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After listening to the alternate audio/video, these are my revised lyrics
A Diver is my love and I am his if I am to be deceived who takes one breath above for every hour below the sea
Who gave to me a jewel worth twice this woman’s life but would cost her less than laying at low tide to see her true love phosphoresce
And in an infinite regret Tell me why Is the pain of birth lighter born than the pain of death? I ain’t saying that I loved you first, but I loved you best
I know we must abide Each by the rules that bind us here The divers and the seers and the women on the pier
And how do you choose your form? How do you choose your name? How do you choose your life? How do you choose the time you must exhale and kick and rise?
And in an infinite capsize Like a boat tearing down the coast Double hulls bearing double masts I don’t know if you loved me most But you loved me last
Recall the word you gave To count your way across the depths of this arid world* Well, you will yoke the waves and lay a bed of shining pearls
I dream it every night the ringing (ie the ringing of the bell- mortality), oh the pale (ie the pale of Death?), the motes of sand dislodge the shucking cook and bright (still not convinced) the twin that cast off shells reveal a single heart of white
And in an infinite backslide ancient boulders sink past the west (ie the setting moon, which controls the tides) like a sword at the bearer’s fall I can’t claim that I knew you best, but did you know me at all?
Woman is a lie A woman is a lie You do not take her for a sign an anchor on a stone, alone, unfaceted and fine and never will I win I’ll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom of my life And ever hold my breath ‘til I may be the Diver’s wife
See how the infinite divides and the divers are not to blame for the rift spanning distant shores You don’t know my name but I know yours.
*I definitely think it is "arid", not "severed". I think that these lines are referring to the tides coming in, covering the dry sand (arid, meaning moistureless, dry), and the waves are "yoked", not "lurked" ("yoke" as in, the wooden harness thing that cattle wear to pull heavy loads). Whomever (the personified Moon, in my opinion) she's referring to is pulling the waves in over the dry sand- fits with the tide imagery
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^ Which would then make the bull reference seem more likely, though I'm now convinced it's actually "boat." I wanted to believe it was a Last Unicorn reference, too.
I couldn't be more sure that it's "bull" - yes, "boat" would seem to make more sense given the next line, but I don't hear a 't' at all, I hear a very pronounced 'l'.
But if it's a bull, where do the hulls and masts fit in?
Also shucking works really perfectly, cos then "the twinned (oysters have a top and bottom shell, thus, two) and cast-off (shucked) shells reveal a single heart of white (a pearl, fitting with the other pearls)."
And he used to make me pray, wearing a mask like a death's head. When he put me there in the back seat, and he said, "Jesus save me, Jesus save me."
In her previous albums Ms. Newsom has employed the word-without-saying-a-word tactic multiple times. By pronouncing a word with a heavy slur, or even by omitting the word where that particular rhyme may be expected. My theory, gentlemen, is that although the word is most definitely 'boat', she is pronouncing it much more like 'bull' to make us understand that the boat is tearing down the coast much like a bull would.
I'm glad that old crazy guy is still around, I must admit I fall head over heels (but I'm saying it "hills") with any man that can show me a trace of mental illness.