Joanna Newsom Pt II.

Call me crazy but this seriously could be one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The lyrics are incredible. If you don’t get a little teary eyed while listening, you have no soul. Spend $.99 on iTunes and buy it. I promise you won’t have to listen to it 1,000 times before you like it.  Here are a couple verses:

I wanted to say, ‘why the long face?’
Sparrow perch and play songs of long face.
Burro buck and bray songs of long face.
Sings ‘i will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
Just to lift your long face.
And though it may be madness, i will take to the grave
Your precious long face.
And though our bones they may break and our souls separate
Why the long face?
And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
Why the long face?’

But what was yours and mine
Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
But if it’s all just the same
Then say my name, say my name,
Say my name in the morning so that i know when the wave breaks
I wasn’t born of a whistle
Or milked from a thistle at twilight
No, i was all horns and thorns
Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
And grow evermore lighter and lighter
You would have seen me through
But i could not undo that desire

From the top of the flight
Of the wide white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?

“Sawdust & Diamonds” from the album Ys