Cosmia - Joanna Newsom

[00:12.691]When you ate
[00:14.083]I saw your eyelashes
[00:23.763]Saw them shake like wind on rushes
[00:35.323]In the cornfield when she called me
[00:46.883]Moths surround me
[00:50.283]Thought they’d drown me
[00:57.378]And I miss your precious heart
[01:04.003]And I miss your precious heart
[01:14.994]Dried rose petals —
[01:16.415]redbrown circles —
[01:17.947]framed your eyes and
[01:19.315]stained your knuckles
[01:21.115]Dried rose petals —
[01:22.283]redbrown circles —
[01:23.995]framed your eyes and
[01:25.206]stained your knuckles
[01:40.838]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[01:44.322]brought you bread and water (Water, in)
[01:47.802]But though I tried so hard
[01:49.858]my little darlin
[01:51.643]I couldn’t keep the night from coming in
[01:55.419]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[01:59.217]brought me bread and water by the kith and the kin
[02:02.820]Now in the quiet hour
[02:04.938]when I am sleeping
[02:06.765]I cannot keep the night from coming in
[02:24.994]Why’ve you gone away?
[02:28.427]Gone away again?
[02:31.085]I’ll sleep through the rest of my days
[02:35.634]if you’ve gone away again
[02:38.523]I'll sleep through the rest of my days
[02:46.394]I'll sleep through the rest of my days
[02:49.842]And I will sleep through the rest of my days
[03:19.530]Why’ve you gone away, away
[03:27.282]Seven suns, seven suns away, away
[03:39.546]Away, away
[03:48.274]Can you hear me?
[03:49.313]Will you listen?
[03:50.739]Don’t come near me
[03:52.089]Don’t go missing
[03:53.746]And in the lissome light of evening:
[03:56.306]Help me, Cosmia; I’m grieving
[04:12.730]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[04:16.346]brought you bread and water (Water, in)
[04:19.873]But though I tried so hard
[04:22.273]my little darlin
[04:23.665]I couldn’t keep the night from coming in
[04:27.217]And all those lonely nights down by the river
[04:30.957]brought me bread and water by the kith and the kin
[04:34.812]Now in the quiet hour
[04:36.746]when I am sleeping
[04:38.641]I cannot keep the night from coming in
[04:52.857]Beneath the porch-light
[04:56.473]we’ve all been circling
[05:02.812]Beat our dust hearts
[05:06.474]singe our flour wings
[05:13.385]But in the corner
[05:16.393]something is happening!
[05:23.897]Wild Cosmia, what have you seen?
[05:34.553]Water were your limbs
[05:37.014]and the fire was your hair
[05:45.059]and then the moonlight caught your eye
[05:50.137]And you rose through the air
[05:55.873]well, if you’ve seen true light
[05:59.257]then this is my prayer:
[06:06.729]will you call me when you get there?
[06:12.240]And I miss your precious heart
[06:17.465]And I miss your precious heart
[06:22.831]and miss, and miss, and miss
[06:25.537]and miss, and miss, and miss
[06:28.640]and miss, and miss your heart
[06:39.665]But release your precious heart
[06:45.293]to its feast, for precious hearts