Bridges And Balloons Lyrics - Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom

We sailed away on a winter's day 

With fate as malleable as clay 

But ships are fallible, I say 

And the nautical, like all things, fades and I 

Can recall our caravel: 

A little wicker beetle shell 

With four fine maste and lateen sails 

Its bearings on Cair Paravel 

Oh my love 

Oh it was a funny little thing 

To be the ones to've seen 

The sight of bridges and balloons 

Makes calm canaries irritable 

They caw and claw all afternoon "Catenaries and dirigibles 

Brace and buoy the living-room 

A loom of metal, warp woof wimble" 

And a thimblesworth of milky moon 

Can touch hearts larger than a thimble 

Oh my love 

Oh it was a funny little thing 

To be the ones to've seen