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I can feel a difference
Today, a difference
All of us, in our tents
Fearing god like a mistressWe lay on the rocks, in the sun
Watching you and your mama row in
I sat up and blinked when you appeared
So pale you were nearly clearLater, I stumbled to my bed
All alone in the branches
I laid in the dark
Thinking about all of my friends and their changesAnd I do not know if you know
Just what you have done
You are the sweetest one
I have ever laid my eyes uponIt's a beautiful town
With the rain coming down
Blackberry, rosemary
Jimmy-crack-cornYou've got the run of the place
Now that you're running around
And may kindness

Kindness, kindness aboundIn this hour of our lives
Hour of effortless plenty
How do we know which parts of our hearts
Want what with such base generosityTaking so many photographs, so amazed
We've never seen a baby so newly born
And, when the bulbs do flash as bright as morning
The crowd keeps on gathering like an electric stormThe phantom of love
Moves among us at will
Each phantom-limb lost
Has got an angel
So confused
Like the wagging bobbed-tail of a bulldog
Kindness, kindness prevails.Kindness prevails
Ties and rails
Ties and rails fall into line bearing kindness
Where will you go, if not here
What will you say when you write to usAnd this is a world of terrible hardship, everywhere
And I search for words to set you at ease
But there, in the looking-glass, a kite is soaring
Stilling my warring heart and my trembling kneesClean as a breeze
Bright as the day
All of the people gather to say
"Sweet Esme!
Sweet Esme!
Oh, oh, oh!"I believe love will always surround you
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true
But if you are scared, if you are blue
I have prepared this small song for you"Sweet Esme!
Sweet Esme!
Oh, oh, oh!""Sweet Esme!
Sweet Esme!
Oh, oh, oh!""Sweet Esme!
Esme!"Sweet Esme!
Sweet Esme!
Oh, oh, oh!"

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Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) started taking piano lessons at a very early age and played for a couple of years, but switched to the harp at seven. Her approach to the harp, from the percussive aspects of her playing to her chord changes, was also influenced by West African and Venezuelan harp music, which she began studying at a folk music camp she attended in her early teens. At the same time, she also listened to more vocal-based folk, punk, and jazz like Karen Dalton, Texas Gladden, Patti Smith, and Billie Holiday.

Read more about Joanna Newsom on Last.fm.


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