Song for Sharon-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Song For Sharon] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Songs of a Prairie Girl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song for Sharon - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:06.65]Lyrics by：Joni Mitche [00:13.31]Composed by：Joni Mitche [00:19.96]I went to Staten Island Sharon [00:21.96]To buy myself a mandolin [00:28.35]And I saw the long white dress of love [00:31.83]On a storefront mannequin [00:37.37]Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars [00:42.02]All for something lacy [00:45.97]Some girl's going to see that dress [00:47.79]And crave that day like crazy [01:04.83]Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada [01:07.83]They can balance and they can climb [01:13.63]Like their fathers before them [01:15.66]They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline [01:22.73]Shine your light on me Miss Liberty [01:27.19]Because as soon as this ferry boat docks [01:31.30]I'm headed to the church [01:33.46]To play Bingo [01:35.25]Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks [01:50.13]I can keep my cool at poker [01:52.63]But I'm a fool when love's at stake [01:59.19]Because I can't conceal emotion [02:01.85]What I'm feeling's always written on my face [02:08.19]There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street [02:12.58]I went in to see her as a kind of joke [02:16.70]And she lit a candle for my love luck [02:18.78]And eighteen bucks went up in smoke [02:35.61]Sharon I left my man [02:37.95]At a North Dakota junction [02:44.54]And I came out to the "Big Apple" here [02:47.28]To face the dream's malfunction [02:53.77]Love's a repetitious danger [02:58.66]You'd think I'd be accustomed to [03:01.74]Well I do accept the changes [03:06.67]At least better than I used to do [03:30.44]A woman I knew just drowned herself [03:33.39]The well was deep and muddy [03:39.19]She was just shaking off futility [03:42.21]Or punishing somebody [03:48.36]My friends were calling up all day yesterday [03:52.98]All emotions and abstractions [03:56.56]It seems we all live so close to that line [04:00.02]And so far from satisfaction [04:15.58]Dora says "Have children" [04:18.67]Mama and Betsy say "Find yourself a charity [04:24.60]Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into Ecology" [04:33.72]Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes [04:39.12]And lovely landscapes to discover [04:42.61]But all I really want to do right now [04:44.90]Is find another lover [05:01.26]When we were kids in Maidstone Sharon [05:03.41]I went to every wedding in that little town [05:10.23]To see the tears and the kisses [05:13.05]And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown [05:19.39]And walking home on the railroad tracks [05:23.50]Or swinging on the playground swing [05:27.38]Love stimulated my illusions [05:32.07]More than anything [05:37.65]And when I went skating after Golden Reggie [05:40.94]You know it was white lace I was chasing [05:45.45]Chasing dreams [05:49.12]Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans [05:56.06]He showed me first you get the kisses [06:00.78]And then you get the tears [06:04.40]But the ceremony of the bells and lace [06:07.45]Still veils this reckless fool here [06:23.55]Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink [06:26.94]Circling in singles and in pairs [06:32.89]In this vigorous anonymity [06:35.28]A blank face at the window stares and [06:38.76]Stares and stares and stares and stares [06:42.22]And the power of reason [06:45.41]And the flowers of deep feeling [06:49.69]Seem to serve me [06:52.49]Only to deceive me [07:09.29]Sharon you've got a husband [07:11.64]And a family and a farm [07:18.07]I've got the apple of temptation [07:20.71]And a diamond snake around my arm [07:27.18]But you still have your music [07:31.45]And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky [07:35.32]You sing for your friends and your family [07:38.12]I'll walk green pastures by and by