Caribou Filmography

• Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
  2012, role: composer
• The Abattoir
  2008, role: actor , character name: Critter

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Caribou - Pixies
• Eli - Caribou
• Desiree - Caribou
• Crayon - Caribou
• Brahminy Kite - Caribou
• After Hours - Caribou
• Yeti - Caribou
• Sundialing - Caribou
• She's The One - Caribou
• Sandy - Caribou
• Odessa - Caribou
• Niobe - Caribou
• Melody Day (four Tet Remix) - Caribou
• Leave House - Caribou
• Kaili - Caribou
• Jamelia - Caribou
• Irene - Caribou
• Hello Hammerheads - Caribou
• Hannibal - Caribou
• Found Out - Caribou

I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent
Caribou
Repent
Re-pe-ent
Give me white
Ground to run
And foregone
Lets me knife
Knife me lets
I will get
What I like
Caribou
Repent

when she opens her eyes she says she feels better
now she's falling apart and it's all in her mind
___ ___ ___ and soon she opens your letter
when she tries who knows what she will find
when she opens her eyes she says she feels better
she'll push you until she can see you unwind
she will tear you apart just as soon as you let her
when she tries who knows what she will find
she will never know

You told me things would have changed
And now we're back here again
You left me nowhere to start
And watch me falling apart
There's nothing left I can say
To stop it ending this way
I think you wanted me here
To watch it all disappear
Desiree, my mind's made up
Desiree, this can't go on
Desiree, my mind's made up
Desiree, you know we're not young
Desiree, my mind's made up
Desiree, this can't go on
Desiree, my mind's made up

hehehehe
(dogs barking)
Start things with another yawn
Once again we start the day
Gotta go out and get the time just gotta find somethin'
to do.
dana na na nara na
Don't know what I should do but I just want to get away.
data ta ta ra ta tata tata tara ñaña

And I'm
Descending all the time
Pretending all the time
Pretending to be free
And I'm
Ascending all the time
Descending all the time
Intending to be free
And I'm
Spending all the time
Ascending all the time
Pretending to be me
(instrumental moments)
And I'm
Descending all the time
Pretending all the time
Pretending to be free
And I'm
Ascending all the time
Descending all the time
Intending to be free
And I'm
Spending all the time
Ascending all the time

And you and I will follow down the street
And when the rivers end into the sea
While I remember what you mean to me
And you and I, a spiral spinning round
And standing in a circle on the ground
I'll follow you until you wear me out
And in your summer and in the air
Have you forgotten how you got us here?
While I remember how much I care
And in a dream I'm trying to forget
I feel the blood that rushes to my head
I need your love and all the things you've said
And in the leaves
And in my mind
You're always there
And in the leaves
And in my mind

His greasy fingers strung together and stretching 'cross
the sky
A skunk that scratches and is leather a sign from up on
high
And shivering we cling together and watch it pass us by
For falling like a spiny feather the tears begin to cry.
Twisting turning, bodies burning look up from where they
To see the stars and heaven's journey flashing 'cross the
You hold my arm and wait forever and look me in the eye
For falling like a spiny feather the tears begin to cry.
His greasy fingers strung together and stretching cross
the sky
A skunk that scratches and is leather a sign from up on
high
And shivering we cling together and watch it pass us by

Of pictures and of promises
An arrow drawn in time
That's pointing to me standing here
With your words on my mind
And every night I dream of you
While lying in my bed
And ever since I was a boy
keeps running through my head
(Promises, promises, promises, promises)
And when we meet
My mind is making promises of you
And when you go, I know you know

Call her thief, call her shallow and insincere
'Cause you'll never see just how perfect she could be
Then she's gone and my friends could come along
And they tell me that I'm happier
One more fight, yeah, you tell me all the time
How do I swallow my pride?
But she's the one, she's the one
But she's the one, she's the one
Time and time I hear things that can't be true
And it's only talk 'cause she'll never be so cruel
Every night there's a new name on her mind
That I don't think I recognize
And it's never strange just how long she stays away
I guess I'll have to compromise
Though she's the one, she's the one
But she's the one, she's the one
But she's the one, she's the one

Now I'm divided like a flock of birds when excited
And picture circles in the sky
You can't believe me
Like all of the others who leave me
And feel their shapes across the aisle
Twirl things around us
And the shadows they left as they found us
Or running fingers through your hair
It's life that ended and the tracks that they left as they ascended
They'll picture circles in the air
Sometimes in her eyes, I see forever
I can't believe what we've found
I know in time, we'll be together
And now our love will make this sound
Now I'm divided like a flock of birds when excited
And picture circles in the sky
You can't believe me
Like all of the others who leave me
And feel their shapes across the aisle
Sometimes in her eyes, I see forever
I can't believe what we've found
I know in time, we'll be together
And now our love will make this sound
Sometimes in her eyes, I see forever
I can't believe what we've found
I know in time, we'll be together

Taking it slow, saving up she
Before she know it, all I ask before she goes home
She’s tired of crying, and sick of his lies
She’s suffered him for far too many years of her life
Feeling low, and scared that he’ll say
Do you know how overtime you drove her away
Saving up to, the day when she goes
The day that she stands up for everything that she
chose
She can say, she can say, she can say
She can say, she can say, she can say
Who knows what she’s gonna say
Saving up for, the day when she goes
The day that she stands up for everything that she
chose
Taking the kids, driving away
Turn around the life she let him siphon away
And I’ve been with you, for all of these years
Tell you what I’ve got to show for all of my tears
The times you hurt me, and treated me wrong
Something had to give to stop this thing from going on
She can say, she can say, she can say
She can say, she can say, she can say
Who knows what she’s gonna say
She’s tired of crying, and sick of his lies
She’s suffered him for far too many years of her life
Feeling low, and scared that he’ll say

I fall so far
I fall so far
And every moment everything we used to share
Will she be waiting when I call, will she be there?
And every moment every thought that passes by
Only reminds me of the heart it must have tried
Niobe, niobe,
I fall so far
I fall so far
I fall so far
I fall so far
Niobe, niobe

Melody day what have I done
Now our hearts are locked up tight again
And when I pray it's all begun
Then your smile it melts away again
Melody day where have you gone
And the hope I had is dying
And what we had has come undone
Then your smile it melts away again
Melody day what have I done
Now our hearts are locked up tight again
And when I pray it's all begun
Then your smile it melts away again
Tell them
Tell them I always knew why
So long

I can see she's in for this
She can't see her
It can make her happy
And I can see
She's says she's gone forward
And she's crying
And see she's calling
Leave house
Leave house
Leave house
(And it's the first thing that I would do)
(And I'll make sure he'll follow you)
Leave house
They say that I'm lonely
That I hide away
That I hide away from all of you
And I can't see
She's says she doesn't follow
She need an answer
And see she's falling
Leave house
Leave house
Leave house
(And I'll make sure he'll follow you)
Leave house
Leave house
Leave house
Leave house
(And I don't tell me what I should do)
(But I'll make sure he'll follow you)
Leave house
And she can call my number
The way she feels like home
And I'll come and catch her
When she feels she's gone
And we're both alone now
And yet we are not forever
The thing that makes us lonely
Will bring us back together
Leave house
Leave house
Leave house
(And that's the last thing that I would do)
(And I'll make sure he'll follow you)
Leave house
I can see she's in for this
She can't see her

She can hold onto her own
If it comes to push and shove
She has kept a lookout on
Over what's left of their love
And he keeps himself held back
For both their peace of minds
But he's no less quick to know
To begrudge of what he finds
Ooh, see I should soon
Ooh, ooh, see I should soon
As they watch themselves grow old
As he helps her into bed
Just to hear two things about
Just this talk inside his head
Ohh, I can't tell
How much all they seemed gay
And something in the way she tells me
I wish that I been gone
Ooh, see I should soon
Ooh, see I should soon

If I can't be the man
Tell me what I am
Tell me what I'm here for
If I can't be the one
Tell her what I've done
What good can I be for?
Did I not do enough
To save the two of us?
What more could I give her?
What more could I do
To see her point of view?
Why can't I believe her?
You got to make the change
I can't take you no more
These things you know
Do go, oh, ohh
Oh, Jamelia
You got to to go away
Oh, ohh
You got to make the change
I can't take you no more
These things you know
Do go, oh, ohh
Oh, Jamelia
You got to to go away
You can't come
Oh, ohh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
If I can't be the man
Tell me what I am

Irene
I know it's hard to stay away
I can only imagine
The things that you must say
But you should know
Better anyway

she told me to stay
or go away
and I looked in her eyes and left her
some people try
to tell me why
I made up my mind and left her
(humming)
she told me to stay
or go away
and I looked in her eyes and left her
some people try
to tell me why
I made up my mind and left her

She's had four since he last saw her
But she keeps it to herself
He wonders how he's gonna tell her
He wishes he was seeing someone else
He won't tell, but he still needs her
That it helps him go around
When he gets home, the house feels empty
From the bed, from the bedroom to the ground
Sometimes when she goes out
Sometimes she goes, when she goes
She knows, sometimes she goes out

While she waits, she holds her breath
And thinks about the things we said
And takes the modern song she knows
But now and then a hollow ghost
And everything she says she can fall for
She goes on so no one will know
Everything that she says she can fall for
She knows she'll be there on her own
And everything she says she can fall for
She goes on so no one will know
Everything she says she can fall for
She knows she'll be there on her own
And everything that she says she can fall for
She goes and she'll fall on her own
And everything that she says she can fall for