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Song Anecdotes
Artist Joanna Newsom
Album Divers
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[00:19.79] Sending the first scouts over
[00:26.72] Back from the place beyond the dawn:
[00:32.82] Horse, bear your broken soldier
[00:37.61] Eyes frozen wide at what went on
[00:43.53] And Time, in our camp, is moving
[00:50.94] As you’d anticipate it to
[00:55.11] But what is this sample proving?
[01:02.90] Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do
[01:24.45] I kid with Rufous Nightjar
[01:29.95] When our men are all asleep:
[01:32.96] “It ain’t about how rare you are
[01:36.17] But how hard you are to see
[01:41.87] Take, you and me–"
[01:45.38] “When are you from?” said he
[01:47.89] In our blind of winter leaves
[01:52.54] As we sighted out their fliers
[01:55.60] In the grayscale of the night
[01:58.21] And fumbled on the bare ground
[02:00.34] To bury round landmines
[02:03.22] While the dew lay down and dried
[02:20.12] We signal?Private Poorwill, when morning starts to loom:
[02:29.32] “Pull up from your dive!”
[02:33.40] Till we hear the telltale Boom
[02:37.53] Too soon–
[02:38.72] Hotdogging loon, caught there
[02:40.85] Like a shard of mirror in the moon!
[02:46.77] Now they’ve stopped giving orders
[02:50.21] But I follow anyway
[02:53.23] Laying in our state of torpor
[02:55.36] Waiting out the day
[02:57.70] While the dew burns away
[03:14.21] Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
[03:19.29] Bound to a wheel that is not my own
[03:25.20] Where round every bend i long to see
[03:29.97] Temporal infidelity
[03:35.14] All along the road, the lights stream by
[03:40.11] I want to go where the dew won’t dry
[03:44.27] I want to go where the?light won’t bend–
[03:51.26] Far as the eye may reach–nor end
[03:55.12] But inasmuch as that light is loaned
[04:04.10] And, insofar as we’ve borrowed bones
[04:06.84] Must every debt now be repaid
[04:10.59] In?star-spotted, sickle-winged?night raids
[04:15.59] While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
[04:21.73] And we sing in the meantime
[04:24.58] Wherever you are?
[04:25.97] In the folds and the branches
[04:28.85] Somewhere, out there
[04:32.14] I was only just born into open air
[04:36.79] Now hush, little babe
[04:39.83] You don’t want to be
[04:42.41] Down in the trenches
[04:47.21] Remembering with me
[04:49.17] Where you will not mark my leaving
[04:54.30] And you will not hear my parting song
[04:59.37] Nor is there cause for grieving
[05:05.53] Nor is there cause for carrying on
[05:11.43] –and?daughter, when you are able
[05:17.67] Come down and join! The kettle’s on
[05:22.73] And your family’s round the table
[05:29.49] Will you come down, before the?sun?is?gone?
[00:19.79] Sending the first scouts over
[00:26.72] Back from the place beyond the dawn:
[00:32.82] Horse, bear your broken soldier
[00:37.61] Eyes frozen wide at what went on
[00:43.53] And Time, in our camp, is moving
[00:50.94] As you' d anticipate it to
[00:55.11] But what is this sample proving?
[01:02.90] Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do
[01:24.45] I kid with Rufous Nightjar
[01:29.95] When our men are all asleep:
[01:32.96] " It ain' t about how rare you are
[01:36.17] But how hard you are to see
[01:41.87] Take, you and me"
[01:45.38] " When are you from?" said he
[01:47.89] In our blind of winter leaves
[01:52.54] As we sighted out their fliers
[01:55.60] In the grayscale of the night
[01:58.21] And fumbled on the bare ground
[02:00.34] To bury round landmines
[02:03.22] While the dew lay down and dried
[02:20.12] We signal? Private Poorwill, when morning starts to loom:
[02:29.32] " Pull up from your dive!"
[02:33.40] Till we hear the telltale Boom
[02:37.53] Too soon
[02:38.72] Hotdogging loon, caught there
[02:40.85] Like a shard of mirror in the moon!
[02:46.77] Now they' ve stopped giving orders
[02:50.21] But I follow anyway
[02:53.23] Laying in our state of torpor
[02:55.36] Waiting out the day
[02:57.70] While the dew burns away
[03:14.21] Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
[03:19.29] Bound to a wheel that is not my own
[03:25.20] Where round every bend i long to see
[03:29.97] Temporal infidelity
[03:35.14] All along the road, the lights stream by
[03:40.11] I want to go where the dew won' t dry
[03:44.27] I want to go where the? light won' t bend
[03:51.26] Far as the eye may reach nor end
[03:55.12] But inasmuch as that light is loaned
[04:04.10] And, insofar as we' ve borrowed bones
[04:06.84] Must every debt now be repaid
[04:10.59] In? starspotted, sicklewinged? night raids
[04:15.59] While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
[04:21.73] And we sing in the meantime
[04:24.58] Wherever you are?
[04:25.97] In the folds and the branches
[04:28.85] Somewhere, out there
[04:32.14] I was only just born into open air
[04:36.79] Now hush, little babe
[04:39.83] You don' t want to be
[04:42.41] Down in the trenches
[04:47.21] Remembering with me
[04:49.17] Where you will not mark my leaving
[04:54.30] And you will not hear my parting song
[04:59.37] Nor is there cause for grieving
[05:05.53] Nor is there cause for carrying on
[05:11.43] and? daughter, when you are able
[05:17.67] Come down and join! The kettle' s on
[05:22.73] And your family' s round the table
[05:29.49] Will you come down, before the? sun? is? gone?
[00:19.79] Sending the first scouts over
[00:26.72] Back from the place beyond the dawn:
[00:32.82] Horse, bear your broken soldier
[00:37.61] Eyes frozen wide at what went on
[00:43.53] And Time, in our camp, is moving
[00:50.94] As you' d anticipate it to
[00:55.11] But what is this sample proving?
[01:02.90] Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do
[01:24.45] I kid with Rufous Nightjar
[01:29.95] When our men are all asleep:
[01:32.96] " It ain' t about how rare you are
[01:36.17] But how hard you are to see
[01:41.87] Take, you and me"
[01:45.38] " When are you from?" said he
[01:47.89] In our blind of winter leaves
[01:52.54] As we sighted out their fliers
[01:55.60] In the grayscale of the night
[01:58.21] And fumbled on the bare ground
[02:00.34] To bury round landmines
[02:03.22] While the dew lay down and dried
[02:20.12] We signal? Private Poorwill, when morning starts to loom:
[02:29.32] " Pull up from your dive!"
[02:33.40] Till we hear the telltale Boom
[02:37.53] Too soon
[02:38.72] Hotdogging loon, caught there
[02:40.85] Like a shard of mirror in the moon!
[02:46.77] Now they' ve stopped giving orders
[02:50.21] But I follow anyway
[02:53.23] Laying in our state of torpor
[02:55.36] Waiting out the day
[02:57.70] While the dew burns away
[03:14.21] Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
[03:19.29] Bound to a wheel that is not my own
[03:25.20] Where round every bend i long to see
[03:29.97] Temporal infidelity
[03:35.14] All along the road, the lights stream by
[03:40.11] I want to go where the dew won' t dry
[03:44.27] I want to go where the? light won' t bend
[03:51.26] Far as the eye may reach nor end
[03:55.12] But inasmuch as that light is loaned
[04:04.10] And, insofar as we' ve borrowed bones
[04:06.84] Must every debt now be repaid
[04:10.59] In? starspotted, sicklewinged? night raids
[04:15.59] While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
[04:21.73] And we sing in the meantime
[04:24.58] Wherever you are?
[04:25.97] In the folds and the branches
[04:28.85] Somewhere, out there
[04:32.14] I was only just born into open air
[04:36.79] Now hush, little babe
[04:39.83] You don' t want to be
[04:42.41] Down in the trenches
[04:47.21] Remembering with me
[04:49.17] Where you will not mark my leaving
[04:54.30] And you will not hear my parting song
[04:59.37] Nor is there cause for grieving
[05:05.53] Nor is there cause for carrying on
[05:11.43] and? daughter, when you are able
[05:17.67] Come down and join! The kettle' s on
[05:22.73] And your family' s round the table
[05:29.49] Will you come down, before the? sun? is? gone?
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