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Emily by Joanna Newsom

those Pleiades loosed in December


I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always
The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the
remember
sparrow
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of
That the meteorite is the source of the light
the pharaoh
And the meteor's just what we see
A little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the
through the meadow
fire that propelled it to thee
Do you remember what they called up to you
and me in our window?
And the meteorite's just what causes the light
And the meteor's how it's perceived
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void
Sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
that lies quiet in offering to thee
Down into the bones of the birches
And the spires of the churches
You came and lay a cold compress upon the
Jutting out from the shadows
mess I'm in
The oak and the axe, and the old smokestacks
Threw the window wide and cried, "Amen! Amen!
and the bale and the barrow
Amen!"
And everything sloped like it was dragged from a
The whole world stopped to hear you hollering
rope
You looked down and saw now what was
In the mouth of the south below
happening
We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and
The lines are fading in my kingdom
grey
Though I have never known the way to border
We thought our very hearts would up and melt
them in
away
So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and
Like that snow in the nighttime
the grouse and the horse and the hen
Just going
Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was
And going
once a tidy pen
And the stirring of wind chimes
And the mail is late and the great estates are not
In the morning
lit from within
In the morning
The talk in town's becoming downright sickening
Helps me find my way back in
From the place where I have been
In due time we will see the far butte lit by a flare
I've seen your bravery, and I will follow you there
And, Emily - I saw you last night by the river
And row through the nighttime
I dreamed you were skipping little stones across
Gone healthy
the surface of the water
Gone healthy all of a sudden
Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and
In search of a midwife
slipped under forever
Who could help me
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd
Who could help me
been breathing on a mirror
Help me find my way back in
There are worries where I've been
Anyhow - I sat by your side, by the water
You taught me the names of the stars overhead
And say, say, say in the lee of the bay; don't
that I wrote down in my ledger
be bothered
Though all that I knew of the rote universe were
Leave your troubles here where the tugboats

shear the water from the water


Flanked by furrows, curling back, like a match
held up to a newspaper
Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter
And I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to
say I knew you better
What they've seen is just a beam of your sun
that banishes winter

In the broad daylight at this thing


Joy
Landlocked
In bodies that don't keep
Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
Until we don't be told
Take this
And eat this

Let us go, though we know it's a hopeless


endeavor
The ties that bind, they are barbed and spined
and hold us close forever
Though there is nothing would help me come to
grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
There is a song I woke with on my lips as you
sailed your great ship toward the morning

Told
The meteorite is the source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the
fire that propelled it to thee

And the meteorite's just what causes the light


And the meteor's how it's perceived
And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void
Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee- that lies quiet in offering to thee
deep by now
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the
plow
Youth by Daughter
Peonies nod in the breeze and while they wetly
bow
Shadows settle on the place, that you left
With hydrocephalitic listlessness ants mop up
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness
their brow
Destroy the middle, it's a waste of time
From the perfect start to the finish line
And everything with wings is restless, aimless,
drunk and dour
And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones
The butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly 'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted
hours
lungs
And my clay-colored motherlessness rangily
Setting fire to our insides for fun
reclines
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
Come on home, now, all my bones are dolorous The lovers that went wrong
with vines
We are the reckless
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time
We are the wild youth
tonight
Chasing visions of our futures
The way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of
One day we'll reveal the truth
light
That one will die before he gets there
Squint skyward and listen
And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones
Loving him, we move within his borders
'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and
Just asterisms in the stars' set order
they are gone
We're setting fire to our insides for fun
Where we could stand for a century
Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked
Staring
our home
With our heads cocked
It was a flood that wrecked this

And you caused it


And you caused it
And you caused it

And the sight of your two shoes sitting in the


bathtub
Let me know that I shouldn't give up just yet

Well I've lost it all, I'm just a silouhette


A lifeless face that you'll soon forget
My eyes ae damp from the words you left
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest

Cause I'm gonna take it from Simon


And then I'm gonna duck out behind them
If I ever had a chance it's now then
but I never had the feeling I could offer that to
you

And if you're in love, then you are the lucky one


'Cause most of us are bitter over someone
Setting fire to our insides for fun
To distract our hearts from ever missing them
But I'm forever missing him

To offer it to you would be cruel


When all I want to do is use, use you

And you caused it


And you caused it
And you caused it

I know, you'll say


I'm not doing it right
but this is how I want it

Diplomat's Son by Vampire Weekend

I can't go back
To how I felt before
There's--

It's not right but it's now or never


And if I wait could I ever forgive myself?

He was a diplomat's son


It was '81

That night I smoked a joint


With my best friend
We found ourselves in bed
When I woke up he was gone

On a night when the moon glows yellow in the


riptide
With the light from the TV's buzzing in the house He was the diplomat's son
It was '81
Cause I'm gonna cut it where I can
And then I'm gonna duck out behind them
Looking out at the ice cold water all around me
If I ever had a chance it's now then
I can't feel any traces of that other place
But I never had the feeling I could offer that to
you
In the dark when the wind comes racing off the
river
To offer it to you would be cruel
There's a car all black with diplomatic plates
When all I want to do is use, use you
He was a diplomat's son
It was '81

Oxford Comma by Vamire Weekend

Dressed in white with my car keys hidden in the Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
kitchen
I've seen those English dramas too, they're cruel
I could sleep wherever I lay my head
So if there's any other way to spell the word

It's fine with me, with me


Why would you speak to me that way?
Especially when I always said that I
Haven't got the words for you
All your diction dripping with disdain
Through the pain
I always tell the truth

Fractured moonlight on the sea


Reflections still look the same to me
As before I went under
And it's peaceful in the deep
'Cause either way you cannot breathe
No need to pray, no need to speak
Now I am under

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?


Oh, and it's breaking over me
I climbed to Dharamsala too, I did
A thousand miles out to the sea bed
I met the highest Lama, his accent sounded fine Found the place to rest my head
To me, to me
(Never let me go, never let me go
Check your handbook, it's no trick
Never let me go, never let me go)
Take the chapstick, put it on your lips
Crack a smile, adjust my tie
And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
Know your boyfriend, unlike other guys
And all this devotion was rushing over me
And the questions I have for a sinner like me
Why would you lie about how much coal you
But the arms of the ocean deliver me
have?
Why would you lie about something dumb like
Though the pressure's hard to take
that?
It's the only way I can escape
Why would you lie about anything at all?
It seems a heavy choice to make
First the window, then it's to the wall
But now I am under, oh
Lil' Jon, he always tells the truth
And it's breaking over me
Check your passport, it's no trick
A thousand miles down to the sea bed
Take the chapstick, put it on your lips
I found the place to rest my head
Crack a smile, adjust my tie
Know your butler, unlike other guys
(Never let me go, never let me go
Never let me go, never let me go)
Why would you lie about how much coal you
have?
And the arms of the ocean are carrying me
Why would you lie about something dumb like
(So cold and so sweet)
that?
And all this devotion was rushing out of me
Why would you lie about anything at all?
And the questions I have for a sinner like me
First the window, then it's through the wall
But the arms of the ocean deliver me
Why would you tape my conversations?
Show your paintings at the United Nations
And it's over and I'm going under
Lil' Jon, he always tells the truth
But I'm not giving up
I'm just giving in
Oh, slipping underneath
Never Let Me Go by Florence + the Machine So cold and so sweet
Looking up from underneath

In the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold

And all this devotion, well, I never knew at all


And the questions I have for a sinner released
In the arms of the ocean deliver me

I know that you will


Will you still love me when I'm no longer
beautiful?

(Never let me go, never let me go


Never let me go, never let me go)

I've seen the world, lit it up


As my stage now
Channeling angels in the new age now
Hot summer days, rock 'n' roll
The way you play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

Deliver me
(Never let me go, never let me go
Never let me go, never let me go)
Never let me go, never let me go)
Deliver me
(Never let me go, never let me go)
Never let me go, never let me go)
Deliver me
Never let me go, never let me go
And it's over
I'm going under
But I'm not giving up
I'm just giving in
Ah, slipping underneath
Wooh, so cold, but so sweet

Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey


I've seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
And Bel Air now
Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will

Will you still love me


When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer
beautiful?
Dear Lord, when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you'll let him in
Father tell me if you can
Oh that grace, oh that body
Oh that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer
beautiful?
Will you still love me when I'm no longer
beautiful?
Will you still love me when I'm not young and
beautiful?

Holy Roller Novocaine by The Kings of Leon


My darling you look lovely
I've come to lay you down

Uncover your head and submit to me


We'll make a joyful sound
I don't care if you're by yourself
Or you're all alone when you need my help
Keep that smile on your pretty face
Cause you don't have much I can't take away

Lord's gonna get us back

Don't you worry baby


You won't feel a thing
Close your eyes
Holy roller Novocaine

Lord's gonna get


Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
I know, I know

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Lord's gonna
Lord's gonna
Lord's gonna
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Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
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Lord's gonna get
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Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
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You'll be hearin' me comin'


But I can't come inside
I'll be out back in my white Cadillac
Won't you join me for a ride
We'll go up to the mountain top
There I'll show all the goods I got
Don't look back keep your eyes ahead
This could be the night that the moon goes red,
oh Lord!

All the world is moanin'


And baby so am I
I'm just givin' you warning
And I'm telling you why

Henry Kelley by Antsy Pants


Don't you worry baby
You won't feel a thing
Close your eyes
Holy roller Novocaine
Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
Lord's gonna get
I know, I know

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Lord's gonna get us back
Lord's gonna get us back

Henry Kelly climbed to the top of the tree


He was only four or five
He took his big wheel to the top of the tree and
tried to take a ride
Henry Kelly fell and screamed like hell as his
body bounced off the branches
He fell from the top of the tree to the ground and
there wasn't a tooth left in his mouth when he
landed
And the grown ups said "Oh Henry, Henry Kelly
don't you see you could have died?"
But the kids said "Henry Kelly you're our hero

You can't tell if somethings possible if you don't


try"

In the city that we love


Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above

Henry Kelly waited for his big teethe to grow in


Then he grew up and he is fine
But if you close your eyes,
And unless you've heard the story told you might Does it almost feel like
not even notice that he has a crooked smile
Nothing changed at all?
So all you kids with over protective parents now And if you close your eyes,
listen here to me
Does it almost feel like
Go out and try stuff, get dirty, get hurt, don't be You've been here before?
so scared of everything
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
And the grown ups said "Oh Henry Henry Kelly
don't you see you could have died?"
We were caught up and lost in all of our vices
But the kids said "Henry Kelly you're our hero
In your pose as the dust settles around us
Can't tell if somethings possible if you don't try"
And the walls kept tumbling down
Kids need to see that kids can be kids and
In the city that we love
maybe get hurt sometimes
Great clouds roll over the hills
They might break some bones or lose some teeth Bringing darkness from above
but they hardly ever die
I hope that legends still get passed from kid to
But if you close your eyes,
kid these days
Does it almost feel like
About the crazy stunts tried by other kids both
Nothing changed at all?
long ago and far away
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Like the one about girl that made a plastic
You've been here before?
parachute
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
Jumped off the roof and broke her knees
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
Or how Gerald McGuire lost one of his balls when
he flipped his A TV
Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
Or how Henry Kelly climbed to the top of the
Oh where do we begin?
tree
The rubble or our sins?
He was only four or five
He took his big wheel to the top of the tree and And the walls kept tumbling down
tired to take a ride
In the city that we love
He took his big wheel to the top of the tree and Great clouds roll over the hills
tried to take a ride
Bringing darkness from above

Pompeii by Bastille
I was left to my own devices
Many days fell away with nothing to show
And the walls kept tumbling down

But if you close your eyes,


Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?


If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like
nothing changed at all?

Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds


Primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help but I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave
Primadonna girl,
Would you do anything for me?
Buy a big diamond ring for me?
Would you get down on your knees for me?
Pop the pretty question right now, baby
Beauty queen on a silver screen
Living life like I'm in a dream
I know I've got a big ego
I really don't know why it's such a big deal,
though
And I'm sad to the core, core, core
Every day is a chore, chore, chore
When you feel of a whole more more
I wanna be adored
'Cause I'm a primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count me to misbehave
Primadonna girl fill the void, up with Celluloid
Take a picture, I'm with the boys
Get what I want 'cause I ask for it
Not because I'm really that deserving of it
Living life like I'm in a play
In the lime light, I want to stay

I know I've got a big ego


I really don't know why it's such a big deal,
though
Going up, going down, down, down
Anything for the crown, crown, crown
With the lights dimming down, down, down
I spin around
'Cause I'm a primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave
Primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave
Primadonna girl

riding my bicycle by team me


Bloodsucking ones
tapping your shoulder
finally
at last
I guess you made it
It makes your mother smile
and now she cant stop her flood
of compliments
I guess you made it
Rediscover her
let her know
whats on your mind
on your mind
go up and tell her

Tired teen machine


design these days
these rhapsodies
melodies
with all the colours that you want
Through the eyes and ears
and to your brain
dance the dance
sing the words
you know you need it
Then Ill sing for you
a lullaby
a rhapsody
a melody
with all the colours that you want
with all the colours in the world
with all the colours that you want
'cause you know so well
this could easily be all you'll ever get (x8)

So lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
'Cause they took your loved ones
But returned them in exchange for you
But would you have it any other way?
Would you have it any other way?
You could have it any other way
'Cause she's a cruel mistress
And the bargain must be made
But oh, my love, don't forget me
When I let the water take me
So, lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the over flow
Pockets full of stones
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow

Lay me down
Let the only sound
What the water gave me by Florence + the Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
Machine
Time it took us
To where the water was
That's what the water gave me
And time goes quicker
Between the two of us
Oh, my love, don't forsake me
Take what the water gave me
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
And oh, poor Atlas
The world's a beast of a burden
You've been holding on a long time
And all this longing
And the ships are left to rust
That's what the water gave us

Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Weathervanes and Chemicals by Team Me
As the mountains melts together with the sunrise
You tell me about the time
When you turned yourself into a stranger,
And all the chemicals were dancing in your blood
When you dear suddenly felt seasick.
Because you thought all lies were revealed.
And the thing that I felt when you told me
About that house with that singing weathervane
AHHH,AH,AH,AH,AH,AH,AH,AH (x4)
Oh, determined heart please translate it!
These cryptic messages hidden in between,
Her moon and her sky and her oceans
Cause I don't seem to understand them
anymore.
Now the bachelor seems to wind up in the corner.
And his army of lovers they have left.

And the breakman is obviously sleeping.


Cause this train is going faster than light.

suddenly feel her

Fool by Team Me

Holocene by Bon Iver

these clever phrases you made up


made up and memorized
memorized
you pretend youre well-read
but everyone knows the truth
knows the truth

"Someway, baby, it's part of me, apart from me"


You're laying waste to Halloween
You fucked it friend, it's on it's head, it struck the
street
You're in Milwaukee, off your feet

~fool (x2)
way too caught up in yourself
you run while the others walk
while the others talk
at your feet lies a pearl
the key to your everything
your tragedy
when the preacher shuts his books
and speaks straight from his heart
you suddenly see all
suddenly feel all
as the four winds get a hold
of every bone you own
you suddenly see her
suddenly feel her
these clever phrases you made up
made up and memorized
memorized
you pretend youre well read
but everyone knows the truth
knows the truth
when the preacher shuts his books
and speaks straight from his heart
you suddenly see all
suddenly feel all

~fool (x2)

And at once I knew I was not magnificent


Strayed above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
And I could see for miles, miles, miles
3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
Was where we learned to celebrate
Automatic bought the years you'd talk for me
That night you played me 'Lip Parade'
Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
Saying nothing, that's enough for me
And at once I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle (Jagged
vacance, thick with ice)
And I could see for miles, miles, miles
Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow
bright
Above my brother, I and tangled spines
We smoked the screen to make it what it was to
be
Now to know it in my memory
And at once I knew I was not magnificent
High above the highway aisle (Jagged vacance,
thick with ice)
But I could see for miles, miles, miles
Run by Vampire Weekend

as the four winds get a hold


of every bone you own
you suddenly see her
suddenly feel her

Every dollar counts


And every morning hurts
We mostly work to live
Until we live to work

when the preacher shuts his books


and speaks straight from his heart
you suddenly see all
suddenly feel all

She said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."


But change in rows
It struck me that the two of us could run

as the four winds get a hold


of every bone you own
you suddenly see her

Words away from cars


And all the stars in bars
Where a little bit of condensation means so much
And a little bit of change is all your little fingers

touch
I said, "You know, there's nowhere else to go."
But change in rolls
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
But I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And a little battered radio
We could try
So lead my feet away
Cause all they do is stay
And I don't think your eyes
Have ever looked surprised
She said, "You know, there's nowhere left to go."
But with her fund
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
If I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And battered radio
We could try

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