This Side of the Blue Lyrics

Lyric discussion by billylostin 

Cover art for This Side of the Blue lyrics by Joanna Newsom

And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers, and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words! While across the sky sheet the impossible birds, in a steady, illiterate movement homewards.

Is a reference to post-structural lingustics (and her seeming distaste for it). These links should help with that a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism