Waltz of the 101st Lightborne-Joanna Newsom

[ti:Waltz of the 101st Lightborne] [ar:Joanna Newsom] [al:Divers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Waltz of the 101st Lightborne - Joanna Newsom [00:00.42]I believed they had got what they came for; [00:06.54]I believed our peril was done [00:11.68] [00:12.86]On the eve of the last of the Great Wars [00:18.86]After three we had narrowly won [00:22.36] [00:24.41]But the fourth [00:25.48] [00:26.05]It was carelessly done [00:29.15] [00:29.80]I saw his ship in it's whistling ascension [00:35.57]As they launched from the Capitol seat [00:39.06] [00:40.87]Swear I saw our mistake [00:43.73]When the clouds draped like a flag [00:48.03]Across the backs of the fleet [00:50.84] [00:52.53]Of the Hundred-First Lightborne Elite [00:55.99] [00:57.94]As the day is long [00:59.99] [01:00.55]So the well runs dry [01:03.22]And we came to see Time is taller [01:06.13]Than Space is wide [01:08.66]And we bade goodbye [01:10.47] [01:11.18]To the Great Divide: [01:14.17]Found unlimited simulacreage to colonize [01:18.04] [01:19.90]But there was a time we were lashed to the prow [01:26.56]Of a ship you may board but not steer [01:30.81] [01:31.72]Before You and I ceased to mean Now [01:37.02] [01:37.57]And began to mean only Right Here [01:41.18] [01:42.60]to mean Inches and Miles but not Years; [01:47.03] [01:47.90]Before Space has a taste of its limits [01:53.20]And a new sort of coordinate awoke [01:57.07] [01:58.75]Making Time just another poor tenant: [02:04.41] [02:05.04]Bearing weight taking fire trading smokes [02:09.45] [02:10.32]In the war between us and our ghosts [02:13.98] [02:14.96]But I saw the Bering Strait and the Golden Gate [02:21.08]In silent suspension of their golden age [02:26.43]you can barely tell if I guard it well [02:32.08]Where I have been and seen [02:34.88]Pristine unfelled [02:38.04]I had a dream that I walked in the garden [02:44.19] [02:45.04]Of Chabot and those telescope ruins [02:49.37] [02:50.48]It was there that I called to my true love [02:56.05] [02:56.75]Who was pale as millennial moons [03:00.46] [03:01.69]Honey where did you come by that wound [03:05.89] [03:07.32]When I woke he was gone [03:10.04]And the War had begun [03:12.81] [03:13.57]In eternal return and repeat [03:17.10] [03:18.27]Calling Where in the hell are the rest of your fellow [03:24.18]One Hundred-One Lightborne Elite [03:28.00] [03:28.59]Stormed in the New Highland Light Infantry [03:33.82] [03:35.10]Make it stop my love [03:37.58]We were wrong to try [03:40.54]Never saw what we could unravel [03:43.36]In traveling light [03:45.59]or how the trip debrides [03:48.41]Like a stack of slides [03:51.38]All we saw was that Time is taller than Space is wide [03:56.71] [03:57.30]That's why we are bound to a round desert island [04:03.49] [04:04.33]'neath the sky where our sailors have gone [04:08.12] [04:09.20]Have they drowned in those windy highlands [04:16.83]Highlands away my John [04:21.93] [05:06.33]Highlands away my John