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Anda my love, wake up to your window, the day calls in billows
It's echoing moonlight onto the blue nightmare of your heart
In cozy red rainbow, it's shaking off halos
And the memory of our sacred so and so

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  • gopherstepcut

    wow stunner !

    11 Apr 4:53am Reply
  • ohh1972

    Best I've heard of them so far. <3

    13 Feb 5:23pm Reply
  • CapnJasbo

    This is one of those bands that definitely got better with time. Not all "underground" stuff is good. TVOTR is like fine wine.

    16 Nov 2012 Reply
  • MabeSpektor

    For me, the most beautiful song ever written.

    20 Aug 2012 Reply
  • tastethemagic

    Calming

    8 Jul 2012 Reply
  • theholybibles

    This song is painfully fucking beautiful and it sounds like the soundtrack to a Wes Anderson movie that hasn't been made yet.

    9 Jun 2012 Reply
  • denise2105

    oh this is good. I wasn't sure about this band but god this song is quite something

    23 Apr 2012 Reply
  • readaryan

    I miss her...............................................

    10 Apr 2012 Reply
  • shadwell420

    Love this band!

    29 Feb 2012 Reply
  • Cozmofish

    this song makes me miss so many things.

    12 Feb 2012 Reply
  • Churumbela

    @Turner_Ound -- I've always interpreted the song to be about a relationship that is considered to be wrong or inappropriate by the partner's family -- "in the shadow of your family tree" and "pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young" seem particularly evocative of this idea. Could be for religious, racial, any number of reasons. An interview given by Tunde to A/V Club said something similar.

    13 Oct 2011 Reply
  • Turner_Ound

    :-) you guys crack me up. But seriously, you know something they don't- what is it talking about?

    4 Oct 2011 Reply
  • Churumbela

    @hotterthanjuly -- maybe the people who want to use it as a wedding song don't like their families all that much. ;)

    8 Aug 2011 Reply
  • Nuges

    Family tree: past, present and future….branches

    15 Jul 2011 Reply
  • silvasonicsurfa

    ..........gorgeous!..........

    13 Jul 2011 Reply
  • Estebanito

    I can't give these kids enough love. woot! <3 homeys

    6 Jul 2011 Reply
  • aaacerbic

    in the spirit of this song: Hinnom, TX by Bon Iver

    4 Jul 2011 Reply
  • newage08

    the most beautiful song in the world

    28 May 2011 Reply
  • drzen71

    RIP Gerard Smith, Brilliant! thank you for the great music you made with these guys>>

    10 May 2011 Reply
  • f_k_o_s

    Pretty much perfect. My favourite TVOTR track -.-

    1 May 2011 Reply
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