George Clarke told Apple Music:
A lot of these songs really benefited from what we had learned on Infinite Granite in terms of songwriting and how to structure a song that’s lean and transitions well but still has an emotional punch to it. I think this song is one of those examples. It really could...
Lightning fell and I stood steeping in light
Laughing with brilliant fear
Turning back to your smile
Every door peeled
Open on an autumn afternoon
We traversed warm boredom
Fled disappointment
And loved under the wide rose sky
Drinking silver from a dim spring of mercury
On the outskirts of a desert
The lifeless slither
Still we seek, thirsting and wandering
I was a man made of yesterdays
Mornings glowing like coal
Blinding the every day
Legs buckling together when moving
Now I'm faced from the east
And rushing to the crest
Of the valued vast
Sterling, purple, echoing west
Now, now I run from all my truth
Away with you
Now, now I run from all my truth
Away with you
To the vast, sterling, purple, echoing west
Echoing west
From all my truth
Away with you
West
From all my truth
Away with you
West
From all my truth
Away with you
West
From all my truth
Away with you
The Garden Route was written by Daniel Tracy & George Clarke & Kerry McCoy & Shiv Mehra & Christopher Paul Johnson.
The Garden Route was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Deafheaven released The Garden Route on Fri Mar 28 2025.