Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

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And all that we built, and all that we breathed
And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds
Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably
And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

Joanna Newsom

I do as I please.
Now I'm on my knees.
Your skin is something that I stir into my tea.
And I am watching you
and you are starry, starry, starry...

Joanna Newsom

I killed my dinner
with karate
kicked him in the face, taste the body, shallow work is the work that I do.

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While yonder, wild and blue,
the wild blue yonder looms.
'Till we are wracked with rheum,
by roads, by songs entombed.

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We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades.

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Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by
A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry
A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.

Joanna Newsom

And the love we hold, and the love we spurn,
Will never grow cold, only taciturn

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And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

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