Time Rag-Joan Baez

[ti:Time Rag] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Blowin' Away] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Time Rag - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:17.82]Ripping along towards middle age [00:19.76]And my music career kind of missed a page [00:21.87]Record sales began to drop [00:23.90]The management all began to hop [00:26.05]Not worry they said you'll see [00:28.11]What you need is some fresh publicity [00:30.16]Just give us a nod and we'll all leap [00:32.21]Towards putting you back at the top of the heap [00:38.60]I said Fine I'll give it a whack [00:40.63]I hung up the phone and I turned my back [00:42.71]Began daydreaming I was somebody else [00:44.60]When the phone jumped over from the wall to the shelf [00:46.82]We just had a break this is really fine [00:48.75]We can make the January issue of TIME [00:50.44] [00:51.11]If you'll give us Monday a week from today [00:53.10]From two to four now what do you say [00:56.72]I said TIME TIME mag mag [01:01.39]You got me on the rag rag [01:05.13]Take your insults about the queen [01:09.49]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [01:21.91]But I scribbled it down on the wall calendar [01:23.56] [01:24.22]And wondered about my interviewer [01:26.37]Maybe he'd be just a real nice guy [01:28.38]Bright and sympathetic with a roving eye [01:30.34]We'd forget all about the assignment due [01:32.50]Formalities photos and the interview [01:34.54]We'd hop on into his big rent-a-car [01:36.57]Go for a lovely drive not far maybe France [01:42.79]As the big day approached it slipped my mind [01:44.87]Till my secretary showed up at the house to remind [01:46.95]Me to switch into gear for the big coup de gras [01:49.24]The meeting with the man from the media [01:51.13]I swept the driveway and polished the phone [01:52.80] [01:53.36]Put on a Kenzo knit in two-tone [01:55.39]Fluffed the pillows in the burgundy chair [01:57.37]Made up my eyes and brushed my hair all in that order [02:03.61]When he called to say he was three hours late [02:05.70]My cheerful facade began to disintegrate [02:07.60]The photographer'd be even later still [02:09.68]She was hopelessly lost in the nearby hills [02:12.00]He arrived not exactly the man of my dreams [02:14.00]Not bad for a rep from the Timese machine [02:16.25]Asked me a wandering question or three [02:18.16]And I thought he was actually listening to me [02:21.99]And I said TIME TIME mag mag [02:26.44]You got me on the rag rag [02:30.23]Take your insults about the queen [02:34.72]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [02:41.45] [02:47.49]Curious about his interest [02:49.37]I babbled my way through the worldwide list [02:51.05] [02:51.58]Ireland Chile and the African states [02:53.48]Poetry politics and how they relate [02:55.56]Motherhood music and Moog synthesizers [02:57.60]Political prisoners and Commie sympathizers [02:59.79]Hetero homo and bisexuality [03:01.81]Where they all stand in the nineteen-seventies [03:03.44] [03:08.00]Then suddenly it stopped and he started to lobby [03:10.02]Said Tell me some inside stuff about Bobby [03:12.02]Bobby who I smiled and said [03:13.93]And the TIME man's face was laced with red [03:16.19]I know you guys used to know each other [03:18.28]I know you refer to him as being your brother [03:20.33]And I know that you know where he's coming from [03:22.29]I said You know alot for being so Goddamned dumb [03:28.24]And I said TIME TIME mag mag [03:32.89]You got me on the rag rag [03:36.37]Take your insults about the queen [03:40.85]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [03:46.94] [03:49.38]Well I never gave him quite what he came for [03:51.32]The inside story and it's really a shame [03:53.35]For I never made the January issue of TIME [03:55.44]And just before I run out of words that rhyme [03:57.49]I really should tell you that deep in my heart [03:59.34]I don't give a damn where I stand on the charts [04:01.70]Not as long as the sun sinks into the west [04:04.03]And that's going to be a pretty serious test of time [04:08.28]TIME TIME mag mag [04:12.07]You got me on the rag rag [04:16.06]Take your insults about the queen [04:20.43]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [04:28.41]And I said TIME TIME mag mag [04:33.10]You got me on the rag rag [04:35.57] [04:36.60]Take your insults about the queen [04:41.09]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [04:46.54] [04:58.09]Ok follow this is rap