In The Flowers - Animal Collective

Met a dancer

Who was high in a field

From her movement

Caught my breath on my way home

Couldn’t stop that spinning force I felt in me,

Everything around seemed to giggle glee

She walked up with a flower and I cared

Found a dancer

Who gets wild to the beats

of record rhythm

But I’m always away for weeks that pass slow

My mind gets lost

Feeling envy for the kid who’ll dance despite anything

I walk out in the flowers, and feel better

If I could just leave my body for the night,

Then we could be dancing

No more missing you while I’m gone

There we could be dancing,

And you’d smile and say, «I like this song»

And when our eyes will meet there

We will recognize nothing’s wrong

And I wouldn’t feel so selfish

I won’t be this way very long

To hold you in time

To hold you in time

To hold you in time

To hold you in time

While we were dancing

Early hours

Drunken days finally ended

And the streets turned for a pillowcase

Then I fumbled our good lock

Then the ecstasy turns to rising light

Through our windowpane

Now I’m gone

I left flowers for you there