I think that Joanna Newsom may have written some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Honestly, I have been moved to tears many times I have listened to Milk-Eyed Mender or Ys because her words are just so incredibly stunning and her voice and the harp show so much emotion in each album.
I saw you last night by the river
I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
And everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
The butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
And my clay-colored motherlessness rangily reclines
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines
And what's it mean when suddenly we're spent
And tell me true ambition came and reared its head and went far from you
Even mollusks have weddings, though solemn and leaden
But you dirge for the dead, and take no jam on your bread
Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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you're my joanna. how romantic
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