Grown Ocean

Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues [2011]

In that dream I'm as old as the mountains

Still is starlight reflected in fountains

Children grown on the edge of the ocean

Kept like jewelry, kept with devotion



In that dream moving slow through the morning



You would come to me then without answers

Lick my wounds and remove my demands for now

Eucalyptus and orange trees are blooming

In that dream there's no darkness a-looming



In that dream moving slow through the morning time



In that dream I could hardly contain it

All my life I will wait to attain it

There, there, there



I know someday the smoke will all burn off

All these voices I'll someday have turned off

I will see you someday when I've woken

I'll be so happy just to have spoken

I'll have so much to tell you about it



In that dream I could hardly contain it

All my life I will wait to attain it

There, there, there



Wide-eyed walker, don't betray me

I will wake one day, don't delay me

Wide-eyed leaver, always going