Joanna Newsom

I found a little plot of land
in the garden of eden
it was dirt and dirt is all the same
I tilled it with my two hands
and I called it my very own
Wel...

This is the song for Baby Birch
Though I will never know you
And at the back of what we've done
There is the knowledge of you
Well I wish we could tak...

My heart became a drunken runt
On the day I sunk in this shunt
To tap me clean
Of all the wonder
And the sorrow I have seen
Since I left my home:
My h...

Last night, again
You were in my dreams
Several expendable limbs were at stake
All sentiments indian-given
And half-baked
I was brought in on a palanq...

Mercy me, the night is long
Take my pen to write you this song
Lord is it harder to carry on
Or to know when you are done?
All my life I felt as thoug...

Erin, Erin, Erin!
 Erin across America
 do now cheer me on
 can't you hear the song for you?
 quick, now - caramel dip
 give it up to the runaway ship...

I\'m a sensitive bore
And you\'re markedly more
And I\'m oozing suprise
But it\'s late in the day
And you\'re well on your way
What was golden went gr...

I'll tell it as I best know how,
And that's the way it was told to me: I
Must have been a thief or a whore,
Then surely was thrown overboard,
Where, t...

When you ate
I saw your eyelashes
Saw them shake like wind on rushes
In the cornfield when she called me
Moths surround me
Thought they’d drown me
And...

A little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadow
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
There is a rusty ...

And there was a booming above you
That night black airplanes flew over the sea
And they were lowing and shifting like
Beached whales
Shelled snails
As...

When you ate
I saw your eyelashes
Saw them shake like wind on rushes
In the cornfield when she called me
Moths surround me
Thought they’d drown me
And...

We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right-on is right on
It was right on
We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right...

Sadie, white coat
You carry me home
And bury this bone
And take this pine-cone
Bury this bone to gnaw on it later
Gnawing on the telephone
The notion ...

Oh, where is your inflammatory writ?
Your text that would incite a light, "Be lit"?
Our music deserving devotion unswerving
Cry "Do I deserve her?" wi...

Svetlana sucks lemons across from me
And I am progressing abominably
And I do not know my own way to the sea
But the saltiest sea knows its own way to...

I\'m a sensitive bore
And you\'re markedly more
And I\'m oozing suprise
But it\'s late in the day
And you\'re well on your way
What was golden went gr...

Female  Chorus:
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.
Male  Chorus:
It's...

We should shine a light on, a light on
　
And the Book of Right On is right on
It was right on
　
We should shine a light on, a light on
　
And the Book ...

Sending the first scouts over
Back from the place beyond the dawn:
Horse, bear your broken soldier
Eyes frozen wide at what went on
And Time, in our c...

I believed they had got what they came for;
I believed our peril was done
On the eve of the last of the Great Wars
After three we had narrowly won
(Bu...

A diver is my love
(and I am his, if I am not deceived)
who takes one breath above, for every hour below the sea;
who gave to me a jewel
worth twice t...

The cause is Ozymandian
The map of Sapokanikan
Is sanded and bevelled
The land lone and levelled
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
Which plays alon...

What we built, at the kiln that won’t be stilled
Did not set well:
The old veil of desire
Like the vessels that we fired
Fell thin as eggshells
And ev...

I'm ashamed of half the things I say.
I'm ashamed to have turned out this way,
and i desire to make amends:
But it don't make no difference now,
and n...

It's the same old lady, putting out the wash,
Standing in the rain, in her mackintosh,
Same old lady standing in the rain
The thought of New York was ...

When you ate
I saw your eyelashes
Saw them shake like wind on rushes
In the cornfield when she called me
Moths surround me
Thought they’d drown me
And...

Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
There is a rusty ...

Of the wide, white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?
There's a bell in my ears
There's the wide, white roar
Hear it fall fo...

We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right-on's right on
It was right on
We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right-...

We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right-on's right on
It was right on
We should shine a light on
A light on
And the book of right-...