'81 (Joanna Newsom)

If you coddle your craft
If you wrap your education in velvet 
You will succeed
You will succeed!

If you coddle your craft
And keep impostors from attempting your tricks
You will succeed
You will succeed!

You’ve worked so hard
I know you’ve worked so hard
And someone else who’s worked a different hard
Is taking up your space

You’ve spent too much
Time and money and god knows what
To let a lazy dilettante sing odes reserved for those who learned them well -
Is that right?
       
If you coddle your craft
And keep it precious, keep it from the coup
You will succeed
Oh, I know, you will succeed!
You will succeed
in killing it.

Coddle

SSA with ukulele arranged for a friend's wedding. 

Ave Maria

we were passing through here
ghost upon a ghost
you set to abandon
and I content to float
strangers all around us
tired and turned in
we might've been among them
if I didn't look up

and oh we are the sum of all our chances
although we took them all
we only needed one

i'd sit wide awake nights
or drink them 'til they died
and fall asleep as street lamps' light would match the skies
headaches and hangovers walked me to the train
I would still be riding them
if I didn't look up

and oh we are the sum of all our chances
although we took them all
we only needed one

if you had been only a circle on a board
and I was given thirty years to draw my bow
say I tripped and wavered
say I lost my aim
I'd back to my quiver and start it all again

and oh we are the sum of all our chances
although we took them all
we only needed one

If I Didn't Look Up

Sampling "Undertow" by Anna Vogelzang - https://theanna.bandcamp.com/track/undertow

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

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Old Blue Eyes - A Tribute To Frank D. On His 70th Birthday

2002 Oswego High School Solo Showcase. This explains so much. It gets real good at 2:01.

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