WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Joanna Newsom - Emily Chords | Ver. 3
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The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
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Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh
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Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
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Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
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There is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
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Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow
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and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow
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and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the south below
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We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
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We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
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From the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going
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and the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'
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Helps me find my way back in
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From the place where I have been
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and Emily, I saw you last night by the river!
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I dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water!
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Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
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In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
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Anyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water
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You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
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Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
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I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
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That the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see
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and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
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and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived
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and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee
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You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
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Threw the windows wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
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The whole world -- stopped! -- to hear you hollerin'
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Then you looked down and saw now what was happenin'
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The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
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Though I have never known a way to border 'em in
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So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
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Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
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and the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
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The talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'!
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In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
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I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
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and row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden
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In search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me
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Help me find my way back in
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and there are worries where I've been
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and say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered!
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Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
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Flanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper
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Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter!
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and I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better!
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For what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
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Let us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,
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The ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever!
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Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
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There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning
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Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
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Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
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Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow
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With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows
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and everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
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Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
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and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines
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Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines!
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Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
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The way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
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Squint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders
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Just asterisms in the stars set order
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We could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked
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In the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked!
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In bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being!
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'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this!
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Told: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see!
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and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee!
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and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived!
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and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee!
