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Cartographer

from Ghosties by Gawain and The Green Knight

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lyrics

Humble cartographer, yes
Mumbling
Bumbling cartographer
Here to serve your ship, sir

Lookie, my inks and pens
See how I sharpened them
My parchment
Newly sent
From London, oh
I am not homesick, no
My home's still out there
Somewhere
Someday
I hope to draw

Ooowee, three months at sea
Orange-breath
No signs yet
Of scurvy
Ma would be so proud of me

Up in my crow's nest, yes
That's where I do my best
Imagining
What I'll see
When that salted spray
Finally gives way
To that
Secret scented scintillating
Sacred shaded salivating
Shore

(Shore, shore, shore)

I see it
Rising out the water
Like the belly of a bathing god
I tremble to describe it, yes
I tremble now
Inside it

My god,
No one ever told me it could ever look like this
My god,
No one ever told me it could ever look like this
How am I
How am I
How am I
How am I supposed to map you
When my hands can hardly handle handling
Anything not you
Not you
Your dirt
Your sap
Your sour trees
Sweet howling of your breeze
I am untamed by you

Earnest cartographer, yes
Nervous unlearned cartographer
Wholly unprepared for

Your wildfire wildflowers
Dizzy blue witching hours
Permutations
Of constellations
Oh, your wintry streams
How they flood my dreams
I wake up shivering
And wet between
My hammock
And the wooden beams
I rock
Myself to sleep

I see you
Glowing in the moonlight
You seem to have no borders, no
I tremble to describe you
Yes
I tremble now
Inside you

My god,
No one ever told me it could ever look like this
My god,
No one ever told me it could ever look like this

How am I
How am I
How am I
How am I supposed to map you
When my hands can hardly handle handling
Anything not you
Not you
Your dirt
Your sap
Your sour trees
Sweet howling of your breeze
Ooooo I am untamed by you
Ooooo I am untamed by you
Oooo

My god,
No one ever told me love could ever feel like this
My god,
No one ever told me love could ever feel like this

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from Ghosties, released November 2, 2018

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Gawain and The Green Knight Brooklyn, New York

Music for falling in love with the ghost in your attic.

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