Joanna Newsom - Esme lyrics

I can feel a difference Today, a difference All of us in our tents Fearing God like a mistress We 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 clear Later, I stumbled to my bed Al alone in the branches I laid in the dark, thinking about all Of my friends and their changes And I do not know if you know just what you have done You are the sweetest one I have ever laid my eyes upon It's a beautiful town with the rain coming down Blackberry, rosemary, Jimmy Crack Corn You've got the run of the place, now that you're running around And may kindness, kindness, kindness abound In this hour of our lives Hour of effortless plenty How do we know which parts of our hearts want what With such base generosity? Taking 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 storm The 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 us? And this is a world of terrible hardship, everywhere And I search for words to set you at ease. But there, in the looking-gla**, a kite is soaring Stilling my warring heart and my trembling knees Clean 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