Cosmia - Joanna Newsom.mp3

[00:12.330]When you ate
[00:13.906]I saw your eyelashes
[00:24.011]Saw them shake like wind on rushes
[00:35.762]In the cornfield when she called me
[00:47.597]Moths surround me
[00:51.402]Thought they’d drown me
[00:59.171]And I miss your precious heart
[01:05.130]And I miss your precious heart
[01:16.009]Dried rose petals —
[01:17.579]redbrown circles —
[01:19.305]framed your eyes and
[01:20.621]stained your knuckles
[01:22.338]Dried rose petals —
[01:24.004]redbrown circles —
[01:25.689]framed your eyes and
[01:27.002]stained your knuckles
[01:43.393]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[01:47.209]brought you bread and water (Water, in)
[01:51.323]But though I tried so hard
[01:53.883]my little darlin
[01:55.401]I couldn’t keep the night from coming in
[01:59.809]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[02:03.545]brought me bread and water by the kith and the kin
[02:07.545]Now in the quiet hour
[02:10.026]when I am sleeping
[02:11.741]I cannot keep the night from coming in
[02:58.984]Why’ve you gone away?
[03:03.328]Gone away again?
[03:06.913]I’ll sleep through the rest of my days
[03:11.185]if you’ve gone away again
[03:15.712]I'll sleep through the rest of my days
[03:24.809]I'll sleep through the rest of my days
[03:29.097]And I will sleep through the rest of my days
[04:03.563]Why’ve you gone away, away
[04:11.464]Seven suns, seven suns away, away
[04:32.432]Away, away
[04:43.664]Can you hear me?
[04:45.034]Will you listen?
[04:46.608]Don’t come near me
[04:48.118]Don’t go missing
[04:50.023]And in the lissome light of evening:
[04:52.976]Help me, Cosmia; I’m grieving
[05:11.189]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[05:14.971]brought you bread and water (Water, in)
[05:19.052]But though I tried so hard
[05:21.519]my little darlin
[05:23.191]I couldn’t keep the night from coming in
[05:27.152]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[05:31.160]brought me bread and water by the kith and the kin
[05:35.247]Now in the quiet hour
[05:37.863]when I am sleeping
[05:39.471]I cannot keep the night from coming in
[05:54.799]Beneath the porch-light
[05:58.976]we’ve all been circling
[06:05.547]Beat our dust hearts
[06:10.007]singe our flour wings
[06:17.240]But in the corner
[06:21.519]something is happening!
[06:28.775]Wild Cosmia, what have you seen?
[06:40.727]Water were your limbs
[06:43.466]and the fire was your hair
[06:51.982]and then the moonlight caught your eye
[06:55.311]And you rose through the air
[07:03.847]well, if you’ve seen true light
[07:07.167]then this is my prayer:
[07:15.356]will you call me when you get there?
[07:21.311]And I miss your precious heart
[07:26.599]And I miss your precious heart
[07:32.097]and miss, and miss, and miss
[07:34.951]and miss, and miss, and miss
[07:38.178]and miss, and miss your heart
[07:49.391]But release your precious heart
[07:54.867]to its feast, for precious hearts