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Time, As a Symptom Lyrics

Song Time, As a Symptom
Artist Joanna Newsom
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[00:10.45] Time passed hard,
[00:14.86] and the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do.
[00:22.70] But she forgot,
[00:27.74] the moment she saw you.
[00:34.89] So it would seem to be true:
[00:40.68] when cruel birth debases, we forget.
[00:47.58] When cruel death debases,
[00:51.62] we believe it erases all the rest
[00:57.68] that precedes.
[01:01.73] But stand brave, life-liver,
[01:08.60] bleeding out your days
[01:11.25] in the river of time.
[01:17.22] Stand brave:
[01:22.43] time moves both ways,
[01:28.09] in the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:35.82] joy of life;
[01:41.90] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:49.14] joy of life.
[01:55.70] The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
[02:02.69] not axe nor hammer,
[02:04.93] tumor, tremor,
[02:06.44] can take it away, and it remains.
[02:15.10] It remains.
[02:21.89] And it pains me to say, I was wrong.
[02:36.26] Love is not a symptom of time.
[02:43.24] Time is just a symptom of love
[02:49.05] (and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[02:56.43] joy of life;
[03:02.58] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[03:08.91] joy of life).
[03:13.61] Hardly seen, hardly felt–
[03:15.92] deep down where your fight is waiting,
[03:18.95] down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
[03:22.33] joy of life.
[03:28.02] Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
[03:31.72] bow like the field when the combs through it:
[03:35.43] joy of life.
[03:41.11] And every little gust that chances through
[03:44.58] will dance in the dust of me and you,
[03:48.41] with joy-of-life.
[03:54.06] And in our perfect secret-keeping:
[03:57.34] One ear of corn,
[03:59.06] in silent, reaping
[04:01.75] joy of life.
[04:06.33] Joy! Again, around–a pause, a sound–a song:
[04:13.30] a way a lone a last a loved a long.
[04:18.98] A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend.
[04:24.75] (Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
[04:31.26] A shore, a tide, unmoored–a sight, abroad:
[04:36.96] A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god).
[04:42.75] No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end.
[04:48.07] White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:54.26] White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:59.03] White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[05:04.73] White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: trans!
[00:10.45] Time passed hard,
[00:14.86] and the task was the hardest thing she' d ever do.
[00:22.70] But she forgot,
[00:27.74] the moment she saw you.
[00:34.89] So it would seem to be true:
[00:40.68] when cruel birth debases, we forget.
[00:47.58] When cruel death debases,
[00:51.62] we believe it erases all the rest
[00:57.68] that precedes.
[01:01.73] But stand brave, lifeliver,
[01:08.60] bleeding out your days
[01:11.25] in the river of time.
[01:17.22] Stand brave:
[01:22.43] time moves both ways,
[01:28.09] in the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:35.82] joy of life
[01:41.90] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:49.14] joy of life.
[01:55.70] The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
[02:02.69] not axe nor hammer,
[02:04.93] tumor, tremor,
[02:06.44] can take it away, and it remains.
[02:15.10] It remains.
[02:21.89] And it pains me to say, I was wrong.
[02:36.26] Love is not a symptom of time.
[02:43.24] Time is just a symptom of love
[02:49.05] and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[02:56.43] joy of life
[03:02.58] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[03:08.91] joy of life.
[03:13.61] Hardly seen, hardly felt
[03:15.92] deep down where your fight is waiting,
[03:18.95] down ' till the light in your eyes is fading:
[03:22.33] joy of life.
[03:28.02] Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it
[03:31.72] bow like the field when the combs through it:
[03:35.43] joy of life.
[03:41.11] And every little gust that chances through
[03:44.58] will dance in the dust of me and you,
[03:48.41] with joyoflife.
[03:54.06] And in our perfect secretkeeping:
[03:57.34] One ear of corn,
[03:59.06] in silent, reaping
[04:01.75] joy of life.
[04:06.33] Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound a song:
[04:13.30] a way a lone a last a loved a long.
[04:18.98] A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend.
[04:24.75] Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.
[04:31.26] A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:
[04:36.96] A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked a god.
[04:42.75] No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end.
[04:48.07] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:54.26] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:59.03] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[05:04.73] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: trans!
[00:10.45] Time passed hard,
[00:14.86] and the task was the hardest thing she' d ever do.
[00:22.70] But she forgot,
[00:27.74] the moment she saw you.
[00:34.89] So it would seem to be true:
[00:40.68] when cruel birth debases, we forget.
[00:47.58] When cruel death debases,
[00:51.62] we believe it erases all the rest
[00:57.68] that precedes.
[01:01.73] But stand brave, lifeliver,
[01:08.60] bleeding out your days
[01:11.25] in the river of time.
[01:17.22] Stand brave:
[01:22.43] time moves both ways,
[01:28.09] in the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:35.82] joy of life
[01:41.90] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:49.14] joy of life.
[01:55.70] The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
[02:02.69] not axe nor hammer,
[02:04.93] tumor, tremor,
[02:06.44] can take it away, and it remains.
[02:15.10] It remains.
[02:21.89] And it pains me to say, I was wrong.
[02:36.26] Love is not a symptom of time.
[02:43.24] Time is just a symptom of love
[02:49.05] and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[02:56.43] joy of life
[03:02.58] the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[03:08.91] joy of life.
[03:13.61] Hardly seen, hardly felt
[03:15.92] deep down where your fight is waiting,
[03:18.95] down ' till the light in your eyes is fading:
[03:22.33] joy of life.
[03:28.02] Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it
[03:31.72] bow like the field when the combs through it:
[03:35.43] joy of life.
[03:41.11] And every little gust that chances through
[03:44.58] will dance in the dust of me and you,
[03:48.41] with joyoflife.
[03:54.06] And in our perfect secretkeeping:
[03:57.34] One ear of corn,
[03:59.06] in silent, reaping
[04:01.75] joy of life.
[04:06.33] Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound a song:
[04:13.30] a way a lone a last a loved a long.
[04:18.98] A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend.
[04:24.75] Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.
[04:31.26] A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:
[04:36.96] A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked a god.
[04:42.75] No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end.
[04:48.07] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:54.26] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:59.03] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[05:04.73] White star, white ship Nightjar, transmit: trans!
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