Wading in Waist-High Water Quotes

“So much of songwriting hinges on finding new, defamiliarizing ways to express very familiar sentiments, in hopes of being able to reach ears that may be inoculated to true but tired clichés.”
― Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

“Life unfolds in pools of gold
I am only owed this shape if I make a line to hold
To he held within one's self is deathlike, oh I know”
― Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

“Night ended the fight, but the song remained
And so I headed to the wall
Turned tail to call to the new domain
As if in the sight of sea, you're suddenly free
But it's all the same
Oh, but I can hear you, loud in the center
Aren't we made to be crowded together, like leaves??”
― Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

“Who stole the life from you?
Who turned you so against you?”
― Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

“I was a child in the ivy then
I never knew you, you knew me
Not like you knew me
Off on the other ocean, now
All is behind you, all is sea”
― Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

“The speakers are not merely delivering abstract notions of life; they move among particular forests at particular times of the day and year.”
― Brandon Taylor, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes