North-Emmy the Great

[ti:North] [ar:Emmy the Great] [al:Virtue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:17.03]There's a place I'm gonna leave to [00:19.85]When all this questioning is through [00:23.60]I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North [00:27.41]Than my eyes have ever viewed [00:30.66]And though I know that the thought proceeds me [00:34.03]I know that others seek it too [00:37.59]But when I get where the needle leads me [00:41.28]Well I swear and I swear [00:43.35]You'll never lead me away again [00:51.91]And in the time when the peace of islands [00:55.03]Was first by human hand disturbed [00:58.85]They built their houses and they said obedience [01:02.53]Was all the lives of men were worth [01:05.85]And in the shadow of the temperance [01:08.60]They laid boundaries in the dirt [01:13.03]And when the door had a narrow entrance [01:15.85]With their hands on their shirts [01:18.47]They would pray for the non-believers [01:22.72] [01:24.91]And there's a place called North [01:27.28]And they're gathering there to sing [01:30.84]And I knock three times and beg them [01:33.97]But they will not let me in [01:38.28]And "Oh my girl" they say [01:41.41]"You're the carrier to no gain" [01:44.78]But I lay what I can somewhere North of this and [01:50.44]Would you turn me away again [01:51.57] [01:59.32]And do you go where the needle leads to [02:01.38]And when you get there will you change [02:05.94]Out where the nights are soft [02:07.94]And now you go because you think [02:09.69]That Paradise should be tamed [02:12.76]And how you live is by a map of humanity [02:16.51]And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves [02:19.88]But I've seen what you see [02:21.88]It looks different to me [02:23.63]I see lights to the shore [02:25.51]And all these hearts beating other rhythms [02:30.76]Now they die to be born [02:36.07]And all their mysteries are dying with them [02:42.44]And there's a place called North [02:44.88]And you're gathering there to sing [02:48.32]And I knock three times and beg you [02:51.38]But you will not let me in [02:56.32]But though I love so hard [02:58.94]Now I'm the carrier to this gate [03:02.40]And I lay what I can [03:05.90]Somewhere North of us and [03:08.04]Would you turn me away again [03:10.40] [03:24.77]And would these winds would lift [03:27.21]And they carry me to your door [03:30.78]And I knock three times and tell you [03:33.84]I can't help where I was born [03:38.59]But don't I love enough [03:41.35]Isn't holiness where it forms [03:44.78]If I take what I have to the North [03:50.03]Is there room on your piece of Heaven [04:09.85] [04:18.53]Oh would you turn me away again