Urge For Going-A Bird That Whistles

[ti:Urge For Going] [ar:A Bird That Whistles] [al:Songs Of Joni Mitchell] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Urge For Going - A Bird That Whistles [00:15.70]I awoke today and found [00:18.16] [00:18.68]The frost perched on the town [00:21.54] [00:22.70]It hovered in a frozen sky [00:26.54] [00:27.34]Then it gobbled summer down [00:29.67] [00:30.83]When the sun turns traitor cold [00:34.55] [00:35.21]All the trees are shivering [00:37.73] [00:38.32]In a naked row [00:41.03] [00:42.29]I get the urge for going [00:45.65] [00:46.51]But I never seem to go [00:50.90] [00:52.54]I get the urge for going [00:55.65]When the meadow grass is turning brown and [01:00.73]Summertime is falling down [01:03.52] [01:04.24]And winter is closing in [01:07.30] [01:09.68]I had me a man in summertime [01:13.61] [01:14.67]He had summer colored skin [01:17.26] [01:18.11]Not another girl in town [01:21.75] [01:22.44]My darling's heart could win [01:25.01] [01:25.61]But when the leaves fell on the ground [01:29.26] [01:30.43]Bully winds came around [01:32.45]Pushed them face down in the snow [01:36.38] [01:37.22]He got the urge for going [01:40.66] [01:41.53]So I had to let him go [01:45.36] [01:47.37]He got the urge for going [01:50.25] [01:50.77]When the meadow grass is turning brown and [01:55.75]Summertime is falling down [01:59.27]And winter is closing in [02:01.95] [02:04.83]Now the warriors of winter [02:08.58]They gave a cold triumphant shout [02:12.11] [02:13.01]And all that stays is dying [02:15.89] [02:16.59]All that lives is getting out [02:20.05] [02:21.03]See the geese in chevron flight [02:24.75] [02:25.35]Flapping and racing on before the snow [02:31.07] [02:32.00]They've got the urge for going [02:35.36] [02:36.25]And they've got the wings to go [02:40.23] [02:42.19]They get the urge for going [02:45.61]When the meadow grass is turning brown and [02:50.52]Summertime is falling down [02:53.77]And winter is closing in [02:56.41] [03:14.02]So I play the fire with kindling now [03:17.83]I pull the blankets up to my chin [03:21.52] [03:22.55]I lock the vagrant winter out [03:25.74]And I'll bolt my wanderings in [03:28.62] [03:29.68]I'd like to call back summertime [03:33.16] [03:34.30]Have her stay for just another month or so [03:39.88] [03:41.01]But she's got the urge for going [03:44.27] [03:45.23]So I guess she'll have to go [03:48.66] [03:51.24]She gets the urge for going [03:54.48]When the meadow grass is turning brown and [03:59.37]All her empires are falling down [04:03.00]And winter's closing in [04:05.80] [04:08.21]And I get the urge for going [04:12.09]When the meadow grass is turning brown and [04:16.87]Summertime is falling down