Time, As A Symptom Lyrics - Divers - Joanna Newsom

Time passed hard 

And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do 

But she forgot 

The moment she saw you 

So it would seem to be true: 

When cruel birth debases, we forget 

When cruel death debases 

We believe it erases all the rest 

That precedes 

But stand brave, life-liver 

Bleeding out your days 

In the river of time 

Stand brave: 

Time moves both ways 

In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 

Joy of life; 

The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 

Joy of life 

The moment of your greatest joy sustains: 

Not axe nor hammer 

Tumor, tremor 

Can take it away, and it remains 

It remains 

And it pains me to say, I was wrong 

Love is not a symptom of time 

Time is just a symptom of love 

(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 

Joy of life; 

The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 

Joy of life) 

Hardly seen, hardly felt- 

Deep down where your fight is waiting 

Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading: 

Joy of life 

Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it; 

Bow like the field when the combs through it: 

Joy of life 

And every little gust that chances through 

Will dance in the dust of me and you 

With joy-of-life 

And in our perfect secret-keeping: 

One ear of corn 

In silent, reaping 

Joy of life 

Joy! Again, around-a pause, a sound-a song: 

A way a lone a last a loved a long 

A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend 

(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.) 

A shore, a tide, unmoored-a sight, abroad: 

A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god) 

No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end 

White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 

White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 

White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 

White star, white ship-Nightjar, transmit: trans-