Big Thief - Incomprehensible (Official Lyric Video)

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'Incomprehensible' taken from 'Double Infinity' out 5th September, via 4AD.

Big Thief is Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek & James Krivchenia

Album cover photo by Bobby Doherty

Artwork concept by Adrianne Lenker, Millie Minshall, Molly Styslinger, Sarah Schiesser

Lyrics:

Incomprehensible, incomprehensible

Incomprehensible, let me be

Highway 17

Cotton candy rain

Driving with my lover

We missed our plane

So we added on the hours

To see the lupine flowers

Way up past the border

We blew through Thunder Bay

The pine trees are narrow

A billion broken arrows

The ravens and the crows

Robins and the sparrows

All across Ontario, static on the stereo

Went swimming in the lake–Old Woman Bay

Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid

Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid

Full of broken gadgets that mean nothing now

The only thing I’ll keep are the letters

And the photographs

In two days it's my birthday and I’ll be 33

That doesn’t really matter next to eternity

But I like a double number, and I like an odd one too

And everything I see from now on will be something new

I’m afraid of getting older, that’s what I’ve learned to say

Society has given me the words to think that way

The message spirals, don’t get saggy, don’t get gray

But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder

My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too

Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew

And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue

How can beauty that is living be anything but true?

So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair

Let me dance in front of people without a care

Let me be naked alone, with nobody there

With mis-matched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear

Incomprehensible, let me be

Incomprehensible, let me be

Incomprehensible, let me be