Emily by Joanna Newsom (a cover by Dahi K)

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  • Опубліковано 15 лис 2024

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  • @henryohare1
    @henryohare1 Місяць тому +1

    very good,thanks

  • @strangenessandcharms
    @strangenessandcharms  Місяць тому

    Lyrics:
    The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
    Set to the sky in a flying spree
    For the sport over the pharaoh
    Little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadow
    Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
    There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
    Sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
    Into the bones of the birches
    And the spires of the churches
    Jutting out from the shadows
    The yoke, and the axe, and the old smokestacks and the bale and the barrow
    And everything sloped like it was dragged from a rope
    In the mouth of the south below
    We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
    We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
    From that snow in the night time
    Just going, and going
    And the stirring of wind chimes
    In the morning, in the morning
    Helps me find my way back in
    From the place where I have been
    And, Emily, I saw you last night by the river
    I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
    Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever
    In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
    Anyhow, I sat by your side, by the water
    You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
    Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed, in December
    I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
    That the meteorite is a source of the light
    And the meteor's just what we see
    And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
    And the meteorite's just what causes the light
    And the meteor's how it's perceived
    And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee
    You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
    Threw the window wide and cried, amen, amen, amen
    The whole world stopped to hear you hollering
    And you looked down and saw now what was happening
    The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
    Though I have never known the way to border 'em in
    So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows, and the grouse, and the horse and the hen
    Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
    And the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
    The talk in town's becoming downright sickening
    In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
    I've seen your bravery, and I will follow you there
    And row through the night time
    So healthy
    Gone healthy all of a sudden
    In search of the midwife
    Who could help me
    Who could help me
    Help me find my way back in
    And there are worries where I've been
    And say, say, say in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered
    Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
    Flanked by furrows, curling back, like a match held up to a newspaper
    Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter
    And I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better
    What they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
    Let us go, though we know it's a hopeless endeavor
    The ties that bind, they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever
    Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
    There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning
    Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
    Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
    Peonies nod in the breeze and while they wetly bow, with
    Hydrocephalitic listlessness ants mop up their brow
    And everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
    Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
    And my clay-colored motherlessness rangily reclines
    Come on home now, all my bones are dolorous with vines
    Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
    The way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
    Squint skyward and listen
    Loving him, we move within his borders
    Just asterisms in the stars' set order
    We could stand for a century
    Staring, with our heads cocked
    In the broad daylight at this thing
    Joy, landlocked
    In bodies that don't keep
    Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
    Till we don't be
    Told, take this
    And eat this
    Told, the meteorite is the source of the light
    And the meteor's just what we see
    And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
    And the meteorite's just what causes the light
    And the meteor's how it's perceived
    And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee