Joni Mitchell - Cactus Tree Lyrics

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There’s a man who’s been out sailing in a decade full of dreams 
And he takes her to a schooner, and he treats her like a queen 
Bearin’ beads from California with their amber stones and green 
He has called her from the harbor 
He has kissed her with his freedom 
He has heard her off to starboard in
 the breakin’ and the breathin’ of the water weeds 
While she was busy bein’ free. 

There’s a man who’s climbed a mountain and he’s calling out her name 
And he hopes her heart can hear 3,000 miles he calls again 
He can think that they’re beside him 
He can miss her just the same 
He has missed her in the forest 
While he showed her all the flowers, and the branches sang the chorus 
As he climbed the scaly towers of a Fortress tree 
While she was somewhere bein’ free. 

There’s a man who sends a letter and he’s waiting for reply 
He has asked her off her travels since the day they said goodbye 
He writes, “Wish you were beside me. We can make it if we try.” 
He has seen her at the office with her name on all his papers 
Through the sharin’ of the profits 
He will find it hard to shake her from his memory 
And she’s so busy bein’ free 

There’s a lady in the city and she thinks she loves them all 
There’s the one who’s thinkin’ of her 
There’s the one who sometimes calls 
There’s the one who sends her letters with his facts and figures strong 
She has brought them to her senses 
They have laughed inside her laughter 
Now she rallies her defenses for she fears that one will ask her for eternity 
And she’s so busy bein’ free. 

There’s a man who sends her medals 
He is bleedin’ from the war 
There’s a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store 
There’s a drummer and a dreamer, and you know there may be more 
She will love them when she sees them 
They will lose her if they follow 
And she only means to please them 
And her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree 
While she’s so busy bein’ free. 

Like a cactus tree 
Bein’ free… 

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lyrics submitted by Ella
lyrics corrected on 06-08-2005