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Joanna Newsom - Swansea Lyrics

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  • If you want to come on down,
  • down with your bones so white,
  • And watch the freight trains pound
  • into the wild, wild night
  • How I would love to gnaw,
  • gnaw on your bones so white,
  • and watch as the freight trains paw,
  • paw at the wild, wild night.
  • All these ghost towns, wreathed in old loam
  • (Assateague knee-deep in seafoam)-
  • Ho Swansea! Buttonwillow!
  • Lagunitas! Ho Calico!
  • And all these beastly bungalows
  • stare, distend, like endless toads -
  • endlessly hop down the road.
  • Borne by wind, we southward blow.
  • While yonder, wild and blue,
  • the wild blue yonder looms.
  • 'Till we are wracked with rheum,
  • by roads, by songs entombed.
  • And all we want to do
  • is chew, and chew, and chew!
  • Dear one, drive on,
  • when all we want to do
  • is chew, and chew, and chew.
  • And if you want to come on down (...)

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