Kingfisher Lyrics - Joanna Newsom

Kingfisher Lyrics Joanna Newsom


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 the shifting banks of air
That barely pour out rations

When I could speak it was too late
Didn't you hear me calling?
Didn't you see my heart leap like a pup
in a constant barley

In this life where did you crouch
When the sky had set to boiling
Burning within seen from without
And your gut was a serpent coiling?



And for the sake of that pit of snakes
For whom did you relay your shyness
And spend all your mercy and madness and grace
In a day beneath the bending cypress

It was not on principle
Show your heart but you have got all
A miracle
I can bear a lot but not that pall
I can bear a lot but not that pall
Kingfisher, sound the alarm
Say sweet little darling, now come to my arms
Tell me all about the love you left on the farm

He was a kind and hurried man
With a heavy lip and a steady hand
But he loved me just like a little child
A little child loves a little lamb

Thrown to the ground by something down there
Bitten by the bad air, will the clouds tick
Trying to read all the signs
Preparing for when the bombs hit.

Hung from the underbelly of the earth
While the stars get away below
Gormless and brakeless, gravel loose
Falling silent as gavels in the snow

La-la-la .. la la
La la la la .. la la la la la

Lay back and spit in my jar
Wrapped in the long arm of the law
You see it all
I can bear a lot but not that pall
I can bear a lot but not that pall
Kingfisher, cast your rod
Oh lord, it happens without even trying
When I sling a low from a sheltering ..

Blows rain upon the one you loved
And though you were only sparring
There's blood on the eye, unlace the glove
Say, 'Honey, I am not sorry'

Stand here and name the one you loved
Beneath the drifting ashes
And in naming rise above
Time as it, flashing, passes ... ooooooh

We came by the boatload
And were immobilized
Worshiping volcanoes
Charting the loping skies

The tides of the earth left
Us bound and calcified
And made as obstinate as obsidian
Unmoving sable eyes anekatips.com

Just mooning and blinking
Them faces marked with coal
Ash coolin' and shrinking
Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

I know you, you know me
Where have we met before?
Tell me true

To whose authority
Do you consign your soul?

I had a dream you came to me
Said you shall ....
And with your knife you evicted my life
From its little lighthouse on the seashore

And I saw that my blood had no bound
Spreading in a circle like an animal
Soaking and filling everything in its path
A well in my heart like a birdbath

Oh, it is too short
The day we are born
We commence without dinning
Trying to serve with the heart of a child
Kingfisher lie with the lion