Cobwebs
Unraveling Nature's Tapestry: Cobwebs by Animal Collective
Lyrics
With your head in a noose and a grape on a knife
Symbolic imagery suggesting a dangerous situation with a precarious balance.
Found you some breakfast or adventuring eye
Finding sustenance or exploring with a curious eye, possibly in a challenging environment.
You smell trouble, well, how should we get some sleep?
Awareness of impending trouble and the difficulty of finding peace or rest.
When the last of the notes dries dead below skies
Reflection on the end of a musical performance or artistic creation under vast skies.
Poems about poisonous berries and vines
Mention of poems involving dangerous natural elements like poisonous berries and vines.
Would you warm out of the fire of nature, burning up your sheet
Choosing the natural fire's warmth over the artificial, but recognizing its destructive potential.
You know, I wore mistakes so I'd feel alive
Embracing mistakes as a way to feel alive, emphasizing the value of imperfection.
Unlearn perfection a number of times
Learning from mistakes repeatedly, rejecting the pursuit of perfection.
Just wood un-refurbished sounds more like paradise to me
Preference for the unrefurbished, suggesting a desire for simplicity and authenticity.
Oh, the stones'll start talking, bad weathers a sign
Anticipating challenges represented by talking stones and the ominous sign of bad weather.
Hunters and robbers that drip blood in fall time
Reference to violent figures (hunters and robbers) during the fall season.
Glow star told me, "Better run while the earth holds this heat"
Advice from a celestial entity (glow star) to escape while conditions are favorable.
Well, come out in the night
Encouragement to gather in the night with a sense of community, emphasizing unity and joy.
Everybody we know
-We'll be laughing and singing
-And there won't be no fighting
-Well come out in the night
-Where all the lasers are firing
-And our babies are gurgling
-And our elders are wobbly
-We're not going underground
Discussion about resistance to going underground, possibly metaphorical for avoiding conformity or suppression.
Are you going underground?
-I'm not going underground
-But their light and the pressure is pushing me down
-Are you going underground?
-I'm not going underground
-But we say get to it, just to make the sound
-Are you going underground?
-I'm not going underground
-We're not going underground
-Are you going underground?
-I'm not going underground now
-Cobwebs! Cobwebs!
Repeated mention of cobwebs as a metaphor for entanglement, loss of home, and restricted freedom.
They took my home, I'm in disoriented glee
-Cobwebs! Cobwebs!
-They blocked the path that was connecting you and me
-Cobwebs! Cobwebs!
-It's a sticky case the more I move the less I'm free
-Ever since I was a boy I found new ways to view my porridge
Reflection on diverse perspectives since childhood, comparing them to the organic nature of strawberry meat.
Sometimes electric, organic like strawberry meat
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