Joanna Newsom Sadie Lyrics

Sadie Lyrics

Sadie

White coat

You carry me home

And bury this bone 

And take this pinecone



Bury this bone

To gnaw on it later, gnaw on the telephone

'Till 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 beeathed

And all that we spilt

Or pulled up like weeds

Is piled up in back

And it burns irrevocably



We spoke up in turns

'Till the silence crept over me



Bless you

And I deeply do

No longer resolute

And I call to you



But the water go 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

Is stretched-on the hoop where I stitch-this addage

"Bless her house and her 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