Emmy the Great North song lyrics

There's a place I'm gonna leave to

When all this questioning is through

I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North

Than my eyes have ever viewed

And though I know that the thought proceeds me

I know that others seek it too

But when I get where the needle leads me

Well I swear, and I swear, you'll never lead me away again

And in the time when the peace of islands

Was first by human hand disturbed

They built their houses and they said obedience

Was all the lives of men were worth

And in the shadow of the temperance

They laid boundaries in the dirt

And when the door had a narrow entrance

With their hands on their shirts they would pray for the non-believers

And there's a place called North

And they're gathering there to sing

And I knock three times and beg them

But they will not let me in

And "Oh, my girl" they say

"You're the carrier to no gain"

But I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and

Would you turn me away again?

And do you go where the needle leads to

And when you get there will you change?

Out where the nights are soft

And now you go because you think that Paradise should be tamed

And how you live is by a map of humanity

And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves

But I've seen what you see

It looks different to me

I see lights to the shore

And all these hearts beating other rhythms

Now they die to be born

And all their mysteries are dying with them

And there's a place called North

And you're gathering there to sing

And I knock three times and beg you

But you will not let me in

But though I love so hard

Now I'm the carrier to this gate

And I lay, what I can, somewhere North of us and

Would you turn me away again?

And would these winds would lift

And they carry me to your door

And I knock three times and tell you

I can't help where I was born

But don't I love enough

Isn't holiness where it forms?

If I take, what I have, to the North

Is there room on your piece of Heaven?

Oh would you turn me away again?