The opening track to The Antlers‘ fifth studio album Familiars introduces several recurring themes and motifs that are revisited throughout the album.
While many tracks on the album features the signature emotional weight and despair present in their earlier work, “Palace” offers a glimpse of hope...
You were simpler
You were lighter when we thought like little kids
Like a weightless, hate-less animal
Beautifully oblivious before you were hid
Inside a stranger you grew into
As you learned to disconnect
Now he hangs your mirrors separately
So one can’t show you what the other reflects
When he heard I was on his tail, he emptied your account
And hid a part of you that’s so invaluable
The part of you unsellable at any amount
He left the tallest peak of your paradise
Buried in the bottom of a canyon in hell
But I swear I’ll find your light in the middle
Where there’s so little late at night, down in the pit of the well
Then when heaven has a line around the corner
We shouldn’t have to wait around and hope to get in
If we can carpenter a home in our heart right now
And carve a palace from within
[Chorus]
We won’t need to take a ton of pictures
It won’t be easy to believe
The day we wake inside a secret place that everyone can see
We won’t need to take a ton of pictures
It won’t be easy to believe
The day we wake inside a secret place that everyone can see
The day we wake inside a secret place that everyone can see
Palace was written by The Antlers.
Palace was produced by The Antlers.
The Antlers released Palace on Mon Mar 31 2014.