Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
This is the opening track on Crack-Up. In an interview lead singer Robin Pecknold gave with The Australian, Pecknold states that the format – the slow, somber opening which breaks into bright, up-tempo strumming – was intended to “make people worried that the album would be really depressing before...
Intro
[Sixth floor, alone]
I am all that I need
And I'll be till I'm through
And I'm light on my feet
Good to be without you
(Distant light, distant dancer)
Mute at Midnight, she might Look Like the answer
But I'm all that I nee-
[The band kicks the loner off the stage]
[Into the city]
So, it's true I've gone too far to find you
And the thumbprint scar I let define you
Was a myth I made you measure up to
It was all just water, winding by you
And the basking / gnashing, foaling / feeding
And the rising / falling, melting / freezing
And the raising for destroying feeling
(All we do, this repeats
You've got all you need on me...)
And now I see that it's all corroding
Soonest seething, soonest folding
But the night won't last if you just hold fast, so calm down
(I am hardly made of steel)
Tell me, are you so concealed?
(Can't I just go to sleep?)
You're no more so blind to me
[Exit out of the city]
[Now memory]
"Are you alone?
I don't believe you
Are you at home? I'll come right now
I need to see you"
Thin as a shim and Scottish pale
Bright white light like a bridal veil
"I don't need you" [Cut to chewn through fingernails]
[Out of memory]
I was a child in the ivy then
I never knew you, you knew me
Not like you knew me
Off on the other ocean now
All is behind you, all is sea
[Back into the city]
[At the edge of the ocean]
[Sample]
[Outro]
I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar was written by Gabriel Gall & Robin Pecknold.
I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar was produced by Jon Seale & Skyler Skjelset & Robin Pecknold.
Fleet Foxes released I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar on Fri Jun 16 2017.
In a Kexp interview, from July 2017, lead singer Robin Pecknold said about the track that it was
Definitely written to be the album opener.. and thinking about what an interesting way to open the album would be, and it seemed like, erhm, to kind of set up some of the rules for the record with that...