Anecdotes - Joanna Newsom.mp3

[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?