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For The Roses - Joni Mitchell

I heard it in the wind last night

It sounded like applause

Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here

It seems like many dim years ago

Since I heard that face to face

Or seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here

I get these notes

On butterflies and lilac sprays

From girls who just have to tell me

They saw you somewhere

In some office sits a poet

And he trembles as he sings
And he asks some guy
To circulate his soul around

On your mark red ribbon runner

The caressing rev of motors
Finely tuned like fancy women
In thirties evening gowns

Up the charts
Off to the airport-
Your name's in the news
Everything's first class-

The lights go down-
And it's just you up there

Getting them to feel like that

Remember the days when you used to sit

And make up your tunes for love

And pour your simple sorrow
To the sound hole and your knee

And now you're seen
On giant screens

And at parties for the press

And for people who have slices of you
From the company

They toss around your latest golden egg

Speculation-well, who's to know

If the next one in the nest

Will glitter for them so

I guess I seem ungrateful

With my teeth sunk in the hand

That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet

Now I sit up here
The critic!
And they introduce some band
But they seem so much confetti
Looking at them on my TV set

Oh the power and the glory
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers

And the boards

And the nails
I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause

Chilly now
End of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling

And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water
Like an empty spotlight