A Pin-Light Bent

by Joanna Newsom

From the album: Divers

Track 10 of 11 on Divers (2015).

Duration: 04:26

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Lyrics for A Pin-Light Bent

My life comes and goes. My life comes and goes. Short flight, free rows: I lie down and doze. My life came and went. My life came and went. Short flight; free descent. Poor flight attendant. But the sky, over the ocean! And the ocean, skirting the city! And the city, bright as a garden (When the garden woke to meet me), From that height was a honeycomb Made of light from those funny homes, intersected: Each enclosed, anelectric and alone. In our lives is a common sense That relies on the common fence That divides, and attends, But provides scant defense From the Great Light that shine through a pin-hole, When the pin-light calls itself Selfhood, And the Selfhood inverts on a mirror In an Amora Obscura. But it's mine. Or, at least, it's lent. And my life, until the time is spent Is a pin-light, bent. It's a pin-light, bent.

More from Divers

  1. Anecdotes
  2. Sapokanikan
  3. Leaving the City
  4. Goose Eggs
  5. Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
  6. The Things I Say
  7. Divers
  8. Same Old Man
  9. You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
  10. A Pin-Light Bent
  11. Time, As a Symptom