Time, As a Symptom - Joanna Newsom

[00:10.45]Time passed hard,
[00:14.86]and the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do.
[00:22.70]But she forgot,
[00:27.74]the moment she saw you.
[00:34.89]So it would seem to be true:
[00:40.68]when cruel birth debases, we forget.
[00:47.58]When cruel death debases,
[00:51.62]we believe it erases all the rest
[00:57.68]that precedes.
[01:01.73]But stand brave, life-liver,
[01:08.60]bleeding out your days
[01:11.25]in the river of time.
[01:17.22]Stand brave:
[01:22.43]time moves both ways,
[01:28.09]in the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:35.82]joy of life;
[01:41.90]the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[01:49.14]joy of life.
[01:55.70]The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
[02:02.69]not axe nor hammer,
[02:04.93]tumor, tremor,
[02:06.44]can take it away, and it remains.
[02:15.10]It remains.
[02:21.89]And it pains me to say, I was wrong.
[02:36.26]Love is not a symptom of time.
[02:43.24]Time is just a symptom of love
[02:49.05](and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[02:56.43]joy of life;
[03:02.58]the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
[03:08.91]joy of life).
[03:13.61]Hardly seen, hardly felt–
[03:15.92]deep down where your fight is waiting,
[03:18.95]down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
[03:22.33]joy of life.
[03:28.02]Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
[03:31.72]bow like the field when the combs through it:
[03:35.43]joy of life.
[03:41.11]And every little gust that chances through
[03:44.58]will dance in the dust of me and you,
[03:48.41]with joy-of-life.
[03:54.06]And in our perfect secret-keeping:
[03:57.34]One ear of corn,
[03:59.06]in silent, reaping
[04:01.75]joy of life.
[04:06.33]Joy! Again, around–a pause, a sound–a song:
[04:13.30]a way a lone a last a loved a long.
[04:18.98]A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend.
[04:24.75](Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
[04:31.26]A shore, a tide, unmoored–a sight, abroad:
[04:36.96]A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god).
[04:42.75]No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end.
[04:48.07]White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:54.26]White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[04:59.03]White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
[05:04.73]White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: trans!