Cassiopeia Lyrics - Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom

Feel the matress tense beneath me 

Like the muscle of nonsleepy 

Feathers flexing will defeat me 

And it vexes me completely 

And the hexes heat covertly 

Like a slow low-flying turkey 

Like a Texan drying jerky 

But his meaty mitts can't hurt me 

With my steely will compounded 

In a mighty mound that's hounded 

By the snap your steel string sounded 

Just before your snores unwound it 

And in store are dreams so daring 

That the night can't stop from staring 

I'll swim sweetly as a herring 

Through the ether, not despairing 

Go to sleep, you stunning sky 

Gently creep cunning by 

A quiet hum is amplified 

By your thumb 

That you suck dry 

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh 

Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia 

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh 

Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia 

Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia 

Oh oh, Cassiopeia