Kingfisher-Joanna Newsom

[ti:Kingfisher] [ar:Joanna Newsom] [al:Have One On Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Kingfisher (翠鸟) - Joanna Newsom [00:01.49]Whose is the hand that I will hold [00:05.80] [00:07.21]Whose is the face I will see [00:11.79] [00:13.39]Whose is the name that I will call [00:17.91] [00:19.16]When I am called to meet thee [00:23.59] [00:35.60]In this life who did you love [00:39.68] [00:41.23]Beneath the drifting ashes [00:45.56] [00:46.89]Beneath the sheeting banks of air [00:50.82] [00:51.65]That barrenly bore our rations [00:56.16] [01:08.00]When I could speak it was too late [01:12.45] [01:13.70]Didn't you hear me calling [01:17.14] [01:19.45]Didn't you see my heart leap like [01:23.43] [01:24.25]A pup in the constant barley [01:28.44] [01:41.35]In this new life where did you crouch [01:45.45] [01:46.90]When the sky had set to boiling [01:50.40] [01:52.36]Burning within seen from without [01:56.23] [01:57.15]And your gut was a serpent coiling [02:01.39] [02:03.15]And for the sake of that pito' snakes [02:07.81] [02:08.32]For whom did you allay your shyness [02:11.31] [02:13.73]And spend all your mercy and madness and grace [02:17.96]In a day beneath the bending cypress [02:21.41] [02:24.82]It was not on principle [02:26.47] [02:28.09]Show pro-heart that you have got gall [02:32.14] [02:33.68]A miracle [02:34.37] [02:35.89]I can bear a lot but not that pall [02:39.66] [02:40.41]I can bear a lot but not that pall [02:44.60] [02:45.25]Kingfisher sound the alarm [02:47.70] [02:49.42]Say "sweet little darling now come to my arms [02:52.97] [02:53.48]Tell me all about the love you left on the farm" [02:57.65] [02:58.51]He was a kind unhurried man [03:03.04] [03:03.70]With a heavy lip and a steady hand [03:07.72] [03:08.52]But he loved me just like a little child [03:12.28] [03:13.48]A little child loves a little lamb [03:17.14] [03:19.03]Thrown to the ground by something down there [03:24.30]Bitten by the bad air while the clouds tick [03:28.59] [03:30.32]Trying to read all the signs [03:33.50] [03:34.05]Preparing for when the bombs hit [03:38.05] [03:50.57]Hung from the underbelly of the earth [03:55.13] [03:56.07]While the stars skid away below [03:58.78] [03:59.80]Gormless and brakeless gravel-loose [04:03.03] [04:04.00]Falling silent as gavels in the snow [04:09.65] [04:19.89]I lay back and spit in my chaw [04:23.56] [04:24.26]Wrapped in the long arm of the law [04:27.92] [04:29.51]Who has seen it all [04:30.79] [04:31.63]I can bear a lot but not that pall [04:35.53] [04:36.31]I can bear a lot but not that pall [04:40.46] [04:41.30]Kingfisher cast your fly [04:43.69] [04:45.90]O lord it happens without even trying [04:48.95] [04:49.61]When I sling a low look from my shuttering eye [04:54.13] [04:55.13]Blows rain upon the one you loved [04:59.25] [05:00.44]And though you were only sparring [05:03.38] [05:05.37]There's blood on the eye unlace the glove [05:09.46] [05:10.23]Say honey I am not sorry [05:14.24] [05:26.50]Stand here and name the one you loved [05:30.28] [05:32.25]Beneath the drifting ashes [05:34.97] [05:38.41]And in naming rise above time [05:42.57] [05:44.00]As it flashing passes [05:46.54] [06:15.07]We came by the boatload [06:19.32] [06:21.57]And were immobilised [06:23.91] [06:27.82]Worshiping volcanoes [06:31.48] [06:34.24]Charting the loping skies [06:38.26] [06:40.44]The tides of the earth left [06:45.56] [06:46.87]Us bound and calcified and made as [06:52.65] [06:53.36]Ostinate as obsidian [06:56.08] [06:59.53]Unmoving save our eyes [07:03.58] [07:05.71]Just mooning and blinking [07:09.69] [07:11.44]From faces marked with coal [07:15.78] [07:17.86]Ash cooling and shrinking [07:22.09] [07:24.13]Cracks loud as thunder rolling I swear [07:28.92] [07:30.09]I know you you know me [07:34.78] [07:36.36]Where have we met before tell me true [07:41.58] [07:42.69]To whose authority [07:44.73] [07:49.13]Do you consign your soul [07:52.77] [07:53.88]I had a dream you came to me [07:58.09] [07:59.17]Saying you shall not do me harm anymore [08:02.27] [08:04.85]And with your knife you evicted my life [08:08.06] [08:08.68]From its little lighthouse on the seashore [08:12.47] [08:13.46]And I saw that my blood had no bounds [08:18.86] [08:19.62]Spreading in a circle like an atom bomb [08:23.82] [08:24.99]Soaking and felling everything in it's path [08:28.82]And welling in my heart like a birdbath [08:32.65] [08:34.18]It is too short the day we are born [08:38.77] [08:39.78]We commence with our dying [08:42.41] [08:44.18]Trying to serve with the heart of a child [08:48.60] [08:49.13]Kingfisher lie with the lion