Joanna Newsom - Leaving The City lyrics

rate me

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Ay and a clean stall

And ivy on a garden wall

And a sign sayin sold

And no coat for the bad cold

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I believe in you

Do you believe in me?

What do you want to do?

Are we leavin the city?

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On the black road,

Throw the gold fields

While the fields are plowed

Towards what we are allowed

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The bridle bends in idle hands

And slows your canter to a trot

We mean to stop in increments,

But can’t commit

We post and sit in impotence

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The harder the hit, the deeper the dent

We seek our name, we seek out fame

In our credentials, paved in glass,

Tryin to master incidentals

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Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents

The longer you live, the higher the rent

Beneath a pale sky,

Beside the red barn,

Below the white clouds

Is all we are allowed

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Here, the light will seep,

And the scythe will reap,

And spirit will rend

In countin toward the end.

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In December of that year,

The word came down that she was here

The days were shorter,

I was sure if she came round,

I’d hold my ground

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I can do what they alluded to,

A change that came to pass

And spring did range, weepin grass

And sleepless broke

Itself upon my winter glass

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And I could barely breathe for seein

All the splintered light that leaked

A fish is fleetin, launched in flight

But starched in light,

Bright and bleedin, bleach the night

With dawn deletin in that high sun

After our good run,

When the spirit bends

Beneath knowin it must end

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And I did all I want here,

To draw my gaunt spirit to bow

Beneath what I am allowed x 2