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 name's in the news 
Everything's first class 
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 for love 
And pour your simple sorrow 
To the soundhole and your knee 
And now you're 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 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 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 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 
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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