Animals - CocoRosie

Now that I’m alone I feel the lonely brokenness

Of all the wicked avenues I’ve ever sold my love on

All these moments of meekness and trembling subsided

In the outright abandon of this orphan child

Home is on the highway, living on soft bread and solace

I guess I’m waiting for nightfall or a solar eclipse

And I wake up half-empty

Only to be filled again with mourning

He’s my evil shadow dove

My black Palamito

Can’t break him like a diamond skull

I can’t seem to do so

Can’t just rub him out

Like The Mob used to do so

Like memories of porno & teastains & tobacco O’h

It’s a mini disastro

Bigger than the ice age

Don’t know if baby dinosaurs

Maybe could live through it

Or Indians and butterflies;

What’s crushed is my spirit

Oh I fear it is too fragile

Like fall-leaves burn like paper

I always knew

I would spend a lot of time alone

No one would understand me

Maybe I should go and live amongst the animals?

Spend all my time

Amongst the animals

And on the tracks I would go

They lead to the sea

To be amongst the animals

Oh, I’m just a fall-leaf, something simple and shy like that

That’s how my heart lies, down beside the sidewalk

Like an empty restaurant filled with perfume and balloons

I sit and entertain the bizarre ghosts of my soul, Lord —

His name still lingers, maybe lactates on my tongue

Perhaps I’m just teething for a foreign, fallen destiny:

Miserable but mine

I look like his mother or Sophia Loren in an

Old fashioned movie

Slow motion, I cling to my child

Desperate for love —

One day soon my brother died

Made me remember all the subordinate feelings I cast aside, and

Maybe I had lied when I said I was ok

Just getting along like a little song that stops to sing and say:

«Wild willow, windy winter

Won’t you blow through me

My whole eternity?»

I always knew

I would spend a lot of time alone

No one would understand me

Maybe I should go and live amongst the animals?

Spend all my time

Amongst the animals

And on the tracks

I would go

They lead to the sea

To be amongst the animals