Tidal Hisses is the last song on Parquet Courts’s first album. It’s slow, complex instrumentals reflect it’s poetic lyrics. Each line is sung in the same tune, which gives them the hypnotic feel of waves crashing against the shore.
Time seemed to waste itself, those days
It was a world of constant sunsets
That got progressively longer
Until they were all unifying
Into a slow and constant burn
Each moment a humming sizzle
Drifting in and out of our heads
Tidal hisses ebb and flowing
There is no love song I’d sing you
I’d just be wasting my time