In an interview with Pitchfork, Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen explained that he wrote Four Cypresses from the “perspective of a homeless person sleeping in the driveway of a place he was staying in L.A., but broadened to encompass his thoughts about the refugee experience and life during wartime.
Instead of moving
Stared into the wall
Tangled up in a pile
It's early
Make no sound
Living in a pile
It's chaos but it works
Planes flying overhead so early
Dreadful sound
Four cypresses seen from a neighbor's yard
No memory
A future, drawing down
Planes flying overhead so early
Make no sound
Four cypresses torn from the roadside
Great thundering noise from the hillside
Some thousands of years built it up
Some crumbling form to be torn down
Living in a pile
Tangled in a pile
It's chaos but it works
Four Cypresses was written by Christopher Bear & Ed Droste & Chris Taylor & Daniel Rossen.
Four Cypresses was produced by Chris Taylor.
Grizzly Bear released Four Cypresses on Fri Jun 23 2017.