Two Doves Lyrics
Skin like silk and face like glass
Don't confront me with my failures
Kiss me with your mouth open
For your love, better than wine
For your cologne is sweetly fragrant
Call on me, call on me, call on me
Your hair is like an eagle
Your two eyes are like two doves
But our bed is like a failure
All day up in the valley
At the waning of the light
To the chamber that conceived me
Call on me, call on me, call on me
Geranium killer
Throat of soil of and mind like stone
Please don't defend a silver lining
Around the halo of what is already shining
When all the planets are aligning
For an afternoon that's never ending
Call on me, call on me, call on me
About
“Two Doves” is a bittersweet ballad containing a multitude of references ranging from Bob Dylan to the Bible. One could even interpret it as a modern “Song of Solomon”, detailing a love story that finds itself at a melancholy end.
Lead singer, David Longstreth stressed the importance of giving a solo song to each of the two female vocalists, Angel Deradoorian and Amber Coffman as “as a gift or homage to each one, to try to explode their temperaments into individual numbers.”. Thus, while Coffman’s “Stillness is the Move” is upbeat and fast paced, Deradoorian’s “Two Doves” is soothingly wistful.
Notably, theses two sister songs (the only ones missing Lonsgstreth’s lead vocals) are placed right next to one another on the album.
Longstreath explained,
I like the idea of making their personalities in song very distinct from each other. There’s definitely an element of symmetry or balance I was going for."
Longstreth has described Bitte Orca as a parody of what a big rock album should be, a parody of the DPz themselves as a band on tour. By quoting iconic singer-songwriters of the seventies, he does just that.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
The first two lines reference Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”.
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