For The Roses-Joni Mitchell

[ti:For The Roses] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:怀念] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]For The Roses - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:06.78]Written by：Joni Mitchell [00:13.57]I heard it in the wind last night [00:16.07] [00:17.06]It sounded like applause [00:18.23] [00:19.48]Did you get a round [00:20.70]Resounding for you [00:22.16]Way up here [00:23.12] [00:24.93]It seems like many dim years ago [00:27.10] [00:28.53]Since I heard that face to face [00:30.61]Or seen you face to face [00:33.07]Though tonight I can feel you here [00:35.27] [00:36.78]I get these notes [00:38.16]On butterflies and lilac sprays [00:41.38]From girls who just have to tell me [00:44.59] [00:46.61]They saw you somewhere [00:50.18] [00:57.36]In some office sits a poet [00:59.29] [00:59.93]And he trembles as he sings [01:02.61]And he asks some guy [01:04.23]To circulate his soul around [01:06.91] [01:08.90]On your mark red ribbon runner [01:10.56] [01:12.32]The caressing rev of motors [01:14.19]Finely tuned like fancy women [01:16.77]In thirties evening gowns [01:18.38] [01:20.62]Up the charts [01:21.94]Off to the airport [01:23.40]Your names in the news [01:24.84]Everythings first class [01:26.37] [01:27.49]The lights go down [01:28.69]And it's just you up there [01:30.50] [01:31.98]Getting them to feel like that [01:34.47] [01:40.69]Remember the days [01:41.91]When you used to sit [01:43.59]And make up your tunes for love [01:45.96]And pour your simple sorrow [01:48.82]To the soundhole and your knee [01:51.22] [01:52.39]And now you're seen [01:53.61]On giant screens [01:54.68] [01:56.10]And at parties for the press [01:57.59] [01:58.56]And for people [01:59.35]Who have slices of you [02:00.81]From the company [02:01.75] [02:03.94]They toss around [02:04.77]Your latest golden egg [02:06.21] [02:06.90]Speculation-well [02:07.11] [02:08.36]Who's to know [02:09.39] [02:10.32]If the next one in the nest [02:12.21] [02:13.41]Will glitter for them so [02:18.79] [02:24.37]I guess I seem ungrateful [02:25.91] [02:26.46]With my teeth sunk in the hand [02:29.01] [02:29.54]That brings me things [02:31.62]I really can't give up just yet [02:33.81] [02:36.18]Now I sit up here [02:37.75]The critic [02:38.38] [02:39.14]And they introduce some band [02:40.71] [02:41.43]But they seem so much confetti [02:43.34]Looking at them on my tv set [02:45.39] [02:47.40]Oh the power and the glory [02:49.08] [02:49.64]Just when you're getting a taste [02:51.32]For worship [02:52.12]They start bringing out the hammers [02:55.01] [02:57.41]And the boards [02:58.70]And the nails [02:59.41] [03:07.94]I heard it in the wind last night [03:10.23] [03:11.37]It sounded like applause [03:12.34] [03:13.86]Chilly now [03:14.74]End of summer [03:15.61]No more shiny hot nights [03:17.61] [03:18.90]It was just the arbutus rustling [03:21.05] [03:22.70]And the bumping of the logs [03:23.96] [03:24.71]And the moon [03:25.66]Swept down black water [03:26.98] [03:27.54]Like an empty spotlight