Coyote (Live)-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Coyote] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Shadows and Light] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Coyote (Live) - Joni Mitchell [00:07.33]Written by：Joni Mitchell [00:14.67]No regrets coyote [00:16.63]We just come from such different sets of circumstance [00:19.53]I'm up all night in the studios [00:21.27]And you're up early on your ranch [00:25.58]You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail [00:28.47]While the sun is ascending [00:29.83]And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel [00:34.57]There's no comprehending [00:37.11]Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes [00:40.85]And the lips you can get [00:43.52]And still feel so alone [00:46.45]And still feel related [00:49.41]Like stations in some relay [00:51.34]You're not a hit and run driver no no [00:55.50]Racing away [00:57.85]You just picked up a hitcher [01:00.51]A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway [01:16.45]We saw a farmhouse burning down [01:18.52]In the middle of nowhere [01:19.72]In the middle of the night [01:21.45]And we rolled right past that tragedy [01:24.74]Till we turned into some road house lights [01:27.56]Where a local band was playing [01:30.71]Locals were up kicking and shaking on the floor [01:34.50]And the next thing I know [01:37.18]That coyote's at my door [01:39.68]He pins me in a corner and he won't take no [01:42.35]He drags me out on the dance floor [01:43.92]And we're dancing close and slow [01:47.59]Now he's got a woman at home [01:50.50]He's got another woman down the hall [01:52.52]He seems to want me anyway [01:55.67]Why'd you have to get so drunk [01:58.37]And lead me on that way [02:00.93]You just picked up a hitcher [02:03.51]A prisoner of the white lines of the freeway [02:18.63]I looked a coyote right in the face [02:20.91]On the road to baljennie near my old home town [02:24.15]He went running thru the whisker wheat [02:27.09]Chasing some prize down [02:30.14]And a hawk was playing with him [02:32.95]Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes [02:35.90]He had those same eyes just like yours [02:39.36]Under your dark glasses [02:41.72]Privately probing the public rooms [02:44.51]And peeking thru keyholes in numbered doors [02:47.86]Where the players lick their wounds [02:49.98]And take their temporary lovers [02:53.44]And their pills and powders to get them thru this passion play [02:57.61]No regrets coyote [03:00.34]I just get off up aways [03:03.35]You just picked up a hitcher [03:06.08]A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway [03:21.40]Coyote's in the coffee shop [03:23.42]He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs [03:26.46]He picks up my scent on his fingers [03:29.93]While he's watching the waitresses' legs [03:32.91]He's too fat from the bay of Fundy [03:35.83]From appaloosas and eagles and tides [03:39.62]And the air conditioned cubicles [03:42.22]And the carbon ribbon rides [03:44.43]Are spelling it out so clear [03:47.25]Either he's going to have to stand and fight [03:50.30]Or take off out of here [03:53.78]I tried to run away myself [03:56.83]To run away and wrestle with my ego [04:03.08]And with this flame [04:05.54]You put here in this Eskimo [04:08.56]In this hitcher [04:10.51]In this prisoner [04:13.32]Of the fine white lines [04:16.26]Of the white lines on the free free way