Lyrics & Thesis for Song Analysis 2

 Shifting from a retrospective to a commanding first person point of view in "Mykonos" Fleet Foxes wields sagacious metaphor, vernal symbolism and Mediterranean imagery in order to communicate that "it ain't often that you'll ever find a friend" when trying to cope with negative change within one's self alone.




Fleet Foxes- Mykonos

The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us
Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up.

And you will go to Mykonos With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

How did animals in the snow tipped pines, I find
Hatching from the seed of your thin mind, all night?

And you will go to Mykonos
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

Brother you don't need to turn me away
I was waiting down at the ancient gate
You go Wherever you go today  
You go today

I remember how they took you down
As the winter turned the meadow brown

You go Wherever you go today
You go today

When a-walking brother don't you forget
It ain't often that you'll ever find a friend

You go Wherever you go today
You go today