Biography:
Joanna Newsom (born Joanna Caroline Newsom on 18 January 1982 in California) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, and actress. Newsom was classically trained on the harp in her youth, and began her musical career as a keyboardist in 2002 in the San Francisco-based indie band The Pleased.
Newsom started taking piano lessons at a very early age and played for a couple of years, but switched to the harp at seven. Her approach to the harp
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- '81
- Bridges And Balloons
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowry
- Emily
- On A Good Day
- Peach, Plum, Pear
- 81
- A Pin Light Bent
- Anecdotes
- Autumn
- Baby Birch
- Book Of Right
- Ca The Yowes To The Nowes
- Cassiopeia
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
- Cosmia
- Divers
- Does Not Suffice
- Easy
- En Gallop
- Esme
- Go Long
- Good Intentions Paving Company
- Goose Eggs
- Have One On Me
- In California
- Inflamatory Writ
- Inflammatory Writ
- Jackrabbits
- Kingfisher
- Leaving The City
- Look And Despair
- Make Hay
- Monkey Bear
- No Provenance
- Occident
- Only Skin
- Peach Plum Pear
- Ribbon Bows
- Sadie
- Sapokanikan
- Sawdust And Diamonds
- Soft As Chalk
- Sprout And The Bean
- Swansea
- The Divers Wife
- The Fray
- The Northstar Grassman And The Ravens
- The Things I Say
- This Side Of The Blue
- Time As A Symptom
- Waltz Of The 101St Lightborne
- What We Have Known
- You And Me Bess
- You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
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[Verse 1]
F Eb Gm
Time passed hard
F Eb
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
F Eb
But she forgot
Gm F Eb
The moment she saw you
Gm F Eb
So it would seem to be true:
Gm F Eb
When cruel birth debases, we forget
Gm F
When cruel death debases
Eb Gm F
We believe it erases all the rest
Eb
That precedes
[Verse 2]
Gm F Eb
But stand brave, life-liver
Gm F
Bleeding out your days
Eb Gm F
In the river of time
Eb
Stand brave:
Gm F Eb
Time moves both ways
[Chorus]
Gm F Eb
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life;
Gm F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
[Bridge]
F Eb
The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Gm
Not axe nor hammer
F
Tumor, tremor
Eb Gm F Eb
Can take it away, and it remains
Gm F Eb
It remains
Gm F Eb Gm F Eb
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Gm F Eb
Love is not a symptom of time
Gm F Eb
Time is just a symptom of love
[Chorus]
Gm F Eb
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life;
Gm F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life)
[Coda]
Eb Gm
Hardly seen, hardly felt
F
Deep down where your fight is waiting
Eb
Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F
Where I know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
Eb
Bow like the field when the wind combs through it:
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F
And every little gust that chances through
Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you
Gm F Eb
With joy-of-life
Gm F
And in our perfect secret-keeping:
Eb
One ear of corn
In silent, reaping
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F Eb
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song:
Gm F Eb
A way a lone a last a loved a long
Gm F Eb
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
Gm F Eb
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
Gm F Eb
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:
Gm F Eb
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
Gm F Eb
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-
F Eb Gm
Time passed hard
F Eb
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
F Eb
But she forgot
Gm F Eb
The moment she saw you
Gm F Eb
So it would seem to be true:
Gm F Eb
When cruel birth debases, we forget
Gm F
When cruel death debases
Eb Gm F
We believe it erases all the rest
Eb
That precedes
[Verse 2]
Gm F Eb
But stand brave, life-liver
Gm F
Bleeding out your days
Eb Gm F
In the river of time
Eb
Stand brave:
Gm F Eb
Time moves both ways
[Chorus]
Gm F Eb
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life;
Gm F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
[Bridge]
F Eb
The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Gm
Not axe nor hammer
F
Tumor, tremor
Eb Gm F Eb
Can take it away, and it remains
Gm F Eb
It remains
Gm F Eb Gm F Eb
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Gm F Eb
Love is not a symptom of time
Gm F Eb
Time is just a symptom of love
[Chorus]
Gm F Eb
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life;
Gm F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life)
[Coda]
Eb Gm
Hardly seen, hardly felt
F
Deep down where your fight is waiting
Eb
Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F
Where I know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
Eb
Bow like the field when the wind combs through it:
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F
And every little gust that chances through
Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you
Gm F Eb
With joy-of-life
Gm F
And in our perfect secret-keeping:
Eb
One ear of corn
In silent, reaping
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm F Eb
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song:
Gm F Eb
A way a lone a last a loved a long
Gm F Eb
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
Gm F Eb
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
Gm F Eb
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:
Gm F Eb
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
Gm F Eb
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-
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