Joanna Newsom's Go Long

Have One On Me
Released: 2010

Last night, again,
You were in my dreams.
Several expendable limbs were at stake.
You were a prince, spinning rims,
All sentiments indian-given
And half-baked.
I was brought
In on a palanquin
Made of the many bodies
Of beautiful women.
Brought to this place, to be examined,
Swaying on an elephant:

A princess of India.
We both want the very same thing.
We are praying
I am the one to save you.
But you don't even own
Your own violence.
Run away from home--
Your beard is still blue
With the loneliness of you mighty men,
With your jaws, and fists, and guitars,
And pens, and your sugarlip,
But I've never been to the firepits
With you mighty men.

Who made you this way?
Who made you this way?
Who is going to bear
Your beautiful children?
Do you think you can just stop,
When you're ready for a change?
Who will take care of you
When you're old and dying?

You burn in the Mekong,
To prove your worth.
Go long! Go long!
Right over the edge of the earth!
You have been wronged,
Tore up since birth.
You have done harm.
Others have done worse.

Will you tuck your shirt?
Will you leave it loose?
You are badly hurt.
You're a silly goose.

You are caked in mud,
And in blood, and worse.
Chew your bitter cud.
Grope your little nurse.

Do you know why
My ankles are bound in gauze?
(Sickly dressage: A princess of Kentucky)?
In the middle of the woods
(Which were the probable cause),
We danced in the lodge
Like two panting monkeys.

I will give you a call, for one last hurrah.
And if this tale is tall, forgive my scrambling.
But you keep palming along the wall,
Moving at a blind crawl,
But always rambling.

Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest.
If I knew you, once,
Now I know you less.
In the sinking sand,
Where we've come to rest,
Have I had a hand in your loneliness?

When you leave me alone
In this old palace of yours,
It starts to get to me. I take to walking.
What a woman does is open doors.
And it is not a question of locking
Or unlocking.

Well, I have never seen
Such a terrible room--
Gilded with the gold teeth
Of the women who loved you!
Now, though I die,
Magpie, this I bequeath:
By any other name,
A Jay is still blue

With the loneliness
Of you mighty men,
With your mighty kiss
That might never end,
While, so far away,
In the seat of the West,
Burns the fount Of the heat
Of that loneliness.

There's a man
Who only will speak in code,
Backing slowly, slowly down the road.
May he master everything
That such men may know
About loving, and then letting go.

Jeff Buckley's Nightmares by the Sea

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Released: 1998

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons
Little girl wants to make her home with him
In the middle of the shore, she wonders
"Don't know what you asked for"
"Don't know what you asked for"

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye
Yeah Bluebeard's young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you'll go

I've loved so many times and I've drowned them all
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls
With their bones they'll scratch the window
I hear them call
"Don't know what you asked for"
"Don't know what you asked for"
"Don't know what you asked for"

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye
Yeah Bluebeard's young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you'll go
Stay with me under these waves, tonight
Be free for once in your life, tonight

Yeah Bluebeard is young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you'll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye
Bluebeard's young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you'll go

All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye
Bluebeard's young and handsome
So new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you will go

Toni Child's Predator

The Woman’s Boat
Released: 1994

Walking down the road
I feel so low, low, low
And I'm feeling like I don't know life
I don't know, know, know
There's something in my head
Something haunting me
Something that I'd rather say
Goodbye, goodbye

It's another deception
It's a voice that's being cruel
It's the predator deep inside

You meet a bluebeard on the road
He's saying hello, hello
And he shakes you by the hand
He says you're gonna blow
Man you're gonna blow
He's a clever person my dear
He's a clever one to fear
He's the one that says don't open up that door

It's a monster, i can tell you
It's someone to be scared of
It's the predator deep inside

He's coming for you
He's coming for you now
He's coming for you now
He, he sounds a little scary
As he whispers, he tells you and you frown
You're losing, losing your ground
You want to, move him out
Deny he's there
But you can't let out that he's in your head

It's the predator
It's the predator who lives inside your head

It's the predator inside you It's remarkable disguise--you It's the mask you won't admit inside your head

Walk with the man at night
He says he don't know, know, know
And he's fucking with your head
You don't know, know, know

It's radio k-fuck
It's coming in loud and clear
But the signals crossed
You can't shut it off
And it knows no fear
It's a monster
I can tell you
It's someone to be scared of
It's the predator deep inside

It's not the sharks outside you
It's not living in the dark
It's what lurks inside your mind
That it sparks

Custard's Bluebeard

A Realm of Tales
Released: 2017

You look so beautiful
Your eyes are shining bright like starlight
Don't be afraid of me
My beard is blue, but my heart is pure

I'll make your dreams come true
But darling there's one rule to follow
The big black door below
Never look behind, never ask for more

Approve that I can trust in you and keep all of my keys
Forbidden is the golden one
Be reliable, not on any terms you may deceive me

Never - give in to the temptation
Never - use that golden key
Don't you know? The cat was killed by curiosity
Never - creep into the darkness
Never - break against my law
Be warned about - something wicked waits behind that door

You broke against my rules
The signs are blatantly obvious
The key is full of blood
You saw my corpse collection, my secret is unfold

Now you know the fate of those who you follow on
You'll suffer for your treachery
Be a part of my collection, you will rot forever in my dungeon deep

Never - give into the temptation
Never - use that golden key
Don't you know? The cat was killed by curiosity
Never - creep into the darkness
Never - break against my law
Be warned about - something wicked waits behind that door.

Cocteau Twin's Bluebeard

Four-Calendar Café
Released: 1993

Aliveness
Exploration
Aliveness
Energy

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?

Aliveness
Exploration
Fulfillment
Creativity

It may be diverting
For some part of him

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?

Naming things is empowering
I balance, walk, and coordinate myself, alive
Aliveness energy

Healthy dependence
And healthy independence
And healthy assurances
This love's a nameless dream
And healthy boundaries
And how long would you miss me

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?

Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?

They Might Be Giant's Mrs. Bluebeard

I Like Fun
Released: 2018

I want to say I learned something valuable today
Alas, my murdered remains are incapable of learning anything
Trusted you
I should have never trusted you
In fact I never did
What's the use
I'm not complaining
I'm not anything

Is this what's supposed to happen
When you're only trying to do right in this wicked world?
Probably I should already know this
Probably I should graciously accept what I get

Most people wouldn't hang the corpses up for review
Dearest, I can only hope most people are nothing like you
Nervous tics
That I pretended not to see
That's how I was brought up
Warning signs
Death metal albums
"Hang in there, baby" poster

Is this how you thank somebody
For their selfless loyalty? Is this what you do?
Pardon me for failing to grasp how this works
Excuse my breathtaking ignorance

Is this what's supposed to happen
When you're only trying to do right in this wicked world?
Probably I should already know this
Probably I should graciously accept what I get

Maiden said, "I'll marry you
I'll be yours and I'll be true
I'll consent to be your bride
All my days, at your side
That is how I'll live my life"

Maiden no more

Her mother and her sister warned
The man, he was not natural born
His eyes were black and his beard was blue
But the maiden saw her own love true
There was nothing they could do

Maiden no more

The man gave her a ring of keys
Professed his love down on his knees
Said, "Everything I have is free
But this one door and this one key"
He said, "Don't you look in there
Or I'll kill you cold and dead, I swear"
Gave her such a weight to bear

Then the man, he rode away
And the bride went wild night and day
Only to find she wanted more
She had the key, she found the door
Chain and blood was on the floor
A stain that was not there before

Maiden no more
Maiden no more
Maiden no more
Maiden no more

The man came back to take her life
To cut her with the cold grey knife
To lay her there with all the rest
Blood and bones and faded dress
To cast her to the deep darkness

But the man with his intentions stated
Found he'd underestimated
The forces of the sea and the sand
The light and the life of the land
All rose up with a hundred hands
All rose up and killed that man
All rose up with a hundred hands
All rose up and killed that man

Maiden no more
Maiden no more
Maiden no more
Maiden no more

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Le Sserafim's Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard's Wife

Unforgiven
Released: 2023

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Blackbriar's Bluebeard's Chamber

A Thousand Little Deaths
Released: 2025

I wish I was still inside
My dream made of your lies
But it was as if I was compelled to
Prick my finger
On the spinning wheel
A difficult inner ordeal

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh
I've ruined it all
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

And as Aurora pricked her finger
And Pandora opened the box
I got inside Bluebeard's chamber
Which forcefully woke me up

Oh-oh-oh-oh
I've ruined it all
I've ruined it all

I wish I was still inside
My dream made of your lies
Where we were having peculiar chemistry
That left me brеathlessly
But apparently
I have thе tendency to ruin it all

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh
I've ruined it all
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

And as Aurora pricked her finger
And Pandora opened the box
I got inside Bluebeard's chamber
Which forcefully woke me up
And as Psyche, shone a light
To see what she could not
I got inside Bluebeard's chamber
Which forcefully woke me up

Now I cannot wash this blood off
I have seen too much and stained your trust
I cannot wash this blood off
It spreads with every touch
I'm covered in blood

Oh, I've ruined it all
Ruined it all
Ruined it all
Ruined it all
Ruined it all
Ruined it all

And as Aurora pricked her finger
And Pandora opened the box
I got inside Bluebeard's chamber
Which for forcefully woke me up
And as Psyche shone a light
To see what she could not
I got inside Bluebeard's chamber
Which forcefully woke me up

The Brook & the Bluff's Bluebeard

Bluebeard
Released: 2023

Still had your picture in my pocket
Carried it through customs in my wallet
Found it in a ruin, thought I lost it
If pictures say so much
Wonder what they'd say about us
Would your eyes still show the dust?
Would you swear that's where something once was?
You were my best friend and it's been,
It's been six months
Haven't heard much

[Instrumental Break]

Messages
I, I wasn't prepped for this
Don't, don't turn your back on me
Stop, we'll stop the shoulder spin

[Instrumental Break]

Don't, don't turn your back on me
Stop, we'll stop the shoulder spin
Don't, don't turn your back on me
Stop, we'll stop the shoulder spin (Stop the shoulder spin)
(Goodbye now, ah-ah-mm)
(Goodbye now, mm-mm, mm)
(Goodbye now, ah-ah-mm)
(Goodbye now, mm-mm, mm)