Joanna Newsom - Occident lyrics

[Joanna Newsom - Occident lyrics]

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
'Til 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 alongside 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

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