Big Thief - UFOF Lyrics

So underrated it hurts

Album in my collection, best regards!

I very much hear Radiohead in this.

My fav from🇯🇵

Beatiful song! It reminds me of youth lagoon

very Radiohead but more fragile yet resilient

Dr.Who is the biggest

I just found you all today after serendipity put you on while I was watching clips of Stephen Colbert and I have already heard this song about 7 times. Kinda addicted. And funny this is the song I would like more than Not which is why I went looking for you in the first place. I have been visited also. And just like you I haven’t seen them in a while. Just read the lyrics and I was like oh of course lol

My favorite line: “our love it isn’t even a fraction “

Amazing.

Btw mine were the Andromedans. Maybe one day they will come rescue us.

Prateek kuhad brought me here

Same here!

This song is, and always will be way the fuck under rated. My good god.

Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Decks Dark, Subterranean Homesick Alien

radiohead collab when

The Best Album of 2019

The band fits her perfectly I'm so happy I accidentally found them the song Orange rips my heart out how a summer can be remembered by a 3 minute song

Heard them for the first time on, National Radio NZ.

Such a perfect, beautiful song.

Hola...

This is my favourite song at the moment. It's so beautiful.

Glad they put this out so early so we didn't have to hem and haw about the best song of 2019 for 12 months

When you're coming back from the Area 51 raid and need a proper tribute song to your fallen comrades.

Just asking for a friend at work but does anybody else hear Aldous Harding?

This is what I will be listening to when we raid Area 51 in September

Yeah how'd that go by the way knuckleheads

This song makes me feel high without taking drugs or alcohol...

Please may you visit Tampa Bay Florida? I need to experience this live propped up on a speaker.

Big Thief - UFOF (Lyrics) (sub.español) https://youtu.be/qiy2puS0L_U

Heynong Man.

I wasn't really a Big Thief fan although I enjoyed their last albums. Then they released this which is hands down a masterpiece, one that only comes along once in awhile. It's the kind of album that takes a band onto a whole new playing field. Consider me blown away. Also, its worth having it digitally and physically on vinyl. They are completely different listening experiences. Digitally, you are able to hear all the background noise and intricacies while on vinyl, it brings out a warmth that is fantastic.

Ace - heard this first on a magazine compilation and it was shared today on the Book of Faces The Blue Nile group (Sunday other tracks)...

best band i've heard in years. un. believable

[Verse 1]
To my UFO friend
Goodbye, goodbye
Like a seed in the wind
She's taking up root in the sky
See her flickering
Her system won't even try
To defend and ripen
In the radio action

[Verse 2]
She'll never return again
Polarize, polarize
The seasons will bend
There will soon be proof
That there is no alien
Just a system of truth and lies
The reason, the language
And the law of attraction

[Chorus]
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

[Verse 3]
Switch to another lens
The last sunlight
I don't need any other friends
The best kiss I ever had is the flickering
Of the water so clear and bright
To leap in, my skin
And I could feel the reaction

[Chorus]
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

this is wanna hear. forever.

Why can't I stop listening to this song? No, really. Pls send help.

Still need rescue, if anyone knows!

This is good!

Good,good,good very good

What is the fingerpicking pattern on this song? So elusive.

Dang. On a compositional level this just makes all other modern folk or rock just seem lazy. The verses and chorus are BOTH fully non repeating phrases. That would mean very little if it all didn't hit the mark on every other level.
There are so few songs that I want to listen to 10 times in a row. This record is fabulous.

Dan Adams Fucking astounding songwriting

Dan Adams good I’m not the only one that put it on repeat. There is a melody when she sings the last verse that just feels like heaven. Those notes together feel like a memory of something I cannot put my finger on.

Mmmmmmusic! How warm and comfortable I feel listening to this. Huge fan and am so happy I stumbled upon your music on Tiny Desk. you're grrrrrreeeaattt!

Reminds me of mgmt for some reason

What have I just listened to? I am mesmerized! Thank you for this precious gift

In the picture above it looks like they're having a pretty shit picnic

What a great album

I think there are people who hate life that just go around giving out "dislikes" on youtube all day.

Status : LEGENDARY

it's like 23 from blonde redhead

was scrolling through the comments to see if others heard the similarity. this song is very blonde redhead-esque and gainsbourg-esque. which is a good thing in my books.

Sorry, but this is so much better. As a fan of blond redhead 23, I feel that I can weigh in.

Marvelous!

God damn this is gorgeous!!! Melody, lyrics, drum part, guitars... all add up to perfection!!!

I am absolutely stunned. The world just became so much more worthwhile with this song in my head. Thanks for the inspiration y’all!!

You Can’t Trust Pitchfork and their reviews, Run by SJW’s propped up by the Big Record Companies. My Review of this Garbage Album,. While the first half of this album is all but completely unlistenable, if you stick with it the songs on the back half range from horrendous to merely awful. This is not art. This is often not even music. This is pure pretentiousness by a bunch of pretenders pertaining to understand folk music. This is a lost cause of a band who have lost their way how to connect with the audience. Collapse

Word salad from a sad alt-Right lost cause of a human. Prove me wrong, bud...surely you're better than this.

Dangermoose2000 my taste in music has progressed from the toilet bowl unlike yours buddy

I don't five a try at first because I was thinking this would be another punk band who takes IT to seriously. I just listen and is jawdroppin, is like those 90s songs who were tender and nice and quite familiar, but sounding Like something fresh, vital and inmediat. This make realize the importance of the place I am.

This is just gorgeous- I’m getting lots off Kate Bush vibes on the voice

Me too!

This song is a total trip.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!! WOOOO!!!

Long live 4AD

Coming from the world of metal, this is an amazing, beautiful song

These chord progressions make me feel things.

Anybody getting a smidgen of Radiohead's decks dark vibe from this song?

Agreed. However in this song I get closer vibes of Alt j Sigur ros and Daughters rather than Radiohead...but yes..This song It's great I'm looping around it

I hate when people compare a band with Radiohead. It ruins it.

Must be something there; this track and Decks Dark are my favorites.

@Richard Rice lmao Richard rice is an internet baby for sure

@Hermit the Log Grandpa baby.

This is incredible on so many levels...

I only knew adirennes solo work, was super pleased to find this band

Another amazing song

To my UFO friend
Goodbye, goodbye
Like a seed in the wind
She's taking up root in the sky
See her flickering
Her system won't even try
To defend and ripen
In the radio action

She'll never return again
Polarize, polarize
The seasons will bend
There will soon be proof
That there is no alien
Just a system of truth and lies
The reason, the language
And the law of attraction

Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

Switch to another lens
The last sunlight
I don't need any other friends
The best kiss I ever had
Is the flickering
Of the water so clear and bright
To leap in, my skin
And I could feel the reaction

Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear
Another map turns blue
Mirror on mirror
And I imagine you
Taking me outta here
To deepen our love
It isn't even a fraction

Congratulations, Big Thief; very nice!

This band has really upped their game with this new stuff. Singer is coming into her own and the musical choices are getting sophisticated.

Unidentified Flying Object Friend

I wonder if the band reads comments. Probably not. Either way this is some beautiful writing and something that will stand the test of time.

Big Radiohead vibes but still original. I love it.

Heard this song today. BIG FAN

Heard for the first time today and fell in love with it. Nice playing, singing and a sick ass chord change.

This is actual “indie” in that it really is independent of current trend

current trend is and has been chorus heavy music. the chorus is repeated 3 times, its terribly adherent to musical trends.

this is my new favorate song. and I'm only a kid

wow u r cool

Coolest kid I know...

Quality. Beauty tune.

4AD ...

Great sound, can't wait for the new album 🤘

Beautiful!

Oh the song 😍

This is such a beautiful song.

Her whisper voice is appealing to me

A very nice song, but... it sounds a bit like Radiohead's "Decks Dark"! I mean the first phrases of these two songs are really similar.

Around this time one year ago, I met a sweet little old lady on a Norwegian cruise in the Caribbean. She had over heard me and my friend talking about new music, and she asked if either of us liked folk rock or indie music. I told her that I did and she said that I should check out her granddaughter's band, Big Theif. I answered that I would give the band a listen, and I'm glad that I did.

This band has a really awesome sound, and Adrianne Lenker has a really cool grandmother.

To be honest, I'm actually glad I came across the band. Some pretty cool songs.

sweetest

Peter Wolff that is so cool

Now she has a Grammy Nomination 😅

@Srijit Mukherjee It was a Granny Nomination after all.

magical song. can’t get enough!

Collapse Garbage Band

Is just me but I am experiencing an early Kate Bush deja vu

Yeah, there is something of Kate's style here. Hey were these guys even born when Kate Bush was in the charts lol :)

Different experiences.

yep. lovely, loose & lo-fi. x

Just like a bad dream
You'll disappear

Mirror on mirror 😢

I just found this through Stereogum and love it. The lyrics remind me of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."

It's on replay for days. I'm addicted to this song and I cannot wait for this album

🧨🧨🧨😍😍😍 on repeat! (From Paris)

Yes be inspired by Kate Bush but please try not to copy her..

excited for a new album

heard this on KRBX yesterday! so good

The drumming is a bit off it just don't seem to cut it. i prefer the old drummer they used to have.

probably my favorite band right now, everything they do is magical (+ adrianne's solo records are also insanely beautiful)

I'm getting Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins feels

"UFOF" debuted at #5 on the New Alternative 40 Chart this week!

Just pre-ordered the album!!!!