โหลดเพลง mp3 The Last Time I Saw Richard (Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8/14-17/1974) - Joni Mitchell

The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
And he told me all romantics
meet the same fate someday

Cynical and drunk and boring
someone in some dark cafe

You laugh, he said you think you're immune
Go look at your eyes
They're full in moon

You like roses and kisses
and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies

When you gonna realize
they're only pretty lies

Only pretty lies, just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer,
and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whirr

And a bar maid came by
in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said, "Drink up now
it's gettin' on time to close"

"Richard, you haven't really changed", I said
It's just that now you're romanticizing
some pain that's in your head
You got tombs in your eyes,
but the songs you punched are dreaming
Listen, they sing of love so sweet,

love so sweet

When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?

Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater

And he bought her a dishwasher
and a coffee percolator

And he drinks at home now most
nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright

I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes

Only a dark cocoon before
I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away

Only a phase, these dark cafe days