What We Have Known-Joanna Newsom

[ti:What We Have Known] [ar:Joanna Newsom] [al:Yarn And Glue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What We Have Known - Joanna Newsom [00:01.73]Tadpole buoyant as basalt [00:06.20] [00:07.75]Seahorse horsing in assault [00:12.19] [00:13.62]The owlet in his greenery [00:18.24] [00:19.53]The narwhal in his cup of sea [00:24.00] [00:25.04]They all believe [00:27.04]They all believe [00:28.43] [00:36.60]But collusion bleeds through back allies [00:41.14] [00:41.72]From parapets that end on feet [00:47.79]When one is weak they discreetly meet [00:52.23] [00:53.19]They throw the bones into the street [00:58.40]And they progress [01:00.46]And we retreat [01:01.92] [01:11.03]And all the books our fathers wrote [01:16.10] [01:22.09]Are in the middle of the road [01:26.92] [01:32.99]Little by little we implode [01:38.22] [01:43.50]History brittle brown and broke [01:48.14] [01:54.09]We can't remember what was spoke [01:58.94] [02:04.03]So we stare in wonder at the smoke [02:08.75] [02:14.39]What it begets is born alone [02:18.77] [02:24.39]We know not now what we have known [02:28.93] [02:32.91]Ladies breathe deep against your whalebones [02:41.34] [02:43.34]For your children come home made of stone [02:51.31] [02:58.17]The terror seething sees a way [03:02.59] [03:03.17]Or like the wheezing of the bay [03:07.95] [03:08.77]In miniature agonies [03:12.95] [03:14.42]They travel westward on the breeze [03:18.43] [03:20.28]Bring us all to our knees [03:23.25] [03:30.85]The dappled horse the sorrowed mare [03:36.08]Eyes that do not see but stare [03:40.73]Beneath boots as black as malachi [03:45.46] [03:46.23]He drives a nag into the night [03:50.84] [03:51.48]Into the night [03:52.81] [04:03.78]And all the baby boys we've borne [04:08.45] [04:14.34]With eyes averted from the storm [04:19.32] [04:24.92]Sent off to die in perfect form [04:29.51] [04:35.40]We know n't now what we have known [04:39.98] [04:45.86]Satellite photos rhetoric [04:50.48] [04:56.18]See how the euphemisms stick [05:00.86] [05:06.69]And when they come back broke and burned [05:11.30] [05:16.88]Those who return have not returned