Vertical - Animal Collective

Mountains in Kauai

Make me feel so lowly

Cower at their power

Vertical I like

Dizzy under buildings

Bending like their willing

Is it what I’m seeing

Vertical is fright

Hard to gain perspective

Often it’s perplexing

Reaching for a record

Vertical is sight

Hanging on a pylon

Dropping from a million

Jumping hill to hill on

Vertical is height

People live above you

Postured like a totem

Runnin' up some stairs oh

Vertical is might

Stalling on a nose and

Places to propose in

Seeing everything from

Vertical is light

Diamonds of the sky on

Black and endless background

Reaching out to grab them

Vertical at night

My imagination

Reaches to forever

Like an endless tower

Vertical I write

So high and still it sends a feeling through me

(Oh up above me

Falling over)

Suddenly not vertical

Breathe in the air the goes through a system that is

(down below me

Working steady)

Weary when it’s vertical

A tree we are with limbs extending to the sun

(Single holly

Finches calling)

Very lovely vertical

Come find me floating up if you should find me gone

(Nice and

Breezy

Spirits easy)

Did you hear the child say?

My feet can’t cross the parking lot

The parking lot is way too hot

Then everything went vertical

For me

At the tips of cities

Birds are tracing columns

Windows bend in wind

Vertical in flight

Down below a statue

People stand in poses

Making good impressions

Vertical delights

Lying on a trunk

And waiting to be dreaming

Startled by a thumpin'

Vertical insight

Lots of people thinkin'

Thinking about falling

Nothing but a rope so

Vertical hold tight

Sometimes you feel the pressure dropping on you

(Heavy folders

Daring soldiers)

Crashing from the vertical

I start to wonder does this system matter?

(Crumbling boulder

Couldn’t hold her)

Only if it’s vertical

Even in leaves some creatures build themselves a home

(Ancient maples

Empty stables)

Can’t always be vertical

Lifted above the din their worlds a peaceful dome

(Natures diet

Finding quiet)

They don’t hear the child say

My feet can’t cross the parking lot

The parking lot is way too hot

Then everything went vertical

The parking lot is way too hot

Then everything went vertical