Тексты песен «Joanna Newsom»


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Joanna Newsom - Be A Woman

When i saw the blossoms broke after the rain Limp and sodden - when you wrote me again Made me think of spiders i washed down the drain Spiders ghosts - thrown back up again Blessing all the birds that died so i could...

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Joanna Newsom - Bridges And Balloons

We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable as clay But ships are fallible, I say And the nautical, like all things, fades and I Can recall our caravel: A little wicker beetle shell With four fine maste and...

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Joanna Newsom - Cassiopeia

Feel the matress tense beneath me Like the muscle of nonsleepy Feathers flexing will defeat me And it vexes me completely And the hexes heat covertly Like a slow low-flying turkey Like a Texan drying jerky But his...

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Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

That means no Where I come from I am cold Out waiting for the day to come I chew my lips And I scratch my nose Feels so good to be a rose Oh don't, don't you life me up Like I'm that shy No no no no no Just five...

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Joanna Newsom - Cosmia

Cosmia When you ate I saw your eyelashes Saw them shake like wind on rushes In the corn field when she called me Moths surround me, thought they'd drown me And I miss your precious heart And I miss your precious heart...

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Joanna Newsom - Does Not Suffice

I will pack all my pretty dresses I will box up my high-heeled shoes A sparkling ring for every finger I'll put away and hide from view Coats of boucle, jacquard and cashmere Cartouche and tweed, all silver-shot And...

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Joanna Newsom - Emily

Emily The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport over the pharaoh A little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadow Do you remember what they...

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Joanna Newsom - En Gallop

This place is damp and ghostly I am already gone And the halls were lined With the disembodied And the dustly wings Which fell from flesh Gasplessly And I go Where the trees go And I walk From a higher...

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Joanna Newsom - Erin

Erin, erin, erin! Erin across america Do now cheer me on Can't you hear the song for you? Quick, now - caramel dip Give it up to the runaway ship Hail, now - hail to the bitch The hairy literary with the nervous,...

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Joanna Newsom - Flying A Kite

Dear charming kite, Do litely bite The foggy fields, the lowing lanes The rickety roads and the kneeling plains Oh lazy light With massive might You dare my dream of snowy cloth Felt snapping white as albatross Is...

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Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

From the courtyard, I floated in and watched it go down. Heard the cup drop; thought, "Well, that's why they keep them around." The blackguard sat hard, down, with no head on him now, and I felt so bad, cause I didn't...

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Joanna Newsom - Inflammatory Writ

Oh, where is your inflammatory writ Your text that would incite a light, "Be lit" Our music deserving devotion unswerving Cry "Do I deserve her?" with unflagging fervor Well, no you do not, if you cannot get over it...

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Joanna Newsom - Monkey And Bear

Monkey And Bear Down in the green hay Where monkey and bear usually lay They woke from a stable-boy's cry He said; someone come quick! The horses got loose, got grass-sick! They'll founder! Fain, they'll die What is...

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Joanna Newsom - No Provenance

Allelu, allelu: I have died happy And lived to tell the tale to you I have slept for forty years And woke to find me gone I woke safe and warm in your arms In your arms, your arms In your arms Not informed of the...

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Joanna Newsom - Only Skin

Only Skin And there was a booming above you That night, black airplanes flew over the sea And they were lowing and shifting like Beached whales Shelled snails As you strained and you squinted to see The retreat of...

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Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear

We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore You seem markedly more And I'm oozing suprise But it's late in the day And you're well on your way What was golden went gray And I'm suddenly shy And the gathering...

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Joanna Newsom - Sadie

Sadie White coat You carry me home And bury this bone And take this pinecone Bury this bone To gnaw on it later, gnawing on the telephone And 'till then, we pray and suspend The notion that these lives do never end

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Joanna Newsom - Sawdust And Diamonds

Sawdust And Diamonds From the top of the flight Of the wide, white stairs Through the rest of my life Do you wait for me there? There's a bell in my ears There's a wide white roar Drop a bell down the stairs Hear it...

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Joanna Newsom - Soft As Chalk

So, so long ago, and so far away When time was just a line That you fed me when you wanted to stay We'd talk as soft as chalk Till morning came, Pale as a pearl No time, no time Now I have got all the time in the world...

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Joanna Newsom - Sprout And The Bean

I slept all day Awoke with distaste And I railed And I raved That the difference between The sprout and the bean It is a golden ring It is a twisted string And you can ask the counsellor And you can ask the king...