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Joni Mitchell - For The Roses Lyrics

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  • I heard it in the wind last night
  • It sounded like applause
  • Did you get a round resounding for you
  • Way up here
  • It seems like many dim years ago
  • Since I heard that face to face
  • Or seen you face to face
  • Though tonight I can feel you here
  • I get these notes
  • On butterflies and lilac sprays
  • From girls who just have to tell me
  • They saw you somewhere
  • In some office sits a poet
  • And he trembles as he sings
  • And he asks some guy
  • To circulate his soul around
  • On your mark red ribbon runner
  • The caressing rev of motors
  • Finely tuned like fancy women
  • In thirties evening gowns
  • Up the charts
  • Off to the airport-
  • Your names in the news
  • Everythings first class-
  • The lights go down-
  • And its just you up there
  • Getting them to feel like that
  • Remember the days when you used to sit
  • And make up your tunes for love
  • And pour your simple sorrow
  • To the soundhole and your knee
  • And now youre seen
  • On giant screens
  • And at parties for the press
  • And for people who have slices of you
  • From the company
  • They toss around your latest golden egg
  • Speculation-well, whos to know
  • If the next one in the nest
  • Will glitter for them so
  • I guess I seem ungrateful
  • With my teeth sunk in the hand
  • That brings me things
  • I really cant give up just yet
  • Now I sit up here
  • The critic!
  • And they introduce some band
  • But they seem so much confetti
  • Looking at them on my tv set
  • Oh the power and the glory
  • Just when youre getting a taste for worship
  • They start bringing out the hammers
  • And the boards
  • And the nails
  • I heard it in the wind last night
  • It sounded like applause
  • Chilly now
  • End of summer
  • No more shiny hot nights
  • It was just the arbutus rustling
  • And the bumping of the logs
  • And the moon swept down black water
  • Like an empty spotlight

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