Hejira-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Hejira] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Misses] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hejira - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:12.36]Written by：Joni Mitchell [00:24.73]I'm traveling in some vehicle [00:26.11] [00:29.97]I'm sitting in some cafe [00:31.56] [00:34.51]A defector from the petty wars [00:36.61] [00:38.62]That shell shock love away [00:39.94] [00:46.76]There's comfort in melancholy [00:48.95] [00:52.35]When there's no need to explain [00:54.75] [00:56.33]It's just as natural as the weather [00:59.61] [01:01.75]In this moody sky today [01:02.98] [01:07.08]In our possessive coupling [01:09.26] [01:12.41]So much could not be expressed [01:14.49] [01:18.35]So now I'm returning to myself [01:21.06] [01:23.62]These things that you and I suppressed [01:26.61] [01:29.67]I see something of myself in everyone [01:33.72] [01:35.17]Just at this moment of the world [01:37.09] [01:40.66]As snow gathers like bolts of lace [01:43.44] [01:47.02]Waltzing on a ballroom girl [01:48.65] [02:05.71]You know it never has been easy [02:07.81] [02:11.37]Whether you do or you do not resign [02:14.02] [02:15.78]Whether you travel the breadth of extremities [02:18.08] [02:19.92]Or stick to some straighter line [02:21.91] [02:27.99]Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock [02:30.82] [02:33.61]They're either going to thaw out or freeze [02:36.00] [02:38.04]Listen [02:38.48] [02:39.67]Strains of Benny Goodman [02:41.35] [02:42.18]Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees [02:46.06] [02:51.32]I'm porous with travel fever [02:53.23] [02:55.56]But you know I'm so glad to be on my own [02:58.71] [03:02.15]Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger [03:05.13] [03:07.66]Can set up trembling in my bones [03:10.73] [03:12.74]I know - no one's going to show me everything [03:16.85] [03:19.16]We all come and go unknown [03:20.81] [03:23.70]Each so deep and superficial [03:25.59] [03:29.78]Between the forceps and the stone [03:32.26] [03:49.05]Well I looked at the granite markers [03:51.63] [03:53.94]Those tribute to finality - to eternity [03:58.00] [03:59.34]And then I looked at myself here [04:01.22] [04:02.31]Chicken scratching for my immortality [04:04.86] [04:10.62]In the church they light the candles [04:13.06] [04:15.96]And the wax rolls down like tears [04:18.99] [04:21.23]There's the hope and the hopelessness [04:24.99] [04:26.07]I've witnessed thirty years [04:31.41]We're only particles of change I know I know [04:34.53] [04:36.14]Orbiting around the sun [04:37.56] [04:41.14]But how can I have that point of view [04:43.37] [04:46.33]When I'm always bound and tied to someone [04:49.57] [04:51.91]White flags of winter chimneys [04:54.49] [04:57.36]Waving truce against the moon [05:00.10] [05:03.70]In the mirrors of a modern bank [05:05.46] [05:09.32]>From the window of a hotel room [05:10.88] [05:28.15]I'm traveling in some vehicle [05:30.10] [05:33.59]I'm sitting in some cafe [05:35.20] [05:37.53]A defector from the petty wars [05:39.42] [05:41.60]Until love sucks me back that way