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by Animal Collective


This is how its played on the album.


"Unsolved Mysteries"



               




Oh look at me
     
That sweet boy's plea
    
His mother cried
                   
"My child's tied his laces"
    
Why must we move on
     
From such happy lawns
        
Into nostalgia's palm
              
And feed on the traces


       
We all hop to the dance
     
Or embarrass the parents
           
Who should have knees
               
That go to sleep worrying

     
That blood in the dark
       
Will attract the sharks
            
Who are not violent
                 
We all have hungry bellies


                  
But I feel like I've got to duck
                         
When you look at me with your brown eyes
                         
When you look at me with your blue eyes
                        
And you look at me with the inner eye


    
And all was tame
                     
And all was daggers anyway
                 
Stop crying like a child
    
And all was green
                   
And all was aging anyway
                  
Stop growing in the wild



But I feel like I've got to duck
When you look at me with your green eyes
When you look at me with your black eyes
And you look at me with your dead eyes

And I can understand
When holding her hand
So womanly
I have to go and kiss her

And what a surprise
To look in those eyes
And find suddenly
He is Jack the Ripper
Too suddenly, he was Jack the Ripper

Stop crying like a child
She stopped crying like a child
Jack the Ripper