its what i hoped for
its what i hoped for
no more runnin
no more runnin

i lock my bones and
trip my feet
i told them
ill find a place to be

you stink like candy
in your teeth
when you
leave your face with me

no more runnin
says my mind
all this movement
has just proved
your kisses are too fine

its what i hoped for
its what i hoped for
no more runnin
no more runnin
no more runnin
no more runnin


11.Brother Sport

Open up your, open up your
Open up your throat
And let the all of that time
All of that time, all of that time go
I know it sucks that daddy's dumb
But try to think of what you want
You got to open up your
Open up your, open up your
Open up your throat
Matt
Open up your (Open up your)(7x)
Open up your throat
Open up your, open up your
Open up your throat
And let the all of that time
All of that time, all of that time go
I know it sucks that daddy's dumb
But try to think of what you want
You got to open up your
Open up your, open up your throat
Matt
Support your brother (sports brother) (7x)
Support your brother
You got to weigh what he said
To help you shape the way you play
You gotta get rid of the mourning
Sort out the habits of your mind
You got to weigh what he said
To help you shape the way you play
You gotta get rid of the mourning
Sort out the habits of your mind