Stride Rite
by Animal Collective
From the album: Isn't It Now?
Track 7 of 9 on Isn't It Now? (2023).
Duration: 4:53
Lyrics for Stride Rite
Here once again I lie beside you staring through your open heart explaining what I鈥檓 not. Let鈥檚 invite all the songs that we wrote so we鈥檇 know and let them go. And she鈥檚 lying sideways peering through the open blouse, discovering her mother鈥檚 dying heart, and feels safe in the arms she鈥檇 grown old just to know. Then let them go. And this winter鈥檚 sorrow鈥檚 hard I know but we鈥檝e been through worse and back. All in time. Don鈥檛 hide behind. This love is wide. Just take a stride. Might even have to climb. Lost one to cancer, two to sorrow, three by losing patience with the people who we are. Let us tend what鈥檚 not grown. Nothing鈥檚 wrong. Let it go. I know you know. Ride the rise and fall of love鈥檚 repeating answer to the quest of our extraordinary lives. Let us find what we鈥檇 know in the fall of the old. Then let it go. This winter sorrow鈥檚 hard I know but you鈥檝e been through worse and back. All in time. Don鈥檛 hide behind. This love is wide. Just take a stride. Might even have to climb above the walls inside. Look to teachings you鈥檒l find everywhere. From your lover鈥檚 eyes to the loss that makes you cry.