Kept Woman lyrics

[At night]1

Anna, you're lost in a shadow there

Cinder and smoke hanging in the air

Oh, and I know you'll be

Bolder than me, I was high, I was unaware 

God above saw, ever in the mind

Blue and white irises in a line

Under your nameless shame

I left you in frame, and you rose to be ossified

As a Rose of the Oceanside

[It bloomed]  

Too long till the light of the morning

So unseen, as light in a dream

Too long now to the rising

Too long now to the rising

[It wilted]  

Can you be slow for a little while?

Widow your soul for another mile?

I'm just the same as when

You saw me back then

And we're bound to be reconciled

We're bound to be reconciled

[It bloomed]  

Too long swinging the knife

All will wash over you, in a night so unending

Not long now to the rising

Not long now to the rising

[It wilted]  

Anna, you're lost in a shadow there

Cinder and smoke hanging in the air

Oh, and I know you'll be

Bolder than me, I was high, I was unaware

[It rose]  

1. The parts in brackets and italics are not spoken/sung words, but are part of the official lyrics from the lyric booklet. This album tells a story, so these function like scene headings in a screenplay and give additional information and context to the lyrics.

• Artist:Fleet Foxes
• Album:Crack-Up (2017)