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Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia lyrics by Joanna Newsom. Feel the mattress tense beneath me Like the muscle of non-sleepy Feathers flexing will defeat me And it vexes me...

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Cassiopeia

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Feel the mattress tense beneath me

Like the muscle of non-sleepy

Feathers flexing will defeat me

And it vexes me complet-e-ly

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

And i'll swim sweetly as a herring

Through the ether not despairing

Go to sleep

You stunning sky

Gently creep

Cunning by

Quiet hum

Is amplified

By your thumb

That you suck dry

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh

Oh, you hold your breath and clasp at cassiopeia

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh

Oh, and you hold your breath and clasp at cassiopeia

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