Don Juan's Reckless Daughter-Joni Mitchell

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:12.36]I'm don juan's reckless daughter [00:14.67]I came out two days on your tail [00:18.15]Those two bald headed days in November [00:20.16]Before the first snowflakes sail [00:26.61]Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery [00:29.70]A split tongue spirit talks noble as a nickel chief [00:35.04]Striking up an old juke box [00:37.98]And he says [00:38.97]Snakes along the railroad tracks [00:41.31]He says eagles in jet trails [00:44.13]He says coils around feathers and talons on scales [00:51.00]Gravel under the belly plates [00:52.74]He says wind in the wings [00:55.95]He says big bird dragging its tail in the dust [00:59.25]Snake kite flying on a string [01:08.46]I come from open prairie [01:10.59]Given some wisdom and a lot of jive [01:14.13]Last night the ghosts of my old ideas [01:16.68]Reran on channel five [01:22.50]And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul [01:25.65]I nearly broke down and cried [01:28.11]But the split tongue spirit laughed at me [01:30.09]He says your serpent cannot be denied [01:34.86]Our serpents love the whisky bars [01:37.05]They love the romance of the crime [01:40.35]But didn't I see a neon sign [01:42.69]Fester on your hotel blind [01:46.29]And a country road come off the wall [01:49.08]And swoop down at the crowd at the bar [01:52.05]And put me at the top of your danger list [01:54.57]Just for being so much like you are [02:03.36]You're a coward against the altitude [02:06.63]You're a coward against the flesh [02:09.66]Coward caught between yes and no [02:12.39]Reckless this time on the line for yes yes yes [02:18.57]Reckless brazen in the play [02:20.88]Of your changing traffic lights [02:23.43]Coward slinking down the hall [02:26.07]To another restless night [02:30.24]As we center behind the eight ball [02:32.61]As we rock between the sheets [02:35.52]As we siphon the colored language [02:38.04]Off the farms and the streets [02:42.39]Here in good old god save america [02:45.15]The home of the brave and the free [02:47.25]We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards [02:50.22]Of some duality [02:52.83]Of restless multiplicity [02:53.82]Oh say can you see [02:59.58]Restless for streets and honky tonks [03:02.34]Restless for home and routine [03:05.34]Restless for country safety and her [03:08.67]Restless for the likes of reckless me [03:14.34]Restless sweeps like fire and rain [03:16.92]Over virgin wilderness [03:19.65]It prowls like hookers and thieves [03:22.20]Through bolt locked tenements [03:26.34]Behind my bolt locked door [03:28.71]The eagle and the serpent are at war in me [03:31.68]The serpent fighting for blind desire [03:33.87]The eagle for clarity [03:37.86]What strange prizes these battles bring [03:40.56]These hectic joys these weary blues [03:43.29]Puffed up and strutting when I think I win [03:45.60]Down and shaken when I think I lose [04:00.27]There are rivets up here in this eagle [04:03.06]There are box cars down there on your snake [04:05.88]And we are twins of spirit [04:08.40]No matter which route home we take [04:10.77]Or what we forsake [04:14.49]We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity [04:17.67]And we'll go down to the beads of guile [04:20.61]There is danger and education [04:23.19]In living out such a reckless life style [04:27.51]I touched you on the central plains [04:29.43]It was plane to train my twin [04:32.64]It was just plane shadow to train shadow [04:34.92]But to me it was skin to skin [04:38.76]The spirit talks in spectrums [04:41.37]He talks to mother earth to father sky [04:44.22]Self indulgence to self denial [04:47.37]Man to woman scales to feathers [04:50.79]You and I eagles in the sky [04:56.94]You and I snakes in the grass [05:04.74]You and I crawl and fly oh you and I by the down oh [05:12.03]You and I you and I you and I you and I [05:37.29]You and I you and I you and I you and I