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joanna newsom - time, as a symptom lyrics

time p-ssed hard,
and the task was the hardest thing she’d ever do.
but she forgot,
the moment she saw you.

so it would seem to be true:
when cruel birth debases, we forget.
when cruel death debases,
we believe it erases all the rest
that precedes.

but stand brave, life-liver,
bleeding out your days
in the river of time.
stand brave:
time moves both ways,

in the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
joy of life;
the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
joy of life.

the moment of your greatest joy sustains:
not axe nor hammer,
tumor, tremor,
can take it away, and it remains.
it remains.

and it pains me to say, i was wrong.
love is not a symptom of time.
time is just a symptom of love

(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
joy of life;
the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
joy of life).

hardly seen, hardly felt-
deep down where your fight is waiting,
down ’till the light in your eyes is fading:
joy of life.
where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
bow like the field when the combs through it:
joy of life.
and every little gust that chances through
will dance in the dust of me and you,
with joy-of-life.
and in our perfect secret-keeping:
one ear of corn,
in silent, reaping
joy of life.

a way a lone a last a loved a long.
a cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend.
(areion, rharian, go free and graze. amen.)

a sh-r-, a tide, unmoored-a sight, abroad:
a dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god).
no time. no flock. no chime, no clock. no end.
white star, white ship-nightjar, transmit: transcend!

white star, white ship-nightjar, transmit: transcend!
white star, white ship-nightjar, transmit: transcend!
white star, white ship-nightjar, transmit: trans

- joanna newsom lyrics

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