In California-Joanna Newsom

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[00:00.00]In California - Joanna Newsom
[00:18.06]My heart became a drunken runt
[00:25.09]On the day I sunk in this shunt
[00:32.73]To tap me clean
[00:36.11]Of all the wonder
[00:39.60]And the sorrow I have seen
[00:44.18]Since I left my home
[00:50.54]My home on the old milk lake
[00:56.94]Where the darkness does fall so fast
[01:02.42]It feels like some kind of mistake
[01:08.82]Just like they told you it would
[01:16.77]Just like the tulgeywood
[01:23.41]When I came into my land
[01:29.57]I did not understand
[01:37.56]Neither dry rot nor the burn pile
[01:41.45]Nor the bark beetle nor the dry well
[01:46.46]Nor the black bear
[01:52.70]But there is another
[01:56.42]Who is a little older
[02:00.55]When I broke my bone
[02:03.41]He carried me up from the riverside
[02:09.22]To spend my life
[02:10.91]In spitting distance
[02:12.98]Of the love that I have known
[02:17.43]I must stay here in an endless eventide
[02:25.02]And if you come and see me
[02:28.69]You will upset the order
[02:33.11]You cannot come and see me
[02:36.89]For I set myself apart
[02:41.42]But when you come and see me
[02:45.71]In California
[02:50.10]You cross the border of my heart
[02:58.14]Well I have sown untidy furrows
[03:01.60]Across my soul
[03:03.03]But I am still a coward
[03:06.00]Content to see my garden grow
[03:09.20]So sweet full
[03:11.01]Of someone else's flowers
[03:14.28]But sometimes
[03:15.15]I can almost feel the power
[03:21.90]Sometimes I am so in love with you
[03:29.77]Like a little clock
[03:31.99]That trembles on the edge of the hour
[03:37.71]Only ever calling out cuckoo cuckoo
[03:45.28]When I called you
[03:49.46]You little one
[03:54.26]In a bad way
[03:57.15]Did you love me
[03:59.27]Do you spite me
[04:02.33]Time will tell if I can be well
[04:13.11]And rise to meet you rightly
[04:19.04]While moving across my land
[04:26.76]Brandishing themselves
[04:29.39]Like a burning branch
[04:34.17]Advance the tallow colored
[04:37.79]Walleyed deer
[04:42.28]Quiet as gondoliers
[04:48.71]While I wait all night for you
[04:52.88]In California
[04:56.59]Watching the fox pick off my goldfish
[05:01.48]From their sorry golden state
[05:04.91]And I am no longer
[05:08.47]Afraid of anything save
[05:14.26]The life that here awaits
[05:20.80]I don't belong to anyone
[05:23.75]My heart is heavy as an oil drum
[05:28.83]And I don't want to be alone
[05:31.86]My heart is yellow as an ear of corn
[05:36.60]And I have torn my soul apart from
[05:40.36]Pulling artlessly with fool commands
[05:44.54]Some nights
[05:45.51]I just never go to sleep at all
[05:49.50]And I stand
[05:52.46]Shaking in my doorway like a sentinel
[05:57.42]All alone
[06:00.51]Bracing like the bow upon a ship
[06:04.09]And fully abandoning
[06:08.15]Any thought of anywhere
[06:10.85]But home
[06:12.97]My home
[06:15.83]Sometimes I can almost feel the power
[06:23.02]And I do love you
[06:30.36]Is it only timing
[06:32.33]That has made it such a dark hour
[06:37.68]Only ever chiming out
[06:39.99]Cuckoo cuckoo
[07:14.03]My heart I wear you down I know
[07:24.93]Gotta think straight
[07:26.96]Keep a clean plate
[07:30.38]Keep from wearing down
[07:34.40]If I lose my head
[07:40.85]Just where am I going to lay it
[07:46.23]For it has half ruined me
[07:48.54]To be hanging around
[07:52.37]Here among the Daphne
[07:54.37]Blooming out of the big brown
[07:58.55]I am native to it but I'm overgrown
[08:05.90]I have choked my roots
[08:09.23]On the earth as rich as roe
[08:13.08]Here
[08:15.55]Down in California