Saturday December 26, 2020 “Can I Believe You” Fleet Foxes
This song has been getting a lot of airplay on the radio stations that I tend to spend time with and I heard one of the DJs announce it as “a perfectly beautiful song”, and I completely agree with that.
Fleet Foxes is American indie folk band formed in Seattle, WA in 2006. The band consists of Robin Pecknold (vocals, guitar), Skyler Skjelset (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Casey Wescott (keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals), Christian Wargo (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and Morgan Henderson (upright bass, guitar, woodwinds, violin, percussion, saxophone).
Founding member, lead singer and principal songwriter David Pecknold said of the current touring conditions, that it was weird not being able to tour and perform their new material on “Shore” which contains today’s song but, he added “That’s just the way it is. The record is just the record. That feels really great.”
Here’s a live version performed at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a collective of more than 60 women who join together to breathe their joy and voices into this song.
Stay safe and well...and yeah I don’t really understand the lyrics but I still love listening to this song.
Can I believe you?
Can I believe you?
Can I ever know your mind?
Am I handing you mine?
Do we both confide?
I see it, eat through every word I sow
See what you need to, do you doubt it's yours?
Now I'm learning the ropes, never get this close
I've been wounded before
Hasn't let me go
It never got less strange, showing anyone just a bare face
If I don't, well, nothing will change
Staying under my weather all day
Can I believe you when you say I'm good?
I didn't need to when I wished you would
No it isn't enough
Never held that much
Now another way up
Been a row too rough
It never got less strange, showing anyone just a bare face
But if I don't, well, nothing will change
Staying under my weather all day
Lately I'm wondering too
What type of desire I can break
When I'm one way with them, one with you
What half is it of me rearranged?
Can I believe you?
Can I believe you?
I want to need you
I want to need you
Can I believe you?
Can I believe you?