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Joanna Newsom over Time. The ever present joy, love and endlessness!

by Joanna Newsom

I face it with my flayed skull in the glacial morning wind It burns like salt, it’s not your fault that I ain’t got no skin.

I ran into the dawn until my voice was gone. I call, ‘I love you through it all.’

They said I couldn’t hold you when I tried to take your hand. Alarm bells rang; the nurse was saying things I can’t understand.

Too warm, too warm. I drew my arm away against the glass. ‘Is he okay?‘ my flayed skull asked. 

I prayed the fear would pass. They say you need me here more than I need that. But I need it. 

My eyes scan every place, and I stand guard all night in vigil, in warning and in waste. Unheeded.

Wild, too cold and blue. But look at those curls. How do you do?

Though I cannot imagine, recall it or conceive. I’m not going far away, I know what I believe. I know, I know, I know because they tell me that it’s true the spell will break me and wake me anew.

So I sit and rock and drop through space and kiss your face and sing. The smoke is thick, my skin is sick, the bombs are whistling.

The death, the doom, the leaden, looming dread is always near. But I love you, and you are here.

I feared that it had won. I feared that you would never find me, my darling son. But you found me.

And though it took awhile, now I look and find your blinding starlight smile surrounds me.

We bleed through, clear and true. Here with you now.

I wish that I could show you what I know about this pain. I’ll tell ya now, I don’t know how, but I’ll be back again. 

To quote her husband:

"...she’s brilliant in a way that I feel like almost no one else is; it’s such a specific kept space that only she occupies"

Besties!!!

The first blue/purple/turquoise one is a Divers tour Michael Van Der Ham dress and the second yellow is the Rodarte dress she wore at her latest Strings/Keys tour. Also, fun fact, she also wore her 'best harp playing shoes - Gucch' ' haha