Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

Album: Fleet Foxes (2008)
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  • Wanderers this morning came by
    Where did they go
    Graceful in the morning light
    To banner fair
    To follow you softly
    In the cold mountain air

    Through the forest
    Down to your grave
    Where the birds wait
    And the tall grasses wave
    They do not
    Know you anymore

    More, more, more

    Dear shadow alive and well
    How can the body die
    You tell me everything
    Anything true

    In the town one morning I went
    Staggering through premonitions of my death
    I don't see anybody that dear to me

    Dear shadow alive and well
    How can the body die
    You tell me everything
    Anything true

    Jesse
    I don't know what I have done
    I'm turning myself to a demon
    I don't know what I have done
    I'm turning myself to a demon Writer/s: Robin Pecknold
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Alice Stelfox from Kendal, United KingdomWhen was he in the Lake district, come back please..
  • Bill from Atlanta, GaWOW ! his voice has a quality that is unique and passionate...
  • Justin from Roseville, CaBeautiful, haunting melody, especially in the first half of the song. Can't help but imagine taking a stroll through the forest and coming across a fair maiden, or knights on horseback. I can't wait to hear more from this band...
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