Joanna Newsom - Kingfisher lyrics

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Whose is the hand that I will hold?

Whose is the face I will see?

Whose is the name that I will call

When I am called to meet thee?

In this life who did you love

Beneath the drifting ashes

Beneath the shifting banks of air

That barely pour out rations

When I could speak it was too late

Didn't you hear me calling?

Didn't you see my heart leap like a pup

in a constant barley

In this life where did you crouch

When the sky had set to boiling

Burning within seen from without

And your gut was a serpent coiling?

And for the sake of that pit of snakes

For whom did you relay your shyness

And spend all your mercy and madness and grace

In a day beneath the bending cypress

It was not on principle

Show your heart but you have got all

A miracle

I can bear a lot but not that pall

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Kingfisher, sound the alarm

Say sweet little darling, now come to my arms

Tell me all about the love you left on the farm

He was a kind and hurried man

With a heavy lip and a steady hand

But he loved me just like a little child

A little child loves a little lamb

Thrown to the ground by something down there

Bitten by the bad air, will the clouds tick

Trying to read all the signs

Preparing for when the bombs hit.

Hung from the underbelly of the earth

While the stars get away below

Gormless and brakeless, gravel loose

Falling silent as gavels in the snow

La-la-la .. la la

La la la la .. la la la la la

Lay back and spit in my jar

Wrapped in the long arm of the law

You see it all

I can bear a lot but not that pall

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Kingfisher, cast your rod

Oh lord, it happens without even trying

When I sling a low from a sheltering ..

Blows rain upon the one you loved

And though you were only sparring

There's blood on the eye, unlace the glove

Say, 'Honey, I am not sorry'

Stand here and name the one you loved

Beneath the drifting ashes

And in naming rise above

Time as it, flashing, passes ... ooooooh

We came by the boatload

And were immobilized

Worshiping volcanoes

Charting the loping skies

The tides of the earth left

Us bound and calcified

And made as obstinate as obsidian

Unmoving sable eyes anekatips.com

Just mooning and blinking

Them faces marked with coal

Ash coolin' and shrinking

Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

I know you, you know me

Where have we met before?

Tell me true

To whose authority

Do you consign your soul?

I had a dream you came to me

Said you shall ....

And with your knife you evicted my life

From its little lighthouse on the seashore

And I saw that my blood had no bound

Spreading in a circle like an animal

Soaking and filling everything in its path

A well in my heart like a birdbath

Oh, it is too short

The day we are born

We commence without dinning

Trying to serve with the heart of a child

Kingfisher lie with the lion<br />

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Thanks to Razvan