More songs by Of Monsters and Men
Description
Sometimes relationships are like a strange game on a tightrope: everything seems to be holding together, but one wrong step and it's no longer clear who is saving whom and who is pulling whom down. Everything is like a half-dream: whispered conversations on the stairs, resentments wrapped in tenderness, and attempts to understand where ‘we’ ends and ‘I’ begins.
It sounds like an internal dialogue between two creatures from different worlds - a rabbit and a reptile, warmth and cold, the desire for closeness and the fear of being caught. A fragile balance between a bite and a kiss. And somewhere in the middle of it all - a flying fox hanging upside down and pretending not to wait for dawn.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Sleeping in the silo
Talkin' in the stairs
How to get away from here? How to be a tender man?
Walkin' on a tight rope
Funny little game
How to skip past the stream? How to climb the olive tree?
I know something you don't know
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
A sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
See you on a red eye
Funny little game
How to make you disappear? How to make you reappear?
I'll be softer like your mother
Olive in the stream
You look like a portrait of your dad
I know something you don't know
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
Sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
I feel something you don't seem to feel
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
Sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight, mmm
Hm, hm
Mmm
I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight, ah
Hmm
Hmm, hmm
Hm, hm, hm
Hm, hm, hm
Hm, hm, hm
English translation
Sleeping in the silo
Talkin' in the stairs
How to get away from here? How to be a tender man?
Walkin' on a tight rope
Funny little game
How to skip past the stream? How to climb the olive tree?
I know something you don't know
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
A sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
See you on a red eye
Funny little game
How to make you disappear? How to make you reappear?
I'll be softer like your mother
Olive in the stream
You look like a portrait of your dad
I know something you don't know
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
Sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
I feel something you don't seem to feel
Somehow in the dead of night, we're like bunny and the reptile
I need something you don't seem to need
Sweeter goodbye, I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight
I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight, mmm
Hm, hm
Mmm
I'm like a fruit bat hangin' tight, ah
Hmm
Hmm, hmm
Hm, hm, hm
Hm, hm, hm
Hm, hm, hm