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Joni Mitchell( Roberta Joan Anderson )
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Don Juan's Reckless Daughter LP Version
I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter I came out two days on your tail Those two bald-headed days in November Before the first snowflakes sail
Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery A split tongue spirit talks Noble as a nickel chief Strikin' up an old juke box
And he says, 'Snakes along the railroad tracks' He says, 'Eagles in jet trails' He says, 'Coils around feathers And talons on scales
Gravel under the belly plates' He says, 'Wind in the wings' He says, 'Big bird draggin' its tail in the dust Snake kite flyin' on a string'
I come from open prairie Given some wisdom and a lot of jive Last night the ghost of my old ideas Reran on channel five
And it howled so spooky for it's eagle soul I nearly broke down and cried But the split tongue spirit laughed at me He says, 'Your serpent cannot be denied'
Our serpents love the whiskey bars They love the romance of the crime But didn't I see a neon sign Fester on your hotel blind
And a country road come off the wall And swoop down on the crowd at the bar And put me at the top of your danger list Just for being so much like you are
You're a coward against the altitude You're a coward against the flesh Coward, caught between yes and no Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes
Reckless brazen in the play Of your changing traffic lights Coward, slinkin' down the hall To another restless night
As we center behind the eight ball As we rock between the sheets As we siphon the colored language Off the farms and the streets
Here in good old, 'God-save-America Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com The home of the brave and the free' We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards Of some duality, of restless multiplicity Oh see, can you see?
Restless for streets and honky tonks Restless for home and routine Restless for country-safety and her Restless for the likes of reckless me
Restless sweeps like fire and rain Over virgin wilderness It prowls like hookers and thieves Through bolt-locked tenements
Behind my bolt-locked door The eagle and the serpent are at war in me The serpent fighting for blind desire The eagle for clarity
What strange prizes these battles bring These hectic joys, these weary blues Puffed up and strutting, when I think I win Down and shaken, when I think I lose
There are rivets up here in this eagle There are box cars down there on your snake And we are twins in spirit No matter which route home we take or what we forsake
We're gonna to come up to the eyes of clarity And we'll go down to the beads of guile There is danger and education In living out such a reckless lifestyle
I touched you on the central plains It was plane to train my twin It was just plane shadow to train shadow But to me, it was skin to skin
The spirit talks in spectrums He talks mother earth to father sky Self indulgence to self denial Man to woman
Scales to feathers, you and I Eagles in the sky, you and I Snakes in the grass, you and I Crawl and fly, you and I
You and I, you and I, you and I By the dawn till the light You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I Oh, you and I
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