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Goose Eggs by Joanna Newsom Goose Eggs Tuning:E A D G B E Capo:no capo B F# A What we built, at the kiln that won’t be stilled G Did not set well: B F# The old veil of desire A Like the vessels that we fired G Fell thin as eggshells Bm A And every season, somebody burns Downtown, taking turns– C G Taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose Bm A Now the wind blows coals over the hills. Honey I’ve been paying my bills C G But honey it’s been a long time since I’ve come to any use Bm And it hurt me bad, when I heard the news D That you’d got that call, and could not refuse A E (A goose, alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese E D A F#m Who never find their peace, whether North, or South, or West, or East, West or East; E And I could never find my way D A To being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me G F Till the needing had ceased.) B F# A Recently, a bottle of rye, and a friend, and me, G on our five loose legs, B F# had a ramble, and spoke A G of the scrambling of broken hopes, and goose eggs, Bm A and a stranger, long ago. (Not you, honey! You, I know.) C G We just spoke of broken hopes and old strangers. Bm A Now the wind blows coals over the sea. Tell you what, honey: you and me C G Better run and see if we can't contain them, first. Bm But you had somewhere that you had to go, D and you caught that flight out of Covalo. A E Now, overhead, you’re gunning in those Vs, E where you had better find your peace, D A F#m whether north, or south, or west, or east. West, or east. E And I had better find my way D A to being the kind of friend you seemed to need in me, G F at last (at least). E What’s redacted will repeat, D A and you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat, F#m so we touch the heat, E and we cut facsimiles of love and death D A (just separate holes in sheets G F where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see). E D And I cannot now, for the life of me, believe our talk— A our flock had cause to leave, F#m E D but do we? do we? --------