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ingydar
Adrianne Lenker
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For GQ, Lenker said: Ingydar was the name of my great-aunt
Becky’s horse, who passed away when I…
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ingydar Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Fragilely, gradually and surrounding
The horse lies naked in the shed
Evergreen anodyne decompounding
Flies draw sugar from his head
[Pre-Chorus]
His eyes are blueberries, video screens,
Minneapolis schemes
And the dried flowers from books half-read
The juice of dark cherries cover his chin
The dog walks in and the crow lies in his jaw
like lead
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[Chorus]
Everything eats and is eaten
Time is fed
[Verse 2]
Early еvening, the pink ring swallows
The sphеrical marigold terrain
Sleepily, Venus sinks and hollows
The stationed headlight of a plane
[Pre-Chorus]
You are as far from me as memory
With fixtures fracture varyingly
The juice of dark cherries cover my skin
Six years in, no baby
[Chorus]
Everything eats and is eaten
[Verse 3]
Ingydar bares a scar like a meteor
Crystalline amber guilds her cheek
Tambourine of the beech leaves lead her
To the raven playing hide and seek
[Pre-Chorus]
Drying blueberries, figurines
And the angel leans at the head of the bed
The juice of dark cherries cover her chin
The dog walks in and the crow lies in his smile
like lead
[Chorus]
Everything eats and is eaten, time is fed
Everything eats and is eaten
Everything eats and is eaten
Everything eats and is eaten
Everything eats and is eaten
Everything eats and is eaten
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For GQ, Lenker said:
Ingydar was the name of my great-aunt Becky’s
horse, who passed away when I was a kid. But
the song itself, I have to say, it isn’t really about
that horse. That was just a fragment from the
pool of ideas, or colors that I wove into the song,
but yeah. “Everything eats and is eaten / Time is
fed.” Have you ever used a vacuum cleaner, and
there’s a button that sucks the cord back in?
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ingydar"?
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“ Iswallowed
was imagining everything being
by the mouth of time, and
just the cyclical-ness of everything
feeding off of everything else. It’s like
the simple example of a body
decomposing and going into the dirt,
and then the worm eating the dirt, and
the bird eating the worm, and then the
hawk or the cat eating the bird. As
something is dying, something is
feeding off of that thing. We’re
simultaneously being born and
decaying, and that is always so
bewildering to me. The duality of
sadness and joy make so much sense in
that light. Feeling deep joy and laughter
is similar to feeling like sadness in a way
and crying. Like that Joni Mitchell line,
‘Laughing and crying, it’s the same
release.’
–via Apple Music
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songs (2020)
Adrianne Lenker
1. two reverse 7. come
2. ingydar 8. zombie girl
3. anything 9. not a lot, just forever
4. forwards beckon 10. dragon eyes
rebound
11. my angel
5. heavy focus
red leaves, falling
6. half return
Credits
Producers Writer
Phil Weinrobe & Adrianne Adrianne Lenker
Lenker
Label Mastering Engineer
4AD Scott Hull (Mastering
Engineer)
Mixing Engineer Released on
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