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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Fleet Foxes
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Robin Pecknold
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Robin Pecknold
Producer
Beatriz Artola
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
For Richard Swift, for John and Bill
For every gift lifted far before its will
Judee and Smith, for Berman too
I've met the myth hanging heavy over you
[Verse 2]
I loved you long, you rose to go
Beneath you songs, perfect angels in the snow
So time to stage, forget reserve
The type of great coronation you deserve
[Verse 3]
I'm going out for a weekend
I'm gonna borrow a Martin or Gibson
With Either/Or and The Hex for my bookends
Carrying every text that you've given
[Verse 4]
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American Water with dear friends
Swimming high on a lea in an Eden
Runnin' all of the leads you've been leaving
[Verse 5]
I'm overmatched (For Arthur Russell)
I'm half as wise (Duncan and Curtis)
If this is flat, brother I apologize (Jimi and David, for Nick and Otis)
No one alone (For Bell and Buckley)
Can leave the cave (Marvin and Adam)
And all you've loaned won't be kept inside a grave (For Arthur Russell)
(For Arthur Russell)
[Verse 6]
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American Water with dear friends
Just intending that I will delight them
Swimming high on a lea in Eden
[Verse 7]
So I dream
Dream
So I dream
Dream
[Verse 8]
I'm gonna swim for a week in
Warm American Water with dear friends
Swimming high on a lea in an Eden
Runnin' all of the leads you've been leaving
[Verse 9]
And in your rarified air I feel sunblind
I'm looking up at you there, high in my mind
Only way that I made it for a long time
But I'm loud and alive singing you all night
Night
[Verse 10]
Warm American Water
Written by: Robin Pecknold