Kingfisher - Joanna Newsom.mp3

[00:01.032]Whose is the hand that I will hold?
[00:06.622]Whose is the face I will see?
[00:12.787]Whose is the name that I will call
[00:18.011]When I am called to meet thee?
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[00:35.174]In this life who did you love
[00:40.581]Beneath the drifting ashes?
[00:46.197]Beneath the sheeting banks of air
[00:50.847]That barrenly bore our rations?
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[01:07.748]When I could speak it was too late
[01:13.182]Didn't you hear me calling?
[01:19.007]Didn't you see my heart leap like
[01:23.683]A pup in the constant barley?
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[01:40.689]In this new life where did you crouch
[01:46.357]When the sky had set to boiling?
[01:51.869]Burning within, seen from without
[01:56.571]And your gut was a serpent coiling
[02:02.815]And for the sake of that pit of snakes
[02:07.882]For whom did you allay your shyness?
[02:12.924]And spend all your mercy and madness and grace
[02:17.391]In a day beneath the bending cypress
[02:24.104]It was not on principle
[02:27.788]Show, pro-heart that you have got gall
[02:33.352]A miracle
[02:35.442]I can bear a lot but not that pall
[02:40.039]I can bear a lot, but not that pall
[02:44.924]Kingfisher sound the alarm
[02:49.051]Say sweet little darling now come to my arms
[02:52.944]Tell me all about the love you left on the farm
[02:57.907]He was a kind, unhurried man
[03:03.288]With a heavy lip and a steady hand
[03:08.042]But he loved me just like a little child
[03:12.718]Like a little child loves a little lamb
[03:18.544]Thrown to the ground by something down there
[03:23.742]Bitten by the bad air while the clouds tick
[03:29.463]Trying to read all the signs
[03:33.538]Preparing for when the bombs hit
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[03:50.178]Hung from the underbelly of the earth
[03:55.011]While the stars skid away below
[03:59.321]Gormless and brakeless, gravel-loose
[04:03.553]Falling silent as gavels in the snow
[04:09.508]la-la-la
[04:19.775]I lay back and spit in my chaw
[04:23.850]Wrapped in the long arm of the law
[04:28.473]Who has seen it all
[04:31.295]I can bear a lot but not that pall
[04:35.918]I can bear a lot but not that pall
[04:40.699]Kingfisher, cast your fly
[04:45.348]O lord, it happens without even trying
[04:49.241]When I sling a low look from my shuttering eye
[04:54.570]Blows rain upon the one you loved
[04:59.559]And though you were only sparring
[05:04.601]There's blood on the eye, unlace the glove
[05:09.668]Say, honey, I am not sorry
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[05:26.047]Stand here and name the one you loved
[05:31.167]Beneath the drifting ashes
[05:37.776]And in naming, rise above time
[05:43.445]As it, flashing, passes
[05:49.505]wo oh
[06:14.687]We came by the boatload
[06:20.878]And were immobilized
[06:27.304]Worshiping volcanoes
[06:33.731]Charting the loping skies
[06:40.000]The tides of the earth left
[06:46.243]Us bound and calcified and made as
[06:52.748]Obstinate as obsidian
[06:59.122]Unmoving, save our eyes
[07:05.260]Just mooning and blinking
[07:11.321]From faces marked with coal
[07:17.172]Ash cooling and shrinking
[07:23.415]Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear
[07:29.397]I know you; you know me
[07:35.693]Where have we met before, tell me true?
[07:42.171]To whose authority
[07:48.258]Do you consign your soul?
[07:52.986]I had a dream you came to me
[07:58.837]Saying, you shall not do me harm anymore
[08:04.480]And with your knife you evicted my life
[08:08.111]From its little lighthouse on the seashore
[08:13.100]And I saw that my blood had no bounds
[08:19.187]Spreading in a circle like an atom bomb
[08:24.255]Soaking and felling everything in its path
[08:28.382]And welling in my heart like a birdbath
[08:33.450]It is too short, the day we are born
[08:39.588]We commence with our dying
[08:43.690]Trying to serve with the heart of a child
[08:48.209]Kingfisher lie with the lion
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