I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar lyrics

[Sixth floor, alone]1

I am all that I need

And I'll be, till I'm through

And I'm light on my feet

Good to be without you

Distant light, distant dancer

Mute at midnight, she might look like the answer

But I'm all that I need

[The band kicks the loner off the stage]

[Into the city]

So, it's true I've gone too far to find you

And the thumbprint scar I let define you

Was a myth I made you measure up to

It was all just water, winding by you

And the basking, gnashing, foaling, feeding

And the rising, falling, melting, freezing

And the raising for destroying feeling

(All we do, this repeats)

You've got all you need on me

And now I see that it's all corroding

Soonest seething, soonest folding

But the night won't last if you just hold fast, calm down

(I'm hardly made of steel)

Tell me, are you so concealed?

(Can't I just go to sleep?)

You're no more so blind to me

[Exit out of the city]

[Now memory]

“Are you alone?

I don't believe you

Are you at home? I'll come right now

I need to see you”

Thin as a shim and Scottish pale

Bright white light like a bridal veil

"I don't need you"

[Cut to chewed-through finger nails]

[Out of memory]

I was a child in the ivy then

I never knew you, you knew me

Not like you knew me

Off on the other ocean now

All is behind you, all is sea

[Back into the city]

[At the edge of the ocean]

1. The parts in brackets and italics are not spoken/sung words, but are part of the official lyrics from the lyric booklet. This song begins where the last song of the last album ends (its first notes continue the last notes of "Grown Ocean") and this album tells a story, so these function like scene headings in a screenplay and give additional information and context to the lyrics. The story is continued in the next song, "Cassius,-"

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