Goose Eggs by Joanna Newsom
Goose Eggs by Joanna Newsom

Goose Eggs

Joanna Newsom * Track #4 On Divers

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Goose Eggs by Joanna Newsom

Release Date
Fri Oct 23 2015
Performed by
Joanna Newsom
Produced by
Noah Georgeson & Joanna Newsom
Writed by
Joanna Newsom
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Another shift in style; here, Newsom borrows rococo ornamentation to detail relationships and the effect time has on them, through the conceit of “eggshells.” The baroque colouring lends a purposefully antiquated feeling to the song. This relates to the album’s governing theme of time by alluding to...

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Goose Eggs Lyrics

What we built, at the kiln that won’t be stilled
Did not set well:

The old veil of desire
Like the vessels that we fired
Fell thin as eggshells

And every season, somebody burns
Downtown, taking turns —
Taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose
Now the wind blows coals over the hills. Honey
I’ve been paying my bills
But honey it’s been a long time since I’ve come to any use
And it hurt me bad, when I heard the news
That you’d got that call, and could not refuse

(A goose, alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese
Who never find their peace
Wether North, or South, or West, or East; West or East;
And I could never find my way
To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
Till the needing had ceased.)

Recently, a bottle of rye, and a friend, and me
On our five loose legs
Had a ramble, and spoke
Of the scrambling of broken hopes, and goose eggs
And a stranger, long ago
(Not you, honey! You, I know.)
Just spoke of broken hopes and old strangers
Now the wind blows coals over the sea. Tell you what, honey:
You and me better run and see if we can’t contain them, first

But you had somewhere that you had to go
And you caught that flight out of Covelo
Now, overhead, you’re gunning in those Vs
Where you had better find your peace
Whether North, or South, or West, or East. West, or East
And I had better find my way
To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me
At last (at least)

What’s redacted will repeat
And you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat
So we touch the heat
And we cut facsimiles of love and death
(Just separate holes in sheets
Where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see)

And I cannot now, for the life of me, believe our talk —
Our flock had cause to leave
But do we?
Do we?

Goose Eggs Q&A

Who wrote Goose Eggs's ?

Goose Eggs was written by Joanna Newsom.

Who produced Goose Eggs's ?

Goose Eggs was produced by Noah Georgeson & Joanna Newsom.

When did Joanna Newsom release Goose Eggs?

Joanna Newsom released Goose Eggs on Fri Oct 23 2015.

What did Joanna Newsom say about "Goose Eggs"?

This British Isles sea shanty with a narrative in which I’m talking about colonizing alternate iterations of the terrestrial position in the multiverse. Colonizing time sideways, front and back, traveling in four directions through time. The subject matter is some of the heaviest and occasionally sa...

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