The Sire Of Sorrow-Joni Mitchell

[ti:The Sire of Sorrow] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Travelogue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sire of Sorrow - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:00.08]Written by：Vince Mendoza [00:00.17]Let me speak [00:04.69]Let me spit out my bitterness [00:12.25]Born of grief and nights without sleep [00:16.60]And festering flesh [00:25.43]Do you have eyes [00:29.97]Can you see like mankind sees [00:37.50]Why have you soured [00:40.79]And curdled me [00:49.85]Oh you tireless watcher [00:55.59]What have I done to you [01:00.83]That you make everything I dread [01:03.80]And everything I fear [01:07.87]Come true [01:15.67]Once I was blessed [01:20.20]I was a waited like the rain [01:26.72]Like eyes for the blind [01:31.22]Like feet for the lame [01:41.19]Kings heard my words [01:45.52]And they sought out my company [01:51.73]But now the janitors of shadow land [01:57.28]Flick their brooms at me [02:05.14]Oh you tireless watcher [02:11.35]What have I done to you [02:16.58]That you make everything I dread [02:19.66]And everything I fear come true [02:24.32]Man is the sire of sorrow [02:39.08]I've lost all taste for life [02:42.80]I'm all complaints [02:46.12]Tell me why do you starve the faithful [02:50.34]Why do you crucify the saints [02:55.87]And you let the wicked prosper [02:59.20]You let their children [03:01.03]Frisk like deer [03:05.08]My loves are dead or dying [03:07.79]Or they don't come near [03:11.66]We don't despise your chastening [03:15.60]God is correcting you [03:18.07]Oh and look who comes [03:22.89]To counsel my deep distress [03:30.08]These pompous physicians oh [03:34.37]What carelessness [03:35.79]Oh all this ranting all this wind [03:40.07]Filling our ears with trash [03:42.74]Breath taking ignorance [03:47.88]Adding insult to injury [03:53.51]They come blaming and shaming [03:57.53]Evil doer [03:59.50]And shattering me [04:01.08]This vain man wishes to seem wise [04:05.39]Man born of asses [04:07.36]Oh you tireless watcher [04:13.50]What have I done to you [04:18.63]That you make everything I dread [04:21.71]And everything I fear [04:24.82]Come true [04:26.28]We don't despise your chastening [04:41.89]Already on a bed of sighs and screams [04:47.91]And still you torture me with visions [04:52.58]You give me terrifying dreams [04:58.31]Better I was carried [05:01.15]From the womb [05:03.18]Straight to the grave [05:06.96]I see the diggers waiting [05:10.05]They're leaning on their spades [05:12.63]Man is the sire of sorrow [05:16.75]Sure as the sparks ascend [05:19.30]Oh where is hope [05:24.29]While you're wondering [05:26.55]What went wrong [05:32.60]Why give me light [05:34.74]And then this dark [05:36.42]Without a dawn [05:38.41]Evil is sweet in your mouth [05:42.44]Hiding under your tongue [05:45.23]Show your face [05:47.94]What a long fall from grace [05:50.28]Help me understand [05:57.98]What is the reason [06:00.77]For your heavy hand [06:03.77]You're stumbling in shadows [06:07.07]You have no name now [06:08.51]Was it the sins of my youth [06:15.52]What have I done to you [06:20.63]That you make everything I dread [06:23.79]And everything I fear [06:25.77]Come true [06:28.78]Oh your guilt must weigh so greatly [06:34.71]Everything I dread and everything [06:37.65]I fear [06:40.66]Come true [06:41.24]Man is the sire of sorrow [06:45.83]Oh you make everything I dread [06:48.82]And everything I fear [06:52.80]Come true