Banshee Beat

By Animal Collective

On Feels

Released on October 16, 2005

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[Intro]

Oh there'll be time, to get by, to get dry after the swimming pool

Oh there'll be time, to just cry, I wonder why it didn't work out

Oh there'll be time to fish fry, for letters by yours truly

Yours truly


[Verse 1]

Someone in my dictionary's up to no good

I never find the very special words I should

So I have another party with a water glass

And I sit on all your actions, it's a birthing game

And I'll bet he needs a shower 'cause he's just like me

And the soldiers in the painting know your secret face

Well your parrot told me just how I can make you smile

Gonna let you do your thinking if you need a while

But what I gave you made him get mad

A little bit funny how a thing like that

Could travel from one mouth in through another and

The next thing you know you gotta hear it from your brother and

The words they sting like a stump of old wasps

Do you remember when I said go throw the rock in there?

And we ran through the woods to our good house

And you forgot about the things that he could say like

I don't think that I like you anymore

Well I found new feelings at the feeling store

And I can't find you at our kissing place

And I'm scared of those new pair of eyes you have


[Chorus]

So I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool

Hop a fence, leave the street and wet your feet to find the swimming pool

'Cause when I'm snuffed out I doubt I'll find a swimming pool

Hop a fence, leave the street and wet your feet to find the swimming pool


[Verse 2]

But I don't wish that I was dead

Now a very old friend of mine once said

That either way you look at it

You have your fits, I have my fits but feeling is good

Confusion's not a kidney stone in my brain

But if we're miscommunicating, do we feel the same?

Then either way you look at it

You have your fits, I have my fits but feeling is good


[Chorus]

So I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool

Hop a fence, leave the street and wet your feet to find the swimming pool

'Cause when I'm snuffed out I doubt I'll find a swimming pool

Hop a fence, leave the street and wet your feet to find the swimming pool


[Outro]

And you can laugh a little

And you can laugh a little bit

And you can laugh a little

And you can laugh a little bit

And you can laugh a little

And you can laugh a little bit

And you can laugh a little

And you can laugh a little bit