Cassiopeia - Joanna Newsom

Feel the mattress tense beneath me 
Like the muscle of non-sleepy 
Feathers flexing will defeat me 
And it vexes me complet-e-ly 

And the hexes heat covertly 
Like a slow low-flying turkey 
Like a texan drying jerky 
But his meaty mitts can't hurt me 

With my steely will compounded 
In a mighty mound that's hounded 
By the snap your steel string sounded 
Just before your snores unwound it 

And in store are dreams so daring 
That the night can't stop from staring 
And i'll swim sweetly as a herring 
Through the ether not despairing 

Go to sleep 
You stunning sky 

Gently creep 
Cunning by 

Quiet hum 
Is amplified 

By your thumb 
That you suck dry 

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh 
Oh, you hold your breath and clasp at cassiopeia 

Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh 
Oh, and you hold your breath and clasp at cassiopeia 

Cassiopeia 
Cassiopeia 
Oh 
Cassiopeia