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Song Goose Eggs
Artist Joanna Newsom
Album Divers
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[00:12.84] What we built, at the kiln that won’t be stilled
[00:20.65] Did not set well:
[00:23.50] The old veil of desire
[00:26.87] Like the vessels that we fired
[00:31.90] Fell thin as eggshells
[00:33.79] And every season, somebody burns
[00:37.29] Downtown, taking turns–
[00:39.97] Taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose
[00:44.63] Now the wind blows coals over the hills. Honey
[00:47.84] I’ve been paying my bills
[00:50.85] But honey it’s been a long time since I’ve come to any use
[00:55.96] And it hurt me bad, when I heard the news
[00:58.63] That you’d got that call, and could not refuse
[01:01.86] (A goose, alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese
[01:05.37] Who never find their peace, whether North, or South, or West, or East, West or East;
[01:07.61] And I could never find my way
[01:19.48] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[01:26.54] Till the needing had ceased.)
[01:31.65] Recently, a bottle of rye, and a friend, and me
[01:39.44] On our five loose legs
[01:42.52] Had a ramble, and spoke
[01:46.26] Of the scrambling of broken hopes, and goose eggs
[01:53.10] And of a stranger, long ago
[01:56.32] (Not you, honey! You, I know.)
[01:58.53] We just spoke of broken hopes and old strangers
[02:03.15] Now the wind blows coals over the sea. Tell you what, honey:
[02:10.59] You and me better run and see if we can’t contain them, first
[02:14.15] But you had somewhere that you had to go
[02:16.89] And you caught that flight out of Covelo
[02:20.48] Now, overhead, you’re gunning in those Vs
[02:25.27] Where you had better find your peace
[02:28.16] Whether North, or South, or West, or East
[02:33.54] West or East
[02:37.10] And I had better find my way
[02:39.42] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[02:44.50] At last (at least)
[02:47.60] What’s redacted will repeat
[02:50.50] And you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat
[02:55.60] So we touch the heat
[03:01.20] And we cut facsimiles of love and death
[03:03.84] (just separate holes in sheets
[03:06.85] Where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see)
[03:09.96] And I cannot now, for the life of me, believe our talk –
[03:14.72] Our flock had cause to leave
[03:18.20] But do we?
[03:21.91] Do we?
[00:12.84] What we built, at the kiln that won' t be stilled
[00:20.65] Did not set well:
[00:23.50] The old veil of desire
[00:26.87] Like the vessels that we fired
[00:31.90] Fell thin as eggshells
[00:33.79] And every season, somebody burns
[00:37.29] Downtown, taking turns
[00:39.97] Taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose
[00:44.63] Now the wind blows coals over the hills. Honey
[00:47.84] I' ve been paying my bills
[00:50.85] But honey it' s been a long time since I' ve come to any use
[00:55.96] And it hurt me bad, when I heard the news
[00:58.63] That you' d got that call, and could not refuse
[01:01.86] A goose, alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese
[01:05.37] Who never find their peace, whether North, or South, or West, or East, West or East
[01:07.61] And I could never find my way
[01:19.48] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[01:26.54] Till the needing had ceased.
[01:31.65] Recently, a bottle of rye, and a friend, and me
[01:39.44] On our five loose legs
[01:42.52] Had a ramble, and spoke
[01:46.26] Of the scrambling of broken hopes, and goose eggs
[01:53.10] And of a stranger, long ago
[01:56.32] Not you, honey! You, I know.
[01:58.53] We just spoke of broken hopes and old strangers
[02:03.15] Now the wind blows coals over the sea. Tell you what, honey:
[02:10.59] You and me better run and see if we can' t contain them, first
[02:14.15] But you had somewhere that you had to go
[02:16.89] And you caught that flight out of Covelo
[02:20.48] Now, overhead, you' re gunning in those Vs
[02:25.27] Where you had better find your peace
[02:28.16] Whether North, or South, or West, or East
[02:33.54] West or East
[02:37.10] And I had better find my way
[02:39.42] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[02:44.50] At last at least
[02:47.60] What' s redacted will repeat
[02:50.50] And you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat
[02:55.60] So we touch the heat
[03:01.20] And we cut facsimiles of love and death
[03:03.84] just separate holes in sheets
[03:06.85] Where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see
[03:09.96] And I cannot now, for the life of me, believe our talk
[03:14.72] Our flock had cause to leave
[03:18.20] But do we?
[03:21.91] Do we?
[00:12.84] What we built, at the kiln that won' t be stilled
[00:20.65] Did not set well:
[00:23.50] The old veil of desire
[00:26.87] Like the vessels that we fired
[00:31.90] Fell thin as eggshells
[00:33.79] And every season, somebody burns
[00:37.29] Downtown, taking turns
[00:39.97] Taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose
[00:44.63] Now the wind blows coals over the hills. Honey
[00:47.84] I' ve been paying my bills
[00:50.85] But honey it' s been a long time since I' ve come to any use
[00:55.96] And it hurt me bad, when I heard the news
[00:58.63] That you' d got that call, and could not refuse
[01:01.86] A goose, alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese
[01:05.37] Who never find their peace, whether North, or South, or West, or East, West or East
[01:07.61] And I could never find my way
[01:19.48] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[01:26.54] Till the needing had ceased.
[01:31.65] Recently, a bottle of rye, and a friend, and me
[01:39.44] On our five loose legs
[01:42.52] Had a ramble, and spoke
[01:46.26] Of the scrambling of broken hopes, and goose eggs
[01:53.10] And of a stranger, long ago
[01:56.32] Not you, honey! You, I know.
[01:58.53] We just spoke of broken hopes and old strangers
[02:03.15] Now the wind blows coals over the sea. Tell you what, honey:
[02:10.59] You and me better run and see if we can' t contain them, first
[02:14.15] But you had somewhere that you had to go
[02:16.89] And you caught that flight out of Covelo
[02:20.48] Now, overhead, you' re gunning in those Vs
[02:25.27] Where you had better find your peace
[02:28.16] Whether North, or South, or West, or East
[02:33.54] West or East
[02:37.10] And I had better find my way
[02:39.42] To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
[02:44.50] At last at least
[02:47.60] What' s redacted will repeat
[02:50.50] And you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat
[02:55.60] So we touch the heat
[03:01.20] And we cut facsimiles of love and death
[03:03.84] just separate holes in sheets
[03:06.85] Where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see
[03:09.96] And I cannot now, for the life of me, believe our talk
[03:14.72] Our flock had cause to leave
[03:18.20] But do we?
[03:21.91] Do we?
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