Cover art for Zebra by Beach House

Zebra

Jan. 26, 20101 viewer57.6K views

Zebra Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You know you're gold, you don't got to worry none
Oasis child born and so wild
Don't I know you better than the rest?
All deception, all deception from you

[Verse 2]
Your love is stag in the white sand
Wilderness for miles, eyes so mild and wise
Don't I know you better than the rest?
All deception, all deception from you

[Chorus]
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us

[Verse 3]
Your love is stag in the white sand
Oasis child
born into a man
Don't I know you better than the rest?
All deception, all deception from you

[Verse 4]
Wilderness for miles, eyes so mild and wise
Oasis child
born and so wild
Don't I know you better than the rest?
All deception, all deception from you
[Chorus]
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us
Anyway you run, you run before us
Black and white horse arching among us

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What did Beach House say about "Zebra"?
Genius Answer

Alex and I have had a very incredible collaborative career so far in how we work together. “Zebra,” since it’s one of your favorites, I can tell you for that song Alex had written most of the musical arrangement and when I heard it, this was another brain looking in on what somebody else had created, and I immediately thought, I had written some things but the zebra imagery kept coming to my brain. It was what I was seeing, the patterns crossing. That comes from comes from the music and how the music ignited something in my mind and my visual imagination. So, I definitely think that process is where you really see things come to life.

– Victoria Legrand, KEXP, 2019.

The opening guitar part I just was randomly playing in Australia, when we were there in 2008 and I remember Victoria said, “I like that, remember that,” which always encourages me a lot because if she hears something in something that I know that it could be good… I started thinking about it a whole and then another part kind of grew out of that. I started started playing it for Victoria and she instantly started to hear, she said the way it sounds it sounds like a zebra like running or criss crossing. She started bringing this entire narrative to it and then something grew from there, so it’s just a couple little guitar parts and everything started building.

– Alex Scally, FaceCulture, 2010.

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