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Joni Mitchell( Roberta Joan Anderson )
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For The Roses [Orchestra Version]
I heard it in the wind last night 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 lilac sprays and butterflies 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 name's in the news Everything's first class and the lights go down And it's just you up there getting them to feel like that
Remember the days when you used to sit And make up your tunes just for love And pour your simple sorrow To the soundhole and your knee
And now you're seen on giant screens Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com 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, who's 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 can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here, the critic! And I am watchin' some new band But they seem so much confetti Looking at them on my TV set
Oh the power and the glory Just when you're 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 Sounded like applause It's 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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