Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
“Bridges and Balloons” opens Joanna Newsom’s debut album to find the young artist, then 22 years old, looking back fondly on the elaborate daydreams of her childhood. She displays a child-like wonder as, line by line, we are drawn into the Narnia-inspired fantasy world she created with her unnamed p...
[Verse 1]
We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, like all things, fades
And I can recall our caravel:
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine maste and lateen sails
Its bearings on Cair Paravel
[Chorus]
O my love
O it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to've seen
[Verse 2]
The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable;
They caw and claw all afternoon:
"Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living-room—
A loom of metal, warp—woof—wimble"
And a thimbles worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
[Chorus]
O my love
O it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to've seen
O my love
O it was a funny little thing
It was a funny, funny little thing
Bridges and Balloons was written by Joanna Newsom.
Bridges and Balloons was produced by Noah Georgeson.
Joanna Newsom released Bridges and Balloons on Tue Mar 23 2004.