Hejira Lyrics - Hejira - Joni Mitchell

I'm traveling in some vehicle 

i'm sitting in some cafe 

a defector from the petty wars 

that shell shock love away 

there's comfort in melancholy 

when there's no need to explain 

it's just as natural as the weather 

in this moody sky today 

in our possessive coupling 

so much could not be expressed 

so now i'm returning to myself 

these things that you and i suppressed 

i see something of myself in everyone 

just at this moment of the world 

as snow gathers like bolts of lace 

waltzing on a ballroom girl 

You know it never has been easy 

whether you do or you do not resign 

whether you travel the breadth of extremities 

or stick to some straighter line 

now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock 

they're either going to thaw out or freeze 

listen... 

strains of benny goodman 

coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees 

i'm porous with travel fever 

but you know i'm so glad to be on my own 

still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger 

can set up trembling in my bones 

i know - no one's going to show me everything 

we all come and go unknown 

each so deep and superficial 

between the forceps and the stone 

Well i looked at the granite markers 

those tribute to finality - to eternity 

and then i looked at myself here 

chicken scratching for my immortality 

in the church they light the candles 

and the wax rolls down like tears 

there's the hope and the hopelessness 

i've witnessed thirty years 

we're only particles of change i know, i know 

orbiting around the sun 

but how can i have that point of view 

when i'm always bound and tied to someone 

white flags of winter chimneys 

waving truce against the moon 

in the mirrors of a modern bank 

>from the window of a hotel room 

I'm traveling in some vehicle 

i'm sitting in some cafe 

a defector from the petty wars 

until love sucks me back that way 

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