Cuckoo Cuckoo

by Animal Collective

From the album: Strawberry Jam

Duration: 05:42

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Lyrics for Cuckoo Cuckoo

(How I lost my boy) (How I lost my boy) The king in I died He kept floating past my eyes Singing his songs Life was good, now death's all wrong Cause you can't feel a thing No heart flutters in the spring You just drift and pray For sun kissed golden days And I can't hold what's in my hand Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned Little kids sliding down the steel park slide Little kids can't play with things that have died Sometimes all I want is one favorite song But two to three minutes doesn't seem that long Where's my mom? I wanna hold her tight She's so far away from crowded nights I'm going cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo We're all goin cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo We're all goin' I said please stay You can see me, don't go away I can't see the landscape Please describe its amaranthine haze It's hard where I am There are people, you're not like them They just look away For rain quenched golden days My tears quench five feet of lawn I just creep I cannot yawn People gonna come and people gonna cry He just woke and ate, and dreamed and died Don't try to erase what you have done Put your fingers in your mouth and kiss it if it wants And where's my friend? I wanna hold him tight He's so far away from mountain lights I'm going cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo I'm going cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo We're all goin' And, I can't hold what's in my hand Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned Little kids sliding down the steel park slide Little kids can't play with things that have died Sometimes all I want is one favorite song But two to three minutes doesn't seem that long Where's my mom? I wanna hold her tight She's so far away from crowded nights I'm going cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo We're all goin cuckoo, cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo We're all goin' (Cuckoo)

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