What a delightful surprise at 2:53 am 😍 Btw, is there anywhere I can get ahold of your transcription of easy? I really wanna learn it since i recently started piano lessons. P.S. thank you for being certifiably the best and most dedicated Joanna fan. Icon
(from genius) Take her down, Tom, the time has come At last, I can hear her song Water contracts, our hold holds fast Like the last of the iron lungs My child and me through the miles and leagues Fall as hard and sessile as hail Echoing laughter fore and aft O’er the raft of the violet snail Now doesn't that sight put the fear of God in you Green light sweeps like a nightstick swinging Sonar softly pinging-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing, I am appeased by what I have seen Now turn around, Ma, you already saw What you may and you'll look no further Haunting the post where the Holy Ghost poses Down through the rayless water Holding a child, oh, ain't it nice Ain't it wild and sweet to the verge of anguish? Ain't it absurd, I do not have words It is not for a lack of language Tethered to our floating home We scout for your crown and its Paley graph Your periscope a parapet Towering-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing Our God and King, thy Father watches the sheep And I swear on my soul, if it is all folderol Let us ring 'round the roses, honey Garbling all our sounds of war Into hey nonny, nonny, nonny Last and the least, when the fire has ceased In a failsafe, essential breakaway Shot is released, we rise automatically Folderol, not-to-die, to-die-today Music sets us spinning and spinning Inscribe the memory of a honey bee With the silence of a ballerina We took a little walk across the lawn It was 2 o'clock, with my soft shoes on I met you at the dawn, "May I cross the calm?" I called, "May I tag along?" Hear you bawl a little sad song, it's a sad song Keep singing it honey, it ain't long Sing and I'll keep you safe and warm until the dawn DSRV-2 Avalon Wherever you are, wherever you've gone Leaning your cheek into the apple yellow dawn, Highway 1 We've been itching to meet you Recommission and reach you If you listen I'll teach you a sad song Sing your machinery to sleep and shut the door Even Janthina once was as you are Sworn anathema to the guns, and the megatons, and all Only Janthina can defeat the men o' war If you could only hear my joy, just to know her Tie her little shoe, take her little hand Say hello to her, hello And there really ain't a lot I can show her Up on the deck are we safe from harm? Are we ready to surface? In every respect, sound the alarm It goes so fast, it will feel slow We will arrive before you know We are free to go if we don't get stuck We'll be there by morning with a little luck Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na (x4) Lay her down, Tom, we are overrun But there is time for another story Smoke at the door is siphonophore Coiling blue as a morning glory It is the hour, see the little hand See the lambs we have kept and guarded Tower of steel cartwheel in the sand With the force of the waters parted It is the hour, we are far from home We, the lambs who will not be slaughtered I am not afraid, I am not alone I'm not alone, I have brought my daughter I'm not alone
She is very knowledgeable of history.. I’ve got some ideas for something akin to her album Y’s.. I’m a divergent Savant.. while not able to perform these things, I can arrange them.. In light of today’s darkness, when you’re ready, Jo..
This song is a masterpiece! My biggest worry is that something that I’ve grown to love and know in this live recording will be lost or missing when the recorded version comes out.
(Unconfirmed) lyrics: With our heads full of gray by the end of the day Won't you pour me a neighbourly tonic? Lower the shades on the terms of the trade And the dear old (??) harming My mind is easy, my mind is easy, Me and my queasy stomach Now here come my fears assailing me merrily caroling, stereophonic And it's breaking my heart to see how far they've got to me! That's the cornerstone of ordinary home economics We got doctors and plumbers and camps for the summer To cancel, reschedule, and promise I answer the phone and make plans and postpone And atone for all of my wrongness And my mind is easy, my mind is easy Though bees besieze in my bonnet The worry and guilt and my heels carry me up the hill Til I keel at the summit And this hunger and scarcity, it just doesn't seem fair to me With the rest of the night invested in these home economics But I would not be far from you, wish not to part from you and I love you I want just to show it It's worth any verse that I may never write Though it hurts tonight to know it But my mind is easy, my mind is easy You're everything that I wanted Your laugh and the things you say and your soft little weight in my lap like a rabbit And I'd do anything for you But just what do you think I do? Cue the gramophone In your mind and my home economics If you reckon it's spiteful to be a housewife in the guise of your glowing electronics You should know there's no version of hours incurred Nor life that we were promised But my mind is easy, my mind is easy I'm only one in a long list Who birth and who nurse and who serve and return to the earth with no purchase upon it And I cannot tell you no lies, children You cannot sell or buy What cannot be owned, that's the property of home economics And I can't pay my loans without trading in these home economics!
I saw her perform this song last night and sobbed. It’s so beautiful, I can’t believe we’re lucky enough to be alive when she’s alive and making music.
I was here! It was so perfect. I haven’t really been able to get into Joanna’s music but this performance really struck a chord with me. Really breathing in and focusing on the music changed me.
