Fleet Foxes - Featherweight Lyrics

Fleet Foxes Lyrics

"Featherweight"

All this time I've been hanging on
To an edge I caught when we both were young
That the world I won wasn't near enough
Always distant, always all

In all that war, I'd forgotten how
Many men might die for what I'd renounced
I was staging life as a battleground
No I let that grasping fall

May the last long year be forgiven
All that war left within it
I couldn't, though I'm beginning to

And we've only made it together
Feel some change in the weather
I couldn't, though I'm beginning to

And though it's all so uncertain, cold
All the rafters cracked, all the copper sold
There's a ration back in a manifold
If you need it or forgot

May the last long year be forgiven
All that war left within it
I couldn't, though I'm beginning to

And we've only made it together
Feel some change in the weather
I couldn't, though I'm beginning to

And somehow I see
It's free

And with love and hate in the balance
One last way past the malice
One warm day's all I really need

And with love and hate in the balance
One last way past the malice
One warm day is all I really need

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Writer(s): Robin Pecknold

According to EW.com, Robin Pecknold commented on "Featherweight" in September 2020, "It all came from the past few months, being in lockdown, and recognizing how lucky I am to have a roof over my head and to make music for a living. Back in February, when I was working on the record, I was really stressed out about it — and that stress went away, because the world, the stress that we're all under, began to seem much more important. Those lyrics were acknowledging just gratitude for being lucky to not be dead and not be out of work."

Robin Pecknold described this song to Apple Music as such, "It's lighter on its feet. I thought it was following a train of thought—where with 'Jara' there is a bit of envy of a political engagement, in 'Featherweight', I feel like it's kind of examining privilege a little bit more. This period of time accommodated that in a very real way for me, just making my problems seem smaller. Acknowledging that I've made problems for myself sometimes in my life when there weren't really any."