“Pools” is the second single off Glass Animals' debut album ZABA.

The song features an exotic, upbeat background, mixing sud-American desert plains shamanic psychedelism with a soft, happy British pop.[Verse 1]

We float before the sea at dusk

In heavy mist, in glitter dust

I smile before I want to

I smile because you want to

We sip the wind through lips of lust

And out it comes, warm wisps of love

I smile because I want to

I smile because you want to

Put the flowers in your hair

Wrap your tendrils round my chest

I smile because I want to

I am your boy

[Chorus]

Shake my little soul for you now, toy

And I settle up into a world of noise

I’m a man of many tricks and tools and joy

With a battery of guilt on which to poise

[Verse 2]

Down by the shore, a funny foal

Who bit my wings and ate 'em whole

You left before I come to

You left before I come to

We took to hills into the trees

I hit my head and bit the leaves

You left before I come to

You left before I

[Chorus]

Shake my little soul for you now, toy

And I settle up into a world of noise

I’m a man of many tricks and tools and joy

With a battery of guilt on which to poise

[Bridge]

Shanks of slate fall to the beach

Wrapped in life in ultra greens

Pools teem with tiny feet

And whorls of tired anemones

You left before I got to

You left before I got to

You left before I

You left before I

Shook the flowers from your hair

Run to me and kiss my hands

I’m dead before I

I’m dead before I

[Chorus]

Shake my little soul for you now, toy

And I settle up into a world of noise

I’m a man of many tricks and tools and joy

With a battery of guilt on which to poise

Shake my little soul for you now, toy

And I settle up into a world of noise

I’m a man of many tricks and tools and toys

With a battery of guilt on which to poise

[Outro]

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to

I smile because I want to