Sawdust & Diamonds
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โฑ๏ธ 9:55 duration
๐ ID: 150805
๐ Lyrics
From the top of the flight
Of the wide white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?
There's a bell in my ears
There's a wide white roar
Drop a bell down the stairs
Hear it fall forever more
Hear it fall forever more
Drop a bell off of the dock
Blot it out in the sea
Drowning mute as a rock
And sounding mutiny
There's a light in the wings
Hits this system of strings
From the side while they swing;
See the wires, the wires, the wires
And the articulation
In our elbows and knees
Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
As the audience admires
And the little white dove
Made with love, made with love
Made with glue and a glove and some pliers
Swings a low sickle arc
From its perch in the dark
Settle down
Settle down
Settle down my desire
And the moment I slept
I was swept up in a terrible tremor
Though no longer bereft, how I shook
And I couldn't remember
And then the furthermost shake
Drove a murdering stake in
And cleft me right down through my center
And I shouldn't say so
But I know that it was then or never
Push me back into a tree
Bind my buttons with salt
Fill my long ears with bees
Braying 'please, please, please,
Oh you ought not!
No you ought not!'
And then the system of strings
Tugs on the tip of my wings
Cut from cardboard and old magazines
Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow
And in the place where I stood
There is a circle of wood
A cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow
And it is terribly good
To carry water and chop wood
Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed
As I crash through the rafters
And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
And the holiest belfry burns sky high
And then a slow lip of fire
Moves across the prairie with precision
While somewhere with your pliers and glue
You make your first incision
And in a moment of almost unbearable vision
Doubled over with the hunger of lions
'Hold me close', cooed the dove
Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
I wanted to say 'why the long face?'
Sparrow perch and play songs of long face
Burro buck and bray songs of long face
Sings 'I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
Just to lift your long face
And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave
Your precious long face
And though our bones they may break and our souls separate
Why the long face?
And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
Why the long face?'
In the trough of the waves
Which are pawing like dogs
Pitch we, pale-faced and grave
As I write in my log
Then I hear a noise from the hull
Seven days out to sea
And it is the damnable bell
And it tolls, well I believe, that it tolls
It tolls for me!
And it tolls for me!
And though my wrists and my waist
Seem so easy to break
Still my dear I'd have walked you to the edge of the water
And they will recognize
All the lines of your face
In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter
And darling we will be fine
But what was yours and mine
Appears to me a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
But if it's all just the same
Then will you say my name
Say my name in the morning so that I know when the wave breaks
I wasn't born of a whistle
Or milked from a thistle at twilight
No, I was all horns and thorns
Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
And grow evermore lighter and lighter
You would have seen me through
But I could not undo that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire
From the top of the flight
Of the wide white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?
Of the wide white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?
There's a bell in my ears
There's a wide white roar
Drop a bell down the stairs
Hear it fall forever more
Hear it fall forever more
Drop a bell off of the dock
Blot it out in the sea
Drowning mute as a rock
And sounding mutiny
There's a light in the wings
Hits this system of strings
From the side while they swing;
See the wires, the wires, the wires
And the articulation
In our elbows and knees
Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
As the audience admires
And the little white dove
Made with love, made with love
Made with glue and a glove and some pliers
Swings a low sickle arc
From its perch in the dark
Settle down
Settle down
Settle down my desire
And the moment I slept
I was swept up in a terrible tremor
Though no longer bereft, how I shook
And I couldn't remember
And then the furthermost shake
Drove a murdering stake in
And cleft me right down through my center
And I shouldn't say so
But I know that it was then or never
Push me back into a tree
Bind my buttons with salt
Fill my long ears with bees
Braying 'please, please, please,
Oh you ought not!
No you ought not!'
And then the system of strings
Tugs on the tip of my wings
Cut from cardboard and old magazines
Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow
And in the place where I stood
There is a circle of wood
A cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow
And it is terribly good
To carry water and chop wood
Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed
As I crash through the rafters
And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
And the holiest belfry burns sky high
And then a slow lip of fire
Moves across the prairie with precision
While somewhere with your pliers and glue
You make your first incision
And in a moment of almost unbearable vision
Doubled over with the hunger of lions
'Hold me close', cooed the dove
Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
I wanted to say 'why the long face?'
Sparrow perch and play songs of long face
Burro buck and bray songs of long face
Sings 'I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
Just to lift your long face
And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave
Your precious long face
And though our bones they may break and our souls separate
Why the long face?
And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
Why the long face?'
In the trough of the waves
Which are pawing like dogs
Pitch we, pale-faced and grave
As I write in my log
Then I hear a noise from the hull
Seven days out to sea
And it is the damnable bell
And it tolls, well I believe, that it tolls
It tolls for me!
And it tolls for me!
And though my wrists and my waist
Seem so easy to break
Still my dear I'd have walked you to the edge of the water
And they will recognize
All the lines of your face
In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter
And darling we will be fine
But what was yours and mine
Appears to me a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
But if it's all just the same
Then will you say my name
Say my name in the morning so that I know when the wave breaks
I wasn't born of a whistle
Or milked from a thistle at twilight
No, I was all horns and thorns
Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
And grow evermore lighter and lighter
You would have seen me through
But I could not undo that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire
From the top of the flight
Of the wide white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:02.97] From the top of the flight
[00:06.65] Of the wide white stairs
[00:12.09] Through the rest of my life
[00:16.83] Do you wait for me there?
[00:22.57] There's a bell in my ears
[00:28.06] There's a wide white roar
[00:32.45] Drop a bell down the stairs
[00:37.94] Hear it fall forever more
[00:42.45] Hear it fall forever more
[00:48.04] Drop a bell off of the dock
[01:05.60] Blot it out in the sea
[01:16.86] Drowning mute as a rock
[01:28.07] And sounding mutiny
[01:39.11] There's a light in the wings
[01:44.18] Hits this system of strings
[01:45.95] From the side while they swing;
[01:48.01] See the wires, the wires, the wires
[01:51.93] And the articulation
[01:55.61] In our elbows and knees
[01:57.07] Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
[02:00.49] As the audience admires
[02:03.19] And the little white dove
[02:06.69] Made with love, made with love
[02:09.62] Made with glue and a glove and some pliers
[02:14.43] Swings a low sickle arc
[02:18.68] From its perch in the dark
[02:21.65] Settle down
[02:22.44] Settle down
[02:24.10] Settle down my desire
[02:26.70] And the moment I slept
[02:28.92] I was swept up in a terrible tremor
[02:31.58] Though no longer bereft, how I shook
[02:34.15] And I couldn't remember
[02:36.72] And then the furthermost shake
[02:40.11] Drove a murdering stake in
[02:41.42] And cleft me right down through my center
[02:44.59] And I shouldn't say so
[02:46.77] But I know that it was then or never
[02:50.05] Push me back into a tree
[03:02.04] Bind my buttons with salt
[03:12.21] Fill my long ears with bees
[03:24.25] Braying 'please, please, please,
[03:31.00] Oh you ought not!
[03:34.08] No you ought not!'
[03:36.76] And then the system of strings
[03:40.58] Tugs on the tip of my wings
[03:42.54] Cut from cardboard and old magazines
[03:45.48] Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow
[03:49.22] And in the place where I stood
[03:52.35] There is a circle of wood
[03:54.36] A cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow
[04:00.41] And it is terribly good
[04:03.45] To carry water and chop wood
[04:05.15] Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed
[04:10.73] As I crash through the rafters
[04:14.88] And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
[04:17.64] And the holiest belfry burns sky high
[04:21.79] And then a slow lip of fire
[04:24.02] Moves across the prairie with precision
[04:26.54] While somewhere with your pliers and glue
[04:30.48] You make your first incision
[04:33.45] And in a moment of almost unbearable vision
[04:36.43] Doubled over with the hunger of lions
[04:38.83] 'Hold me close', cooed the dove
[04:41.28] Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
[04:45.25] I wanted to say 'why the long face?'
[05:08.46] Sparrow perch and play songs of long face
[05:17.67] Burro buck and bray songs of long face
[05:27.62] Sings 'I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
[05:34.81] Just to lift your long face
[05:38.31] And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave
[05:45.44] Your precious long face
[05:48.76] And though our bones they may break and our souls separate
[05:55.62] Why the long face?
[06:00.82] And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
[06:06.53] Why the long face?'
[06:09.81] In the trough of the waves
[06:19.27] Which are pawing like dogs
[06:30.92] Pitch we, pale-faced and grave
[06:40.23] As I write in my log
[06:50.23] Then I hear a noise from the hull
[07:01.08] Seven days out to sea
[07:10.95] And it is the damnable bell
[07:21.39] And it tolls, well I believe, that it tolls
[07:29.94] It tolls for me!
[07:32.99] And it tolls for me!
[07:35.37] And though my wrists and my waist
[07:38.88] Seem so easy to break
[07:41.28] Still my dear I'd have walked you to the edge of the water
[07:47.30] And they will recognize
[07:50.33] All the lines of your face
[07:52.87] In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter
[07:58.86] And darling we will be fine
[08:01.16] But what was yours and mine
[08:03.61] Appears to me a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
[08:09.34] But if it's all just the same
[08:12.62] Then will you say my name
[08:14.07] Say my name in the morning so that I know when the wave breaks
[08:19.01] I wasn't born of a whistle
[08:21.45] Or milked from a thistle at twilight
[08:23.98] No, I was all horns and thorns
[08:27.33] Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
[08:30.89] So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
[08:33.25] And grow evermore lighter and lighter
[08:36.27] You would have seen me through
[08:38.21] But I could not undo that desire
[08:41.49] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
[08:45.87] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
[08:51.49] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire
[09:14.92] From the top of the flight
[09:18.50] Of the wide white stairs
[09:22.72] Through the rest of my life
[09:27.49] Do you wait for me there?
[09:32.56]
[00:06.65] Of the wide white stairs
[00:12.09] Through the rest of my life
[00:16.83] Do you wait for me there?
[00:22.57] There's a bell in my ears
[00:28.06] There's a wide white roar
[00:32.45] Drop a bell down the stairs
[00:37.94] Hear it fall forever more
[00:42.45] Hear it fall forever more
[00:48.04] Drop a bell off of the dock
[01:05.60] Blot it out in the sea
[01:16.86] Drowning mute as a rock
[01:28.07] And sounding mutiny
[01:39.11] There's a light in the wings
[01:44.18] Hits this system of strings
[01:45.95] From the side while they swing;
[01:48.01] See the wires, the wires, the wires
[01:51.93] And the articulation
[01:55.61] In our elbows and knees
[01:57.07] Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
[02:00.49] As the audience admires
[02:03.19] And the little white dove
[02:06.69] Made with love, made with love
[02:09.62] Made with glue and a glove and some pliers
[02:14.43] Swings a low sickle arc
[02:18.68] From its perch in the dark
[02:21.65] Settle down
[02:22.44] Settle down
[02:24.10] Settle down my desire
[02:26.70] And the moment I slept
[02:28.92] I was swept up in a terrible tremor
[02:31.58] Though no longer bereft, how I shook
[02:34.15] And I couldn't remember
[02:36.72] And then the furthermost shake
[02:40.11] Drove a murdering stake in
[02:41.42] And cleft me right down through my center
[02:44.59] And I shouldn't say so
[02:46.77] But I know that it was then or never
[02:50.05] Push me back into a tree
[03:02.04] Bind my buttons with salt
[03:12.21] Fill my long ears with bees
[03:24.25] Braying 'please, please, please,
[03:31.00] Oh you ought not!
[03:34.08] No you ought not!'
[03:36.76] And then the system of strings
[03:40.58] Tugs on the tip of my wings
[03:42.54] Cut from cardboard and old magazines
[03:45.48] Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow
[03:49.22] And in the place where I stood
[03:52.35] There is a circle of wood
[03:54.36] A cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow
[04:00.41] And it is terribly good
[04:03.45] To carry water and chop wood
[04:05.15] Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed
[04:10.73] As I crash through the rafters
[04:14.88] And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
[04:17.64] And the holiest belfry burns sky high
[04:21.79] And then a slow lip of fire
[04:24.02] Moves across the prairie with precision
[04:26.54] While somewhere with your pliers and glue
[04:30.48] You make your first incision
[04:33.45] And in a moment of almost unbearable vision
[04:36.43] Doubled over with the hunger of lions
[04:38.83] 'Hold me close', cooed the dove
[04:41.28] Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
[04:45.25] I wanted to say 'why the long face?'
[05:08.46] Sparrow perch and play songs of long face
[05:17.67] Burro buck and bray songs of long face
[05:27.62] Sings 'I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
[05:34.81] Just to lift your long face
[05:38.31] And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave
[05:45.44] Your precious long face
[05:48.76] And though our bones they may break and our souls separate
[05:55.62] Why the long face?
[06:00.82] And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
[06:06.53] Why the long face?'
[06:09.81] In the trough of the waves
[06:19.27] Which are pawing like dogs
[06:30.92] Pitch we, pale-faced and grave
[06:40.23] As I write in my log
[06:50.23] Then I hear a noise from the hull
[07:01.08] Seven days out to sea
[07:10.95] And it is the damnable bell
[07:21.39] And it tolls, well I believe, that it tolls
[07:29.94] It tolls for me!
[07:32.99] And it tolls for me!
[07:35.37] And though my wrists and my waist
[07:38.88] Seem so easy to break
[07:41.28] Still my dear I'd have walked you to the edge of the water
[07:47.30] And they will recognize
[07:50.33] All the lines of your face
[07:52.87] In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter
[07:58.86] And darling we will be fine
[08:01.16] But what was yours and mine
[08:03.61] Appears to me a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
[08:09.34] But if it's all just the same
[08:12.62] Then will you say my name
[08:14.07] Say my name in the morning so that I know when the wave breaks
[08:19.01] I wasn't born of a whistle
[08:21.45] Or milked from a thistle at twilight
[08:23.98] No, I was all horns and thorns
[08:27.33] Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
[08:30.89] So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
[08:33.25] And grow evermore lighter and lighter
[08:36.27] You would have seen me through
[08:38.21] But I could not undo that desire
[08:41.49] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
[08:45.87] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
[08:51.49] Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire
[09:14.92] From the top of the flight
[09:18.50] Of the wide white stairs
[09:22.72] Through the rest of my life
[09:27.49] Do you wait for me there?
[09:32.56]