The Annotated Joanna Newsom, Part 1

... and I can recall our caravel¹ a little wicker beetle-shell with four fine masts and lateen² sails its bearings on Cair Paravel³ oh my love oh it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen the sight of bridges and balloons makes calm canaries irritable⁶ and they caw and claw all afternoon catenaries⁴ and dirigibles⁵ ...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravel
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cair_Paravel
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigibles


Bridges, balloons, catenaries, dirigibles. Ahhh... Sublime. Darren Hanlon has met his match - no, his new master. :)

Ps, how many of those five words did you know? Me, one.

Thanks to Milky Moon.