Seem an I

by PJ Harvey

From the album: I Inside the Old Year Dying

Track 4 of 12 on I Inside the Old Year Dying (2023).

Duration: 3:06

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Lyrics for Seem an I

Bedraggled angels blethered Across Eleven Acres As belling from the bwoneyard A-rangled round the archet Her fingernails a-ripped From hauling clay-filled fists Out of the river's edges For pots with happy voices Conzum-ed with twanketen That's only eased by scratching Whisp-words slim as thistles Or a sickly chicken's whistles Seem an I a childhood Of quartere'il and wormwood Of not-friends running nowhere Of vog a-veiling elsewhere Till in the vaulted barn Queer-lit by dummet zun She knew herself a vessel Fit for a different wordle Where footsteps must be lwone And barefoot upon stones And the northwind's ever-host Gives edges to the ghosts Seem an I a childhood Of quartere'il and wormwood Of not-friends running nowhere Of vog a-veiling elsewhere Of mother's voice not-calling Of corrugated iron Of devil's birds and whiskey Of chilver hogs and fleecy And nuts I could not reapy And nuts I could not reapy

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More from I Inside the Old Year Dying

  1. Prayer at the Gate
  2. Autumn Term
  3. Lwonesome Tonight
  4. Seem an I
  5. The Nether-edge
  6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
  7. All Souls
  8. A Child's Question, August
  9. I Inside the Old I Dying
  10. August
  11. A Child's Question, July
  12. A Noiseless Noise