why?

[TheDifferential]

awsome! thank you so much for the upload :D

cheers

[adashbug]

thank you. it's so hard to find a decent live why video. never seen one for this song. i'd love to find one with fall saddles that goes right into light leaves....oh it'd be rad.

[drryangibbons]

i've only been able to find the tab for the intro guitar part, but nothing further. Can anyone help me out?

[anton1987]

lol a song can have more than one theme and meaning ya know. there are definite masturbation/sperm references, but i dont think the entire song is about this. the over-arching theme, as in alot of yoni's stuff, is him pondering about death...how he will die himself, where it will happen, what it will feel like, where he will go etc etc.

[Thor24x]

@anton1987 it's also about not wanting to be preserved like some kind of higher being and wanting to decompose into the earth

[TheAbsolutionHowl]

One of the greatest songs I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

[gavbag1234]

Anyone questioning what a WHY? song is about, the answer seems to be the same constantly. Suicide

[zanfankid]

@gavbag1234 well, i would say all of them, but certainly this one!!

"When my balls are finally big enough to do it

I don't want no casket, no saddle,

No seethrough plastic mask,"

there's no question about it on this one :D

[Wex1117]

Haha, he fucked up the lyrics at 2:05. Reminds me of that Xiu Xiu video where he says "Im gonna cut open your roofing shingle with a FOREHEAD!"

[Wex1117]

Well, it's more like 2:02. My bad.

[tobyisgreat]

love this song...always thought it was about death until a few months ago when I realised it was about sperm.

[andrewg5828]

hahaha what??? im pretty sure its about suicide.....

[tobyisgreat]

seriously...listen to the lyrics:

my hair (possibly meaning sperm) on the bathroom floor, my smaller selves down a sewer somewhere (that's obvious).

airplane rear and hotel lobby ladies room beware (masturbation reference).

these light leaves, bagged up in plastic (condoms) never to decompose or fertilize.

it's a whole autumn/death/orgasm thing, like in Pretty Colours by hymie's basement...that's my theory. I'm not taking the piss out of it, I love this song :)

[andrewg5828]

i think its about suicide and sperm

[iamjezuzchrist]

You got a bright imagination but no.

[andrewg5828]

fuck they're bad ass

[6skateitup9]

Amazing song

[Alfred0Jarry]

Hey, is this on a particular LP you guys? I love Why? but, living in England, I find it really hard to get hold of their stuff.

PS

Lordburzum whack

[coldgettindumb]

this is on elephant eyelash.

called "light leaves"

[Jackamole]

All of their stuff is on iTunes and most likely amazon as well :D

[45522t]

lordburzum how do you know anything...seems to me that you listen to 100 dollar recordings speaking of bitches and bottles of alcohol raining down in the club and getting everyone drunk so they can have sex all night and forget about it the next time a thought goes through their brains...

GET MONEY!!

[samwr]

D:

[brenchen]

yes...and you're a twat

[brenchen]

this is so good

[ZachLyleErikHanson12]

I saw them in Washington D.C at the 9:30 Club opening for Yo La Tengo. Where's this?

[YouthfulHollowCause]

"There's no mound of clouds to lounge on,

no mound of clouds to lounge on..."

Perfect live mold of my favourite 'why?' song.

[nixego]

powerful

[thegloaming]

nice recording of Light Leaves

[brenchen]

wow it's the radiohead guy, fancy seeing you here! ^_^