by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

i found a little plot of land in the Garden of Eden it was dirt and dirt is all the same i tilled it with my two hands and i called it my very own there was no one to dispute my claim well, you'

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

My heart became a drunken runt* On the day I sunk in this shunt To tap me clean Of all the wonder And the sorrow I have seen Since I left my home: My home on the old Milk Lake Where the darkness does

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Twenty miles left to the show Hello, my old country, hello Stars are just beginning to appear And I have never in my life before been here And it's my heart, not me, who cannot drive At which co

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

I was tired o' being drunk My face cracked like a joke So I swung through here like a brace of jackrabbits With their necks all broke I stumbled at the door with my boot And I knocked against th

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

driven through by her own sword summer died last night, alone even the ghosts huddle up for warmth autumn has come to my hometown friendly voices, dead and gone singing star of the country down even

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Easy, easy, My man and me. We could rest and remain here, easily. We are tested and pained by what's beyond our bed; We are blessed and sustained by what is not said. No-one knows what is comin

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Last night, again, you were in my dreams several expendable limbs were at stake you were a prince, spinning rims all sentiments indian-given and half-baked I was brought in on a palanquin made of the

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Hey hey hey the end is near On a good day you can see the end from here But I won't turn back now though the way is clear I will stay for the remainder I saw a life and I called it mine I saw it

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

I can feel a difference Today, a difference All of us in our tents Fearing god like a mistress We lay on the rocks in the sun Watching you and your mama row in I sat up and blinked when you appeared

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

This is a song for Baby Birch though I will never know you. And at the back of what we've done there is the knowledge of you. Well, I wish we could take every path, could spend a hundred years a

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

From the courtyard, I floated in and watched it go down. Heard the cup drop; thought, "Well, that's why they keep them around." The blackguard sat hard, down, with no head on him now, a

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Whose is the hand that I will hold? Whose is the face I will see? Whose is the name that I will call When I am called to meet thee? In this life who did you love Beneath the drifting ashes? Beneath t

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

there is a spring not far from here the water runs both sweet and clear both sweet and clear and cold could crack your bones with veins of gold i stood a-wagging at the tap just a-waiting on the lagg

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Mercy me, the night is long take my pen to write you this song Lord, is it harder to carry on? or to know when you are done? all my life, I've felt as though I'm inside a beautiful memory, rep

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

So, so long ago, and so far away, when Time was just a line that you fed me, when you wanted to stay, we'd talk as soft as chalk, till morning came, as pale as a pearl: No time! No, no time! No

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

I will pack all my pretty dresses I will box up my high-heeled shoes A sparkling ring for every finger I'll put away and hide from view Coats of boucle, jacquard and cashmere Cartouche and tweed

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

We picked our way down to the beach, watching the waves dragging out of our reach: tangling tails, like a sodden sheet; dangling entrails from the gut of the sea. Hoarding our meals (alfalfa and roll

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

Allelu, allelu: I have died happy, and lived to tell the tale to you. I have slept for forty years, and woke to find me gone. I woke safe and warm in your arms. Not informed of the natural law, squat

by Joanna Newsom on album Yarn and Glue

by Joanna Newsom on album Have One On Me

I found a little plot of land, in the garden of Eden. It was dirt and dirt is all the same. I tilled it with my two hands, and I called it my very own; there was no one to dispute my claim. Well, you