Cactus Tree-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Cactus Tree] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Miles Of Aisle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cactus Tree (Live) - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:13.86]There's a man who's been out sailing [00:16.36]In a decade full of dreams [00:21.67] [00:22.17]And he takes her to a schooner [00:24.61]And he treats her like a queen [00:27.14] [00:27.70]Bearing beads from California [00:30.20]With their amber stones and green [00:32.89] [00:37.08]He has called her from the harbor [00:39.51] [00:41.57]He has kissed her with his freedom [00:43.56] [00:45.31]He has heard her off to starboard [00:48.12] [00:49.44]In the breaking and the breathing [00:51.81]Of the water weeds [00:56.31] [00:58.25]And she is so busy being free [01:01.94] [01:06.25]There's a man who's climbed a mountain [01:08.56]And he's calling out her name [01:10.37] [01:11.31]And he hopes her heart can hear [01:13.37]Three thousand miles he calls again [01:16.06] [01:17.69]He can think her there beside him [01:20.50]He can miss her just the same [01:22.50] [01:26.69]He has missed her in the forest [01:29.56] [01:30.75]While he showed her all the flowers [01:33.25] [01:34.75]And the branches sang the chorus [01:37.94] [01:38.75]As he climbed the scaly towers [01:41.28]Of a forest tree [01:44.08] [01:47.08]While she was somewhere being free [01:52.01] [01:55.52]There's a man who's sent a letter [01:57.21]And he's waiting for reply [01:59.77] [02:00.46]He has asked her of her travels [02:02.83]Since the day they said goodbye [02:05.41] [02:06.04]He writes "Wish you were beside me [02:09.04]We can make it if we try" [02:11.41] [02:16.26]He has seen her at the office [02:18.32] [02:20.07]With her name on all his papers [02:23.32] [02:23.88]Through the sharing of the profits [02:26.57] [02:27.82]He will find it hard to shake her [02:30.76]From his memory [02:33.32] [02:36.75]And she's off somewhere being free [02:41.26] [02:44.57]There's a lady in the city [02:47.01]And she thinks she loves them all [02:49.51]There's the one who's thinking of her [02:52.19]And there's the one who sometimes calls [02:55.07] [02:55.57]There's the one who writes her letters [02:57.86]With his facts and figures scrawl [03:00.55] [03:05.68]She has brought them to her senses [03:07.61] [03:11.80]They have laughed inside her laughter [03:14.55] [03:18.30]Now she rallies her defenses [03:20.62] [03:24.49]For she fears that one will ask her [03:27.37]For eternity [03:28.80] [03:32.37]While she's much too busy being free [03:37.49] [03:40.68]There's a man who sends her medals [03:42.80]He is bleeding from the war [03:45.52]And there's a jouster and a jester [03:47.84]And a man who owns a store [03:50.23] [03:51.29]There's a drummer and a dreamer [03:54.10]And you know there may be more [03:57.04] [04:00.41]She will love them when she sees them [04:03.41] [04:07.23]They will lose her if they follow [04:09.20] [04:10.76]And she only means to please them [04:14.69] [04:17.51]And her heart is full and hollow [04:21.38]Like a cactus tree [04:23.20] [04:26.76]While she's so busy being free