Joanna Newsom - The Things I Say Lyrics

stop making me cry every time

i desire to make amends

I mean the things i say you know, Im not messing about...

this, on a good day, and clam crab cockle cowrie, joanna's lullabys

And This Side of the Blue...

First time I’ve heard this one 😭

If I have the space of half a day,
I'm ashamed of half the things I say.
I'm ashamed to have turned out this way,
and I desire to make amends.

But it don't make no difference, now,
and no-one's listening, anyhow,
and lists of sins and solemn vows
don't make you any friends.

There's an old trick played,
when the light and the wine conspire
to make me think I'm fine.
I'm not, but I have got half a mind
to maybe get there, yet.

When the sky goes pink in Paris, France,
do you think of the girl who used to dance
when you'd frame her moving within your hands,
saying This I won't forget?

What happened to the man you were,
when you loved somebody before her?
Did he die?
Or does that man endure, somewhere far away?

Our lives come easy and our lives come hard.
And we carry them like a pack of cards:
some we don't use, but we don't discard,
but keep for a rainy day.

16 bars my nigga

0:32
my heart
this album has healed me in so many ways, this song and Anecdotes in particular

joe a agree

"im ashamed of half the things i say" really got me

Ho fa expressament de cantar amb aquesta veu tant extranya? Em queda el dubte...

My Aunt died yesterday, and I didn't really know how to process it, so I listened to this song over and over again.

My condolences.

Sorry to hear that mate

Wow. This was beautiful, like painfully beautiful.

like a scythe in the god damned ribs

this is unbelievable - so beautiful

Can we talk about the amazon advert for this album? It's bloody fantastic, y ' all;
I want it burned into my body.

Well, what are you still doing here.....? Did you read it...... ?...

this one really hits the vein

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This song is so beautiful

great track..although sounded to me like 'and I desire to naked mans'...probably just wishful thinking : )

+John Burgess pretty sure it's "I desire to make amends"

wow! bit horny today are we mate!?

Thanks.

my version of divers has snippets of "dj aaron ellis" and david bryne saying "im a government man" and i just spent an hour downloading a different version that ended up being ITAOTS

+TomatoOtters Try this version: http://www.dragcity.com/products/divers

+D. Erik Goodman >buying music

+TomatoOtters It's like $10 for the mp3. Worth it.

+D. Erik Goodman i was joking lad

Enfin, Joanna, enlève ce centuron!...

I don't understand the abrupt ending that's played backwards

Sometimes I think that we overthink her albums(although this song is clearly amazing). But if she has thought of that, and make those decitions when structuring the album, she is a genius indeed.

@Derek Witten @feliponsh All very insightful responses, thank you!

Derek Witten holy shit I never realized that's why she said trans at the end of time as a symptom she's a genius

Derek Witten this is the most complex album I've ever seen if this is really how she meant for it to be taken

The album is best experienced as a whole, it makes sense of the abrupt ending and other ways of playing with time