We were standing at forsyth and bowery
Flowers and painted foreheads trying to forget
Can't tell if the ceiling is rising
Or if the floor is falling down.
I remember sunrise without sleep
God-like and cowering
Taller, stacks of stones is all I have to show
I can't tell if the ceiling is rising
Or if the floor is falling down
At the time I wasn't with you, by the time I didn't care
At the time I wasn't with you, by the time I didn't care
Falling so much faster than you and I could ever climb
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Can't tell if the ceiling is rising/Or if the floor is falling down
There’s a lot of ambiguity in “Bowery,” which in many ways embodies the larger concept behind Hummingbird. For Local Natives it’s the transitory emotions between love and hate that ring true to them. And closing out with a song like so bookends what is a fearless outpouring of those complex abstractions.
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