You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
Joanna Newsom
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And what do you remember most? The line of the sea, seceding the coast? Fine capillaries, glowing with cars? The comfort you drew from the light of the stars? And how long did you climb that night With the ice in your lungs, on the rungs of the light? Beyond recall, you severed all strings To everyone, and everything Oh, silent, constant driver of mine Wordlessly calling from the end of the line Where, even though each hour I ever loved Must queue and dive Still, you will not take my heart, alive In martial wind, and in clarion rain We minced into battle, wincing in pain Not meant for walking, backs bound in twine Not angel or devil But level, in time And I rose, to take my shape at last From the dreams that had dogged me, through every past When, to my soul, the body would say You may do what you like As long as you stay Now the towns and forests, highways and plains Fall back in circles like an emptying drain And I won't come round this way again Where the lonely wind abides And you will not take my heart, alive You will not take my heart
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