Occident - Joanna Newsom
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've felt as though
I'm inside a beautiful
Memory replaying
With the sound turned
Down low
Long life
Show your face
Slow heart
Curb your taste
Smoke me out of my hiding place
Long life
State your case
What in the world are we waiting for
Building glowing cities 'long the shore
Where the wind batters in
Baiting my kin
Like a matador
So much value placed upon
What lies just beyond our plans
Waving my handkerchief
Running along
Till the end of the sand
Long life
Speak your name
So tired of the guessing game
But something is moving
Just out of frame
Slow heart
Brace and aim
Breaching slowly
'Cross the sea
One mast
Flash like the stinger of a bee
To take you away
A swarming fleet
Is gonna take you from me
The universe is getting loose
Sodden spread
From some leaden disuse
Rushing unhinged
Towards diminishing lights
Like a headless caboose
I'll wait for you
'Longside the ocean
And make do
With my no skin
But then
Long life
Will you let me in
And then slow heart
Are you gonna know him
Long life
Speak your name
I wait while I decry the wait
And when I die
May I relate
Slow heart congregate
To leave your home
And your family
For some distortion of property
Well darling
I can't go
But you may stay
Here with me
