Alt-J Songs - Warm Foothills Lyrics

Alt-J - Warm Foothills

Alt-J - Warm Foothills Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: This Is All Yours
Released: 2014

Warm Foothills Lyrics

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Dry dunes cater for jumping boys
From the nape of her neck he made his descent
They watched men hurl from rock to sea
Like sternum to button, lined lip pinches in between

Your foothills
Your warm

Iris swims quietly beside me
Oh the leaves and larger weeds sway and stretch themselves beneath
Blue dragonflies dart to and fro
I tie my life to your balloon and let it go

Your foothills
Your warm

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

Writer/s: Unger-Hamilton, Augustus Figaro Niso / Green, Thomas Stuart / Newman, Joe Jerome
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The song's imagery about an idyllic swimming trip are from John Bayley's memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris. The passage recounts a happy time together before the late author's sad slide into dementia.

Iris Murdoch (1909-1999) was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1997 and died two years later in Oxford.

The sunrise ballad came from the writing sessions Alt-J did for British indie film Leave To Remain.

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, Lianne La Havas, Marika Hackman and Sivu were recruited to add vocals and whistling which were then spliced to fit between those sung by Joe Newman.