[ti:Emily]
[ar:Joanna Newsom]
[al:Ys]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Emily - Joanna Newsom
[00:00.72]Composed by:Joanna Newsom
[00:01.44]The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
[00:13.77]Set to the sky in a flying spree for the sport of the pharaoh
[00:25.17]Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
[00:36.40]Do you remember what they called up to you and me in our window
[00:47.30]There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
[00:52.61]Sun pouring wine lord or marrow
[00:58.44]Down into the bones of the birches
[01:01.65]And the spires of the churches
[01:04.72]Jutting out from the shadows
[01:10.70]The yoke and the axe and the old smokestacks and the bale and the barrow
[01:22.06]And everything sloped like it was dragged from a rope
[01:26.82]In the mouth of the south below
[01:33.98]We've seen those mountains kneeling felten and grey
[01:44.82]We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
[01:53.91]From that snow in the nighttime
[01:59.03]Just going
[02:01.26]And going
[02:03.57]And the stirring of wind chimes
[02:08.36]In the morning
[02:10.35]In the morning
[02:13.75]Helps me find my way back in
[02:23.80]From the place where I have been
[02:39.64]And Emily I saw you last night by the river
[02:48.83]I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
[02:57.32]Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
[03:04.65]In a mud-cloud mica-spangled like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
[03:14.75]Anyhow I sat by your side by the water
[03:21.91]You taught me the names of the stars overhead
[03:25.60]That I wrote down in my ledger
[03:29.03]Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
[03:35.90]I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
[03:44.88]That the meteorite is a source of the light
[03:48.89]And the meteor's just what we see
[03:52.64]And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid
[03:56.01]Of the fire that propelled it to thee
[04:00.18]And the meteorite's just what causes the light
[04:03.72]And the meteor's how it's perceived
[04:07.45]And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void
[04:11.15]That lies quiet and offering to thee
[04:20.02]You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
[04:34.35]Threw the windows wide and cried "Amen Amen Amen"
[04:47.01]The whole world stopped to hear you hollering
[04:57.55]You looked down and saw now what was happening
[05:09.50]The lines are fading in my kingdom
[05:17.37]Though I have never known the way to border them in
[05:25.41]So the muddy mouths of baboons
[05:28.64]And sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
[05:33.84]Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
[05:41.59]And the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
[05:50.40]The talk in town's becoming downright sickening
[05:58.37]In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
[06:06.87]I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
[06:14.92]And row through the nighttime
[06:19.18]So healthy
[06:21.52]Gone healthy all of a sudden
[06:23.68]In search of a midwife
[06:27.46]Who can help me
[06:29.40]Who can help me
[06:32.76]Help me find my way back in
[06:41.51]And there are worries where I've been
[06:54.73]Say say say in the lee of the bay don't be bothered
[07:01.84]Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
[07:09.82]Flanked by furrows curling back like a match held up to a newspaper
[07:19.22]Emily they'll follow your lead by the letter
[07:26.18]And I make this claim and I'm not ashamed to say I know you better
[07:33.39]What they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
[07:42.21]Let us go though we know it's a hopeless endeavor
[07:48.90]The ties that bind they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever
[07:55.74]Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky
[07:59.89]That is gaping and yawning
[08:02.83]There is a song I woke with on my lips
[08:05.70]As you sailed your great ship towards the morning
[08:14.28]Come on home the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
[08:27.41]Blossoms all have fallen and the pollen ruins the plow
[08:39.50]Peonies nod in the breeze and while they wetly bow
[08:50.50]With hydrocephalitic listlessness ants mop up their brow
[09:02.42]And everything with wings is restless aimless drunk and dour
[09:11.83]The butterflies and birds collide at hot ungodly hours
[09:19.89]And my clay-colored motherlessness rangily reclines
[09:28.24]Come on home now All my bones are dolorous with vines
[09:38.37]Pa pointed out to me for the hundredth time tonight
[09:46.86]The way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
[09:54.20]Squint skyward and listen
[09:58.90]Loving him we move within his borders
[10:03.67]Just asterisms in the stars' set order
[10:10.61]We could stand for a century
[10:14.70]Staring
[10:16.17]With our heads cocked
[10:18.39]In the broad daylight at this thing
[10:23.00]Joy
[10:25.16]Landlocked
[10:26.76]In bodies that don't keep
[10:30.92]Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
[10:35.36]Until we don't be told
[10:38.87]Take this
[10:40.58]And eat this
[10:42.02]Told the meteorite is a source of the light
[10:45.62]And the meteor's just what we see
[10:49.43]And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid
[10:53.29]Of the fire that propelled it to thee
[10:56.95]And the meteorite's just what causes the light
[11:00.65]And the meteor's how it's perceived
[11:04.25]And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void
[11:07.82]That lies quiet and offering to thee