live joanna newsom stuff (new songs)

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Stephen directed me towards these so i thought i'd share, because they're INCREDIBLE.



http://www.fromamouth.com/milkymoon/ filed under downloads. The suite of new songs from Green Man festival is probably the best.
http://www.fromamouth.com/milkymoon/mp3 ... _Suite.mp3 (sorry, i can't get the link to work at all because of the brackets; you'll just have to copy and paste)

Lyrical highlights:
and there was a boomin' above you that night
black airplanes flew over the sea
and they were lowin' and shiftin' like beached whales, shelled snails
as you strained and you squinted to see

scrape your knee, it's only skin
makes the sound of violins
and when you cut my hair and leave the birds all the trimmings
i am the happiest woman among all women

i have washed a thousand spiders down the drain
spiders ghosts hang soaped and dangelin'
hanging from the bloomin', bloomin' cherrytrees
in tiny nooses, safe from everyone

back on the patio watching the bats bring night in
while elsewhere estuaries of wax white wind
endlessly towards seashores unmapped

and the cities we passed were a flickering wasteland
but his hand in my hand made them hale and harmless

and down in the lowlands the crops are all coming; we have everything
life is thundering blissful t'wards death