In California - Joanna Newsom.mp3

[00:17.92]My heart became a drunken runt
[00:25.09]On the day I sunk in this shunt
[00:32.58]To tap me clean
[00:35.77]Of all the wonder
[00:39.56]And the sorrow I have seen
[00:43.68]Since I left my home:
[00:50.34]My home, on the old Milk Lake
[00:56.97]Where the darkness does fall so fast
[01:02.15]It feels like some kind of mistake
[01:07.85](just like they told you it would;
[01:16.17]Just like the Tulgeywood)
[01:23.33]When I came into my land
[01:29.34]I did not understand:
[01:37.42]Neither dry rot, nor the burn pile
[01:41.14]Nor the bark-beetle, nor the dry well
[01:46.31]Nor the black bear
[01:52.76]But there is another
[01:56.44]Who is a little older
[02:00.59]When I broke my bone
[02:03.20]He carried me up from the riverside
[02:08.72]To spend my life
[02:10.89]In spitting-distance
[02:12.80]Of the love that I have known
[02:17.34]I must stay here, in an endless eventide
[02:24.97]And if you come and see me
[02:28.74]You will upset the order
[02:33.07]You cannot come and see me
[02:36.48]For I set myself apart
[02:41.30]But when you come and see me
[02:45.04]In California
[02:49.83]You cross the border of my heart
[02:57.84]Well, I have sown untidy furrows
[03:01.07]Across my soul
[03:02.53]But I am still a coward
[03:05.54]Content to see my garden grow
[03:08.62]So sweet & full
[03:10.48]Of someone else's flowers
[03:14.11]But sometimes
[03:14.81]I can almost feel the power
[03:21.39]Sometimes I am so in love with you
[03:29.40](Like a little clock
[03:31.75]That trembles on the edge of the hour
[03:37.70]Only ever calling out "Cuckoo, cuckoo")
[03:45.23]When I called you
[03:49.52]You, little one
[03:53.11]In a bad way
[03:57.06]Did you love me?
[03:59.12]Do you spite me?
[04:02.09]Time will tell if I can be well
[04:12.77]And rise to meet you rightly
[04:18.07]While, moving across my land
[04:26.12]Brandishing themselves
[04:29.15]Like a burning branch
[04:33.97]Advance the tallow-colored
[04:37.58]Walleyed deer
[04:42.45]Quiet as gondoliers
[04:48.74]While I wait all night, for you
[04:52.51]In California
[04:56.42]Watching the fox pick off my goldfish
[05:01.22]From their sorry, golden state--
[05:04.59]And I am no longer
[05:08.47]Afraid of anything, save
[05:14.16]The life that, here, awaits
[05:20.56]I don't belong to anyone
[05:23.48]My heart is heavy as an oil drum
[05:28.47]And I don't want to be alone
[05:31.55]My heart is yellow as an ear of corn
[05:36.58]And I have torn my soul apart, from
[05:40.16]Pulling artlessly with fool commands
[05:44.21]Some nights
[05:45.53]I just never go to sleep at all
[05:49.05]And I stand
[05:52.30]Shaking in my doorway like a sentinel
[05:56.35]All alone
[06:00.44]Bracing like the bow upon a ship
[06:04.07]And fully abandoning
[06:07.95]Any thought of anywhere
[06:10.77]But home
[06:12.87]My home
[06:15.81]Sometimes I can almost feel the power
[06:22.97]And I do love you
[06:30.38]Is it only timing
[06:32.21]That has made it such a dark hour
[06:37.39]Only ever chiming out
[06:39.91]"Cuckoo, cuckoo"?
[06:46.04]Cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
[07:13.99]My heart, I wear you down, I know
[07:24.65]Gotta think straight
[07:26.87]Keep a clean plate;
[07:30.10]Keep from wearing down
[07:34.04]If I lose my head
[07:40.79]Just where am I going to lay it?
[07:45.70](For it has half-ruined me
[07:48.67]To be hanging around
[07:51.99]Here, among the daphne
[07:54.47]Blooming out of the big brown;
[07:57.79]I am native to it, but I'm overgrown
[08:05.94]I have choked my roots
[08:09.22]On the earth, as rich as roe
[08:13.15]Here Down in California.)