You Will Not Take My Heart Alive

　　You Will Not Take My Heart Alive - Joanna Newsom

　　And what do you remember most?

　　The line of the sea, seceding the coast?

　　Fine capillaries, glowing with cars?

　　The comfort you drew from the light of the stars?

　　And how long did you climb that night

　　With the ice in your lungs, on the rungs of the light?

　　Beyond recall, you severed all strings

　　To everyone, and everything

　　Oh, silent, constant driver of mine:

　　Wordlessly calling from the end of the line

　　Where, even though each hour I ever loved

　　Must queue and dive

　　Still, you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart,

　　In martial wind, and in clarion rain

　　We minced into battle, wincing in pain;

　　Not meant for walking, backs bound in twine:

　　Not angel or devil

　　But level, in time

　　And I rose, to take my shape at last

　　From the dreams that had dogged me, through every past

　　When, to my soul, the body would say

　　You may do what you like

　　As long as you stay

　　Now the towns and forests, highways and plains

　　Fall back in circles like an emptying drain

　　And I won't come round this way again

　　Where the lonely wind abides

　　And you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart, alive

　　you will not take my heart