Glass Animals - Exxus (Official Audio)

‘dreamland IRL’ is out. it’s about revisiting all the things we couldn’t do when we first released the album, now we can actually be with you all. and finally making more LPs/CDs/other stuff after being sold out for so long due to global pancake (sorry)
 
 
and for everyone that has tickets to our dreamland IRL shows in london and Brooklyn: we can’t wait :)
 
 

Glass Animals - Exxus (Official Audio)

Lyrics

When you see him look him in the eye
Look him in the eye and he won’t dare to follow
If you need to, hook him with your right
Hook him with your right till he wiggles and wallows

He sleeps atop a bag of raven’s legs
Curled up rats napping by his head
Takes his eye out with a ball point pen
And makes nunchaku with his torn off legs

You wake up with a hatchet over your head
You wake up with a hatchet over your head

I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye
I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye

Open your eyes choking on his breath
Choking on his breath you grimace then smile
Take a toke of his wet cigarette
He picks your brains
You stub it on his chest

Slit his tongue with one fast hand
Stuff his mouth with the salty sand
Tie his arms with hair from his head
And roll him round like a rusty can

You wake up with a hatchet over your head
You wake up with a hatchet over your head

I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye
I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye

#GlassAnimals

[morganpenny]

I have no fucking idea what this dudes singing about but trippy as shit.

[ToastyGamer]

Watched this whilst really stoned yesterday. I have never been so scared in my life.

[phat]

This song makes me feel like I'm trapped in a jungle with a murderer

[Emma-reth]

I LOVE the fungus motif. For a song about death, it’s very fitting to have everything that shows on the screen eventually decay and become food for fungus to eat away at.

[anonymouse]

When I hear these types of glass animals songs, I feel like I am on the Earth that existed billions of years ago, when the first life-forms were just beginning to form through the random combinations of the universe

[playsaboutmycat]

From Reddit
“As with Psylla, Exxus is a genus of an insect, but this time an earthworm. Earthworms dig deep into the ground like we do to bury our dead, which is what the song is about. Earthworms also decompose the dead, and the word sounds oddly familiar to the word exit, but like with all B.Z. songs, we will probably never find out exactly what the word Exxus was actually intended to mean. The narrator of the song is death itself, the song portraying death as a character. He is taunting someone the entire song with lines like, "I can see you running, " but never letting them forget that they can be, "Gone in the blink of (his) eye." There are also lines alluding to the character of death, like "You wake up with a hatched over your head, " referring to the common presence of a scythe when death is portrayed as a character. Other visuals they add are ravens and rats, more common things to think of when you try to visualize death as a character. For the music video, they had stop-motion artist Rafael Bonilla Jr. make a stunning visual of the song.”

[peterspeeder]

It’s still hard to believe that this is the same band that wrote Heat Waves. Their sound has changed so much.

[ashleyvillagrez]

Glass animal always put me at ease, no matter how stressed out, their beats have a hypnotic tone to make you just want to sit back and enjoy the product they´ve created.

[Dexter-Draws]

[Verse 1]
When you see him look him in the eye
Look him in the eye and he won’t dare to follow
If you need to, hook him with your right
Hook him with your right till he wiggles and wallows

[Verse 2]
He sleeps atop a bag of raven’s legs
Curled up rats napping by his head
Takes his eye out with a ball point pen
And makes nunchaku with his torn off legs

[Pre-Chorus]
You wake up with a hatchet over your head
You wake up with a hatchet over your head

[Chorus]
I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye
I can see you running
I can see you running
Gone in the blink of my eye
Gone gone gone in the blink of my eye

[Verse 3]
Open your eyes choking on his breath
Choking on his breath you grimace then smile
Take a toke of his wet cigarette
He picks your brains
You stub it on his chest

[Verse 4]
Slit his tongue with one fast hand
Stuff his mouth with the salty sand
Tie his arms with hair from his head
And roll him round like a rusty can

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

((Look him in the eye))

[kylaaag]

Glass Animals is apart of my daily routine.
I wake up and listen to them
Go to sleep listening to them

[isabely.]

I'm watching all this figures and colors with such fascination that I get lost in its magic. It's hard to believe that all of this was made by a human being, and the only thing that reminds me that fact, are the fingerprints on the clay.

The voice, the sounds, the atmosphere are simply amazing. It's the greatest music that I've ever listened to. I wish I had the correct grammar to express the ethereal effect that it has on me... Language barrier...

[cheezepizza]

Does anyone have lyrics to this because it sounds so friendly but it also sound like something murderous is going on...

[moonveins]

This is like a train crash, horrifying but you can't look away

[xUschiliciousx]

My great taste in music brought me here

[shitheadofficial]

Let's pray they drop their pop shtick and return to the good shit one day

[gab]

I have heard this song a 1000 times and more, it doesn't get boring, but the part from 1:40 somehow always feels like when I've heard it for the first time; it's incredibly magical and somehow very soothing.

[a.m.]

I love how music can can completely change your mood, I love how eerie this is

[jrggy]

this song never fails to give me goosebumps everytime

[adithemighty]

1:40 the tune is one of the best I have ever heard in my life. THANK YOU for such an artistic brilliance.

[alaneasable]

The Blacklist brought me here. Great show. Great choice of music.