Joanna Newsom - Go Long (with lyrics)

[RickesRives]

It's funny 'cause most of Joanna's songs are sad, -at least most of them are sad for me, including this one- but you can't stop listening to them.

[81920011]

I have never seen such a terrible room gilded with the gold teeth of the women who loved you.

[LolaLovesBass]

so as she's spinning a web to catch me when i'm super sensitive and cracked.brilliantly emotional.

[kate8771]

Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest If I knew you, once, now I know you less In the sinking sand, where we've come to rest Have I had a hand in your loneliness

HOLY SHIT! PERFECT!

[kate8771]

Joanna Newsom > Everyone else.

[CDRJoc]

"When you leave me alone in this old palace of yours, it starts to get to me."

my god, the imagery in this song is insane.

[zuckerarm]

Broke my young heart.

[EmmysSecretVideos]

5:40 split my heart right open

[ranice]

My heart is melting. ... help.

[dannyandkendra]

i find it funny that so many people would hate this song and listen to justin beiber. why listen to someone so shallow and main stream as justin when u can be listening to joanna? her lyrics have meaning. she has meaning. she has true raw beauty and talent. u cant say that about many of the mainstream clones.

[michaelschell]

Agreed agreed. Who else is there? Radiohead as a group of artists? Tori Amos? I know it's outside the genre here but...Tool? Joanna has reinspired me to add vibrance and care in my own crafts and i am so thankful. My cat (nerd that I am) is named Cosmia. ~le sigh~ I do want to know about other artists that are as sensitive and intentional and passionate.

[HeadfulOfHollow]

"Probably the most important musician alive" - Devendra Banhart

[Hubris73]

I want this girl to be the Wealhtheow to my Beowulf.

[rawstrength]

I love this song but I really want to know why the narrators ankles are bound in gauze.  It's been driving me crazy thinking about it. It's like a riddle.

Do you know why my ankles are bound in gauze?

[thislittleboy]

@rawstrength because they danced in the middle of the woods like two panting monkeys?

[charrtoo]

@rawstrength  i think its a reference to her being a chicken.. maybe?

[MichaelaVonBraun]

@charrtoo It's based on the fairy tale "Bluebeard"

[charrtoo]

@MichaelaVonBraun nice... i don't know the story but i'll google it or something... thank you :)

[sicilysky]

im in love with this song. 

[blackglassesgirl]

CAN'T STOP LISTENING. :]

[blackglassesgirl]

@blackglassesgirl No, seriously. It's at least twice a day, almost religiously. I just can't get enough of it.

[leehazlewoodism]

I heard her play this live a couple of days ago and suddenly came up with the theory it might be about Will Oldham. In the last seven lines are "..down the road", "master everything" and "...letting go". I thought they were all references. And, if you squint and read the other lyrics with this in mind you can make other obscure references, there's a blue, a beard, a palace. I'm probably reading too much into it.

[squirtgunrobbery]

why doesn't she ever perform this live? this and Does Not Suffice are the only two she doesn't ever perform, I believe. it's a shame, since those are the two best songs on the new record. so beautifull.

[aebeverley]

@squirtgunrobbery she performed this live at green man festival, it left a very deep impact on me

[ducky3d]

The first time I heard this, I cried. A beautifully told story.

[Akatosh86]

i dont think this song is specifically about the Bluebird. It's more about the distance between men and women. Essentially, it is a very heartbreaking and bittersweet song.

[parisianna87]

kentucky

[catholicknees]

"I will give you a call for one last hurrah" favorite part.<3

[SupineMonkey]

@catholicknees Me too! I love her delicate innuendo. It reminds me of my favorite line in Only Skin- 'In my doorway we shucked and jived'

[misstwopennies]

To me this is the song most directly about her break up with Bill Callahan - the references to the men with their guitars and pens, and all the parts about him feeling wronged and 'tore up since birth' seems to reflect the general sulleness of Smog's lyrics.

I think the 'silly goose' is a reference to Byron - that's what his sister (who he was in love with) referred to him as.

I love the lines about women opening doors regardless of whether they're locked or unlocked. Beautiful.

[angievigilante]

I love the bluebeard reference

[HillaryClinton]

One of my favorites on the album. Those runs on the harp, kora and tambura are just so beautiful--it's an almost Ravel-esque sound they're producing. ♥ Joanna

[tlrmcknnn]

@HillaryClinton My favorite as well. Joanna Newsom is the perfect artist for someone who completely understands music, someone who likes to pick apart lyrics, and someone who knows emotion's relationship with music. Those artists are nearly impossible to find these days which is why she is so mystifying. She has the ability to surprise and enchant those who are literate, those who are musically inclined and everything in between. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.

[SPREADEROFLIGHT]

@tlrmcknnn astounded by your statement

[kelsohammy]

@HillaryClinton I don't know whether I like your comment so much because it's true or because I'm picturing Hillary Clinton sitting at her computer listening to Joanna Newsom.

[ZOMGYouSmell]

@HillaryClinton Hello, Hillary Clinton.

[FidelioRoo]

I cannot get over that she says "silly goose" in this...

(this is not a good or a bad thing it is just... SILLY GOOSE...)

[SupineMonkey]

I hate to say it, but I find this triple album repetitive and sub-par lyrically compared to the flawless Ys. This song is the exception. So lovely, perfect, and memorable. I can do without the triple time epilogue, but that aside I can listen to this track on repeat for hours.

[daegrant]

SupineMonkey, I don't go that far, I think it's a great album with some wonderful tracks (of which this is also my favourite) but it is not a patch lyrically on Ys and doesn't have the ambition and audacity of that release. It's still one of the best recordings I have heard this year though...

[SupineMonkey]

@daegrant I do find myself slowly warming to the rest of the album. I still find the harp coda at the end of this track to be weirdly jarring and out of place. Am I the only one?

[daegrant]

@SupineMonkey I am listening to the album at the moment (on vinyl which I strongly recommend). After umpteen listens my view is still as above. I for one love the harp and kora coda on "Go Long". Hopefully it doesn't mar your enjoyment too much. What I now want is a Toumani Diabete and Joanna Newsom album. That could be magic...

[1313sp]

I love her harp playing so much on this one (not that I don't on others;). It sounds like the ultimate otherworldly music box.

[derbestemann]

the tale of bluebeard!

[tessaming]

so lovely...... !!

[chiaroscurokept]

My favorite so far.