Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan Lyrics
The cause is Ozymandian.
The map of Sapokanikan
is sanded and bevelled,
the land lone and leveled
by some unrecorded and powerful hand
which plays along the monument
and drums upon a plastic bag.
The "Brave Men and Women So Dear to God
and Famous to All of the Ages" rag.
Sang:
"Do you love me?
Will you remember?"
The snow falls above me.
The renderer renders:
Beneath a patch of grass, her
bones the old Dutch master hid.
While elsewhere Tobias
and the angel disguise
what the scholars surmise was a mother and kid.
Interred with other daughters,
in dirt in other potters' fields
above them, parades
mark the passing of days
through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel,
where all of the twenty-thousand attending your foot fall
and the cause that they died for are lost in the idling bird calls,
and the records they left are cryptic at best,
lost in obsolescence.
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
with any fluorescence
where the hand of the master begins and ends.
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be.
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me?
I call and call for the doctor
but the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
and the event lives only in print.
He said:
"It's alright,"
and "It's all over now,"
and boarded the plane,
his belt unfastened;
the boy was known to show unusual daring.
And, called a “boy”,
this alderman, confounding Tammany Hall,
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall.
So we all raise a standard
to which the wise and honest soul may repair,
to which a hunter,
a hundred years from now, may look and despair
and see with wonder
the tributes we have left to rust in the parks,
swearing that our hair stood on end
to see John Purroy Mitchel depart
for the Western front where our work might count.
All exeunt, all go out,
await the hunter to decipher the stone,
and what lies under. Now the city is gone.
Look and despair.
Look and despair.
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Joanna Newsom Sapokanikan Comments
i love you
I wonder how it sounds when Kate Bush has sung this song in her early years. I love this one though.
I love her style , but i dont get why andy is her superfan while he is making dope songs with dope beats like that bin laden song , it is so catchy .. i mean if he love this kind of style he should make one
The second half of this song is other-worldly
She's doing my favourite thing in the video while being cute and confusing me with her lyrics. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
She is a great singer, but I can't stand her. Too contrived, too pretentious, too falsely childish. What a wasted talent
She sounds like a Chinese robot from the past 10/10
Joanna sings about clone life
Reminds me of Fiona Apple
this is my first time listening to Joanna. her voice is so unique and interesting. i’ve never heard anything like this before.
Que talento maravilhoso..!!❤❤👏🏾👏🏾😍😍
No. just no.
what a terrible & shit song, also you can tell this horrible looking & horrible sounded trash, is a junkie
All hail Russia as motherland and bvest country blyat
what the fuck. I got to 3:50 and saw the dislike bar and was like how the hell can anyone dislike this. Seriously! are some people just that sound deaf??
She has the most incredible vocal range and control
Redofa'S
I love watching this video, such a Beautiful song by Joanna Newsom and this is a great video, there three points I look forward to... Firstly when Joanna air drums, sat on the bench and the little child stares at her, second point is when she walks through the takeaway shop and the lad watches her and the third and best part is when you see the fire engine's lights in the distance and then she eventually passes by the engine! I will never tire from watching this, if I'm not sure what to watch this is one of a chosen few I repeat a viewing! Thank you.
Do I know what sings means? Not really. Hahaha
I'm really bummed I'm not friends with Joanna Newsom and PTA
High-pitched voice. A nothing burger. Move along folks with your social media hype.
Doidinha
One of the best artists of the modern century
It breaks my heart I will never be as talented or as smart as Joanna.
She got to that point from hard work and dedication. Don't just boil it up to be talent.
finnaly i found what i was looking for - strange voice pop music THANKS
oh lol i though that this is french song but this is actually english... what a mindblowing
@ZiMarts The lyrics are absolutely insane. Her songwriting is on another level.
It's kinda pretty but weird sounds and pitch not for me but I am sure some people like it
This is just magical...makes my chest hurt, it's so beautiful. Also I think she was the reason I started writing, after hearing her earlier stuff from the first album/demo, and a few other antifolk types. Truly magical, thank you Ms Newsom, for such incredible music over the years.
Miss lady will you please just let Spotify play your music
Imagine Joanna as a granny singing to her grandchildren. That's blessed.
Joanna Newsom is the reason why I close Spotify and open YouTube once in a while
this song, indeed, but this video, too! I've listened to it a hundred times but only now did I realize that as she approached the firetruck from around 3:08, it seems like she makes a series of motions for the cameraman to film the firetruck instead of her - she like nods and bows towards it - and at the same time it just looks like she puts emphasis on what she's singing, or that she's feeling how heavy it is, maybe the song as well as the events taking place as they were filming, as the firetruck flickered its' lights. There's not one thing that has only one meaning to be found in it, not in the song and not in the video
Her voice & delivery lives in the uncanny valley between beautiful and unbearably irritating.
Why isnt this on spotify... :'/
She doesnt like spotify
This is crazy
How could any one like this trash
It's perfectly ok to not like this, but you must know it's not trash just because it isnt your thing. You cant say there isnt any talent here.
uhhh yeah
It's been 4 years, hopefully she releases a new album soon💜
The cause is Ozymandian
The map of Sapokanikan
Is sanded and bevelled
The land lorn and levelled
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
Which plays along the monument
And drums upon a plastic bag
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
Sang: Do you love me?
Will you remember?
The snow falls above me
The renderer renders:
The event is in the hand of God
Beneath a patch of grass, her
Bones the old Dutch master hid
While elsewhere Tobias
And the angel disguise
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
Interred with other daughters
In dirt in other potters' fields
Above them, parades
Mark the passing of days
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
And the records they left are cryptic at best
Lost in obsolescence
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
With any fluorescence
Where the hand of the master begins and ends
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
I call and call for the doctor
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
And the event lives only in print
He said:
"It's alright"
And "It's all over now"
And boarded the plane
His belt unfastened
The boy was known to show unusual daring
And, called a "boy"
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John's fall
So we all raise a standard
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
To which a hunter
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
And see with wonder
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Swearing that our hair stood on end
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
For the Western front where our work might count
O mercy! O God!
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under the city is gone
Look and despair
Look and despair
Hey, these lyrics are not official. Among some other minor mistakes, she does not sing "O Mercy! O God!", but "All exeunt. All go out." 😅
Lucas thanks haha. I just copied them from google as a reference for singing along
@Sabine D. Maloney Cool! I recommend joannanewsomlyrics.com, they have all the official lyrics there!
Lucas thanks so much!!
This is my favorite Joanna song ever
protect happy and sad joanna at all cost
Kate Bush
i think this song is about dead kings of great lands and great kings of dead lands
I was listening to this song in school and one of my friends took one of my earbuds and put it in her ear and listened to the rest of the song with me and as soon as it finished, she said "what the fuck did I just listen to???" Some people just don't understand art
did she died ?
Lyrics
The cause is Ozymandian
The map of Sapokanikan
Is sanded and bevelled
The land lorn and levelled
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
Which plays along the monument
And drums upon a plastic bag
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
Sang: Do you love me?
Will you remember?
The snow falls above me
The renderer renders:
The event is in the hand of God
Beneath a patch of grass, her
Bones the old Dutch master hid
While elsewhere Tobias
And the angel disguise
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
Interred with other daughters
In dirt in other potters' fields
Above them, parades
Mark the passing of days
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
And the records they left are cryptic at best
Lost in obsolescence
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
With any fluorescence
Where the hand of the master beginsand ends
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
I call and call for the doctor
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
And the event lives only in print
He said:
"It's alright"
And "It's all over now"
And boarded the plane
His belt unfastened
The boy was known to show unusual daring
And, called a "boy"
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John's fall
So we all raise a standard
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
To which a hunter
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
And see with wonder
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Swearing that our hair stood on end
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
For the Western front where our work might count
O mercy! O God!
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under the city is gone
Look and despair
Look and despair
It would be great if she didnt put on that fake accent to be "whimsical." There's a good voice in there somewhere.
that's just how she sings, there's no affectation. what's even "whismical" about it?
I might have her confused with someone else...but didn't she grow up without a lot of TV and stuff? This is what happens when you turn it all off.
Y's is still the greatest album ever written.
So, yes, go and listen to that when you're done
Where’s the bass?
I managed to hang on for about 20 seconds, and at least 5 of those were a desperate grab for the mute button.
If it wasn't for the lyrics, this would be a god-awful song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARCpXp9Kqk
put this on spotify or ill break yo'ure harp
she's very much against Spotify so i won't be surprised if she never puts her music on there
She's the one of the greatest things happened in music, Ys and Have one on me are masterpiece
one of my fave musicians for my shitty millennial life at least.
her voice is so different, it’s like Alt-J with Kate Bush
This video is a whole experience
Sounds like an elderly cat in angst. I can make out a few words here and there but it mostly sounds like gibberish. What is this singing "style" called? Jewish trashfire new york-chic? Sounds like it was produced by Epstein, weinstein, any kind of -stein.
This song is as addicting as crack.
I can’t stop thinking about this song on the daily.
Also.... I love Andy and wow
She's the definition of wooden pussy
Lmao, what that is cuh
So I just came her from Brooklyn 99 somehow
Joanna! Please do the spotify thing..... I buy all your albums anyway but I find I more often than not give money to someone whos uploaded your songs on YouTube for convenience. Make this not happen. Thanks
Matt Cunningham She has a contract with Drag City and she hates Spotify
the 1.4K dislikes are from people who wonder *WTF? Nothing Rhymes with Sapokanikan*
The older she gets, the more she reminds me of Julie Newmar.
4:15
That note
I didn't realize I was breathing sharply and had tears streaming down my eyes until the very end of this song . So heartfelt , the melody , the lyrical genius . We do not deserve this Goddess.
I'm sorry but this is trash how did I get here. Her voice is just bad
I have NO idea what she is saying but I have to admit I like this music
Simply Angelic
This video and Fiona apple's video for never is a promise are two sides of the same coin
Wow. This is so different. I don't know if I like it it or hate it but one thing I'm sure of is, it's on a whole different level art form of music. This is art.
This some Raymond Holt type shit
I must admit that I just now stumbled across Joanna Newsom because of Andy Samberg. This is the first song I've heard of hers. Halfway through the music video I thought to myself "this is the kind of artist that makes you feel smarter just for knowing them. A true and respectable artist." I had to look up the lyrics and shortly thereafter the meaning. It's 2am and I have put that aside to unpack tomorrow. I most definitely will listen to another song or two!
9 drops of bush, joni and melanie, 5 drops of nyro sauce ( when the stirring's done can i lick the spoon: of course, of course!) , now for the tincture of percy b, but i must use only a touch, for without a touch of freshman lit. it wouldn't be me.....oops, too much
Joanna Newsom.. one of the best underrated artists (un)known to man..
This Reminds me of Kate Bush. I like artists that do their own thing, are different, and unique.
And as a singer/musician myself who grew up listening to KB in the 70’s I’m allowed to voice an opinion. Please don’t frown. I wish some Native Americans would become famous and their amazing lyrics shared with the world. I’m tired of all the Dutch and Irish immigrants sharing. I love all people. Just tired of it.
Next..
sounding like Kate Bush
She's beautiful
This song is a frickin masterpiece.
Name one thing cuter and I’ll give you 31.4 bucks
gen x here to say: This is embarrassingly bad...
is she a goddess??
The event lives only in print
Will it, I wonder, someday be revealed that she and Kate Bush were, albeit some twenty years apart, both adopted by kindly yet unsuspecting human parents from a foundling home for the wayward old souls of fairyland?
Hmmm. A woman with the moves and voice of a child. Not really my thing, but whatever floats your boat, people.
Finally, someone who just'nt just hate on her. Thank you.
@Seedless Watermelon Thank you yourself! I always like good manners. Especially on the Internet!
i love that andy was her fan and they got married and they have a baby girl it's all so goals and cute
sounds like Karen O' and the Kids. The high pitched voice
Bro, can you put your sing-song stuff on Spotify?
She's never gonna do it. Even Robert fripp gave into the streaming but she's going to be the last woman standing
THEY’RE married??
Idiots! This should he at a billion views!
She is Gods most beautiful creation.
I love andy samberg
A beautiful young lady who has worked hard to use some of her God given talents.
Amazing.
It’s not bad, but it’s definitely different
I love. love. love her voice.
The cause is Ozymandian
The map of Sapokanikan
Is sanded and bevelled
The land lone and levelled
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
Which plays along the monument
And drums upon a plastic bag
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
Sang: Do you love me?
Will you remember?
The snow falls above me
The renderer renders:
The event is in the hand of God
Beneath a patch of grass, her
Bones the old Dutch master hid
While elsewhere Tobias
And the angel disguise
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
Interred with other daughters
In dirt in other potters' fields
Above them, parades
Mark the passing of days
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
And the records they left are cryptic at best
Lost in obsolescence
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
With any fluorescence
Where the hand of the master begins and ends
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
I call and call for the doctor
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
And the event lives only in print
He said:
"It's alright"
And "It's all over now"
And boarded the plane
His belt unfastened
The boy was known to show unusual daring
And, called a "boy"
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall
So we all raise a standard
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
To which a hunter
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
And see with wonder
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Swearing that our hair stood on end
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
For the Western front where our work might count
O mercy! O God!
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under the city is gone
Look and despair
Look and despair
Newsom and Imogen Heap lets do it!!
I honestly wish I was smart enough to truly understand and fully appreciate this song
Love this girl. And this one. Equally poetic: more accessible and melodic. joustene.com
It's she's like a baby from Alanis Morissette and Émilie Simon lol and Kate Bush's her gran.