Swansea Lyrics - Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom

If you wanna come on down 

Down with your bones so white 

And watch while the freight trains pound 

Into the wild wild night 

How I would love to gnaw 

Gnaw on your bones so white 

And watch as the freight trains paw 

Paw at the wild wild night 

All these ghost towns 

Wreathed in old loam 

Assateague knee- 

Deep in seafoam 

Ho, swansea! 

Buttonwillow! 

Lagunitas! 

Ho, calico! 

And all these beastly bungalows 

Stare distend like endless toads 

Endlessly hop down the road 

Borne by wind we southward blow 

And yonder, wild and blue 

The wild blue yonder looms 

'Til we are wracked with rheum 

By roads, by songs entombed 

And all we wanna do 

Is chew and chew and chew 

Dear one 

Drive on 

When all we wanna do 

Is chew and chew and chew 

And if you wanna come on down 

Down with your bones so white 

And watch the freight trains pound 

Into the wild wild night 

How I would love to gnaw 

To gnaw on your bones so-o white 

And watch while the freight trains paw 

Paw at the wild wild night 

Paw at the wild wild night 

Paw at the wild wild night