I've been listening to the hell out of this song, the final track on the new Grizzly Bear album Shields. The song is called "Sun in Your Eyes," and hearing the lyrics I couldn't help but recall my Salvia experiences. I looked into it and Songfacts explains the origin of the lyrics: Ayahuasca.
The song is incredible, nuanced, beautiful. I cannot stop listening to it. I just wanted to share this song with the lovely crowd here.
"Sun in Your Eyes" on youtubeYou've fallen once, you'll fall again
And lean on
Your tired hands that crawl and grasp
The soft ground
By the look on your face
You set out on a path
Never to arrive
By the look on your face
The burden's on your back
And the sun is in your eyes
Stretched out, far and wide
The light that scorched the sand
So bright, so long
I'm never coming back
And every stone and every step
I won't recall
Emptied out of every thought
Just soft ground
By the look on your face
The burden's on your back
And the sun in your eyes
Gone at last
Stretched out, far and wide
The light that scorched the sand
So bright, so long
I'm never coming back
It overflows, it overflows, it always runs
It overflows, it overflows, it always runs
Silver and silent
Endless abundance overflows
Silver and silent rushing on
Endless abundance overflows
Always surround you, always glows
Oooohhh
Look on your face,
Burden's on your back
Sun is in your eyes
Stretched out, far and wide
The light that scorched the sand
So bright, so long
I'm never coming back
So bright, so long
I'm never coming back