Discover the story of the song > Like Castanets – Bishop Allen

The protagonist is describing their experience in a city that is silver in the moon with mountains that look like sugar spoons. They walk on lonely and crooked streets, which sound like castanets. They follow the coffee trail and drink it black while experiencing the rain and chit and chatter of their teeth. They climb a cable car up to a sacred virgin shrine, but the city is smothered in smog and filled with the snippy snap of wild dogs, like castanets.