Sadie - Joanna Newsom

Sadie, white coat

You carry me home

And bury this bone

And take this pine cone

Bury this bone

To gnaw on it later, gnawing on the telephone

Until then, we pray and suspend

The notion that these lives do never end

And all day long we talk about mercy

Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty

Down in the ditch where I nearly served you

Up in the clouds where he almost heard you

And all that we built and all that we breathed

And all that we spilt or pulled up like weeds

Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably

And we spoke up in turns till the silence crept over me

And bless you and I deeply do

No longer resolute, oh and I call to you

But the water got so cold

And you do lose what you don’t hold

This is an old song, these are old blues

And this is not my tune

But it’s mine to use

And the seabirds where the fear once grew

Will flock with a fury and they will bury what’d come for you

And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender

You and I and a love so tender

Stretched on a hoop where I stitch this adage

Bless our house and its heart so savage

And all that I want and all that I need

And all that I’ve got is scattered like seed

And all that I knew is moving away from me

And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed

And the mealy worms in the brine will burn

In a salty pyre among the fauns and ferns

And the love we hold and the love we spurn

Will never grow cold, only taciturn

And I’ll tell you tomorrow

Oh Sadie, go on home now

And bless those who’ve sickened below

And bless us who have chosen so

And all that I’ve got and all that I need

I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet

And I have not forgot but a silence crept over me

So dig up your bone, exhume your pinecone, Sadie