It’s so much better in the sunlight. I’m just a little mirage.
-Fleet Foxes, Anyone Who’s Anyone

If to borrow is to take and not return, I have borrowed all my lonesome life. And I can’t, no I can’t get through. The borrower’s debt is the only regret of my youth.
-Fleet Foxes, Bedouin Dress

What makes me love you despite the reservations? What do I see in your eyes besides my reflection hanging high?
-Fleet Foxes, Sim Sala Bim

Just as the sand made everything round, just as the tar seeps up from the ground- bitter dancer ever turning, so was the day that you came to town.
-Fleet Foxes, The Plains / Bitter Dancer

I should have known one day you would come. All of us walk so blind in the sun. Midnight feeder, beggar pleader. I should had known one day you would come.
-Fleet Foxes, The Plains / Bitter Dancer

Tell me again my only son. Tell me again what have you done.
-Fleet Foxes, The Plains / Bitter Dancer

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see. And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me.
-Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues

If I know only one thing, it’s that everything that I see of the world outside is so inconceivable, often I barely can speak. Yeah I’m tongue-tied and dizzy and I can’t keep it to myself. What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?
-Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues

If I had an orchard, I’d work till I’m raw. If I had an orchard, I’d work till I’m sore. And you would wait tables and soon run the store.
-Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues

I know someday the smoke will all burn off. All these voices I’ll someday have turned off. I will see you someday when I’ve woken. I’ll be so happy just to have spoken. I’ll have so much to tell you about it.
-Fleet Foxes, Grown Ocean

Why in the night sky are the lights hung? Why is the earth moving round the sun, floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one? Why in the night sky are the lights hung?
-Fleet Foxes, Blue Spotted Tail

Why is life made only for to end? Why do I do all this waiting then? Why this frightened part of me that’s fated to pretend? Why is life made only for to end?
-Fleet Foxes, Blue Spotted Tail

After all is said and after all is done, God only knows which of them I’ll become.
-Fleet Foxes, Someone You’d Admire

I’m not one to ever pray for mercy or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine. But that day you know I left my money. And I thought of you only. All that copper glowing fine. And I wonder what become of you. What became of you?
-Fleet Foxes, The Shrine / An Argument

So guess I got old. I was like trash on the sidewalk. I guess I knew why often it’s hard to just sweet talk.
-Fleet Foxes, Lorelai

I don’t even miss you at all.
-Fleet Foxes, Isles