This Side Of The Blue - Joanna Newsom

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[00:07.562]Svetlana sucks lemons across from me
[00:16.470]And I am progressing abominably
[00:24.516]And I do not know my own way to the sea
[00:33.842]But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me
[00:43.873]And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow
[00:51.605]And I find myself toeing th'Embarcadero
[00:59.389]And I find myself knowing
[01:03.203]The things that I knew
[01:08.428]Which is all that you can know
[01:12.137]On this side of the blue
[01:18.224]And Jaime has eyes
[01:21.802]Black and shiny as boots
[01:26.348]And they march at you two-by-two
[01:31.154](re-loo re-loo);
[01:34.263]When she looks at you
[01:36.797]You know she's nowhere near through
[01:44.006]It's the kindest heart beating
[01:47.141]This side of the blue
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[02:30.322]And the signifieds butt heads
[02:34.318]With the signifiers
[02:38.054]And we all fall down slack-jawed
[02:42.181]To marvel at words!
[02:46.021]When across the sky sheet the impossible birds
[02:55.974]In a steady illiterate movement homewards
[03:09.453]And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon
[03:16.872]See them rattle & boo
[03:20.242]See them shake, and see them loom
[03:24.604]See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus
[03:33.877]And see him navigate deftly this side of the blue
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[04:26.201]And the rest of our lives
[04:29.100]Will the moments accrue
[04:33.437]When the shape of their goneness
[04:36.859]Will flare up anew
[04:40.620]Then we do what we have to do
[04:44.565](re-loo re-loo)
[04:49.711]Which is all that you can do
[04:52.715]On this side of the blue
[04:59.193]Oh, it's all that you can do
[05:02.197]On this side of the blue
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