Lyrics Fleet Foxes – I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
Text:
Sixth floor, alone
I am all that I need
And I’ll be till I’m through
And I’m light on my feet
(Distant light, distant dancer)
Mute at Midnight she might Look Like the answer
But I’m all that I nee-
The band kicks the loner off the stage
Into the city
So, it’s true I’ve gone too far to find you
And the thumbprint scar I let define you
Was a myth I made you measure up to
It was all just water, winding by you
And the basking / gnashing, foaling / feeding
And the rising / falling, melting / freezing
And the raising for destroying feeling
(All we do, this repeats)
(You’ve got all you need on me)
And now I see that it’s all corroding
Soonest seething, soonest folding
But the night won’t last if you just hold fast, so calm down
(I am hardly made of steel)
Tell me, are you so concealed?
(Can’t I just go to sleep?)
You’re no more so blind to me
Exit out of the city
Now memory
«Are you alone?
I don’t believe you
I need to see you»
Thin as a shim and Scottish pale
Bright white light like a bridal veil
«I don’t need you»
Cut to chewn through fingernails
Out of memory
I was a child in the ivy then
I never knew you, you knew me
Not like you knew me
Off on the other ocean now
All is behind you, all is sea
Back into the city
At the edge of the ocean
*White Winter Hymnal Sample*
*Sound of running up stairs*