If You Need To, Keep Time on Me lyrics

[January 20, 2017]1  

How could it all fall in one day?

Were we too sure of the sun?

If you need to, keep time on me.

If you need to, keep time on me.

Who knows what State is in store?

If they all turn, will you run?

If you need to, keep time on me.

If you need to, keep time on me.

When I need to, I'll keep time on you.

Wide / white2 oceans roar

A frightened fool stokes

heedless / heatless2 fire.

But if you need to, keep time on me.

If you need to, keep time on me.

How could it all fall in one day?

Were we too sure of the sun?

If you need to, keep time on me.

1. The part in brackets is not sung, but it appears in the official lyrics from the lyric booklet. This album tells a story, so it functions like scene headings in a screenplay and gives additional information and context to the lyrics. This song is a continuation of "Third of May / Ōdaigahara" and the story is continued in the next song, "Mearcstapa."2. a. b. This is written exactly as it appears in the lyric booklet, which likely means that both meanings of the words are meant even though there's no difference between the sound of the words when spoken.

• Artist:Fleet Foxes
• Album:Crack-Up (2017)