This Side Of The Blue Lyrics - Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom

Svetlana sucks lemons across from me 

And I am progressing abominably 

And I do not know my own way to the sea 

But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me 

And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow 

And I find myself toeing the embarcadero 

And I find myself knowing the things that I knew 

Which is all that you can know on this side of the blue 

And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots 

And they march at you, two-by-two, re-loo re-loo 

When she looks at you, you know she's nowhere near through 

It's the kindest heart beating this side of the blue 

And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers 

And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words 

When across the sky sheet the impossible birds 

In a steady, illiterate movement homewards 

And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon 

See them rattle and boom, see them shake, see them loom 

See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus 

See him navigate deftly this side of the blue 

And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue 

When the shape of their goneness will flare up anew 

And we do what we have to do, re-loo re-loo 

Which is all you can do on this side of the blue 

Oh it's all that you can do on this side of the blue