North Lyrics

Song North
Artist Emmy the Great
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[00:17.04] There's a place I'm gonna leave to
[00:19.85] When all this questioning is through
[00:23.60] I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North
[00:27.41] Than my eyes have ever viewed
[00:30.66] And though I know that the thought proceeds me
[00:34.04] I know that others seek it too
[00:37.60] But when I get where the needle leads me
[00:41.29] Well I swear, and I swear,
[00:43.35] you'll never lead me away again
[00:51.91] And in the time when the peace of islands
[00:55.04] Was first by human hand disturbed
[00:58.85] They built their houses and they said obedience
[01:02.54] Was all the lives of men were worth
[01:05.85] And in the shadow of the temperance
[01:08.60] They laid boundaries in the dirt
[01:13.04] And when the door had a narrow entrance
[01:15.85] With their hands on their shirts
[01:18.48] they would pray for the non-believers
[01:22.73]
[01:24.91] And there's a place called North
[01:27.29] And they're gathering there to sing
[01:30.85] And I knock three times and beg them
[01:33.98] But they will not let me in
[01:38.29] And "Oh, my girl" they say
[01:41.41] "You're the carrier to no gain"
[01:44.79] But I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and
[01:50.44] Would you turn me away again?
[01:51.57]
[01:59.32] And do you go where the needle leads to
[02:01.39] And when you get there will you change?
[02:05.95] Out where the nights are soft
[02:07.95] And now you go because you think
[02:09.70] that Paradise should be tamed
[02:12.76] And how you live is by a map of humanity
[02:16.51] And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves
[02:19.88] But I've seen what you see
[02:21.89] It looks different to me
[02:23.64] I see lights to the shore
[02:25.51] And all these hearts beating other rhythms
[02:30.76] Now they die to be born
[02:36.07] And all their mysteries are dying with them
[02:42.45] And there's a place called North
[02:44.89] And you're gathering there to sing
[02:48.32] And I knock three times and beg you
[02:51.39] But you will not let me in
[02:56.32] But though I love so hard
[02:58.95] Now I'm the carrier to this gate
[03:02.40] And I lay, what I can,
[03:05.90] somewhere North of us and
[03:08.05] Would you turn me away again?
[03:10.40]
[03:24.77] And would these winds would lift
[03:27.22] And they carry me to your door
[03:30.79] And I knock three times and tell you
[03:33.85] I can't help where I was born
[03:38.60] But don't I love enough
[03:41.35] Isn't holiness where it forms?
[03:44.79] If I take, what I have, to the North
[03:50.04] Is there room on your piece of Heaven?
[04:09.85]
[04:18.54] Oh would you turn me away again?
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