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Bridges And Balloons

Bridges And Balloons lyrics by 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,...

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Bridges And Balloons

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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 masts 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

And they caw and claw all afternoon

Catenaries and dirigibles

Brace and buoy the livingroom

A loom of metal, warp - woof - wimble

And a thimble's worth 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

Oh my love

Oh it was a funny little thing

It was a funny, funny little thing

To be the ones to've seen

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