Animal Collective
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This song is a 12 minute tiptoe through a world of anxious guitar chords, indecipherable samples, and twisted, obfuscated vocals. The lyrics in the song (from what you can decipher) seem to tell a story about visiting friends. Based on the anxiety present in the song, it sounds like friends that Ave...
We were visiting friends
And saying hello
Then getting stoned
And not saying much
You think the people on TV
Talk faster than us
I'm still holding the cup
Ignoring the sound
Of the ice cream truck
He was being stingy
She was visiting moods
We were visiting plants
But it was too muddy
Your shoe got stuck
I laughed a lot
The plants looked unwell
I heard a bird in the windowpane
So you rolled up your grass
On the seat of my bike
But the cop couldn't tell
He had visiting hands
We were visiting beds
And marking the difference
In the way that they smell
The light hits them different
The sheets do get cold
When the windows are cracked
Or you recognize the room
And the posters that tilt
Furniture spread around
We were visiting mine
We were visiting mine
We were visiting mine
We were visiting mine
We were visiting mine
Visiting Friends was written by Panda Bear & Avey Tare.
Visiting Friends was produced by Animal Collective.
Animal Collective released Visiting Friends on Mon May 03 2004.