I Had A King Lyrics - Song To A Seagull - Joni Mitchell

I had a king in a tenement castle 

Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown 

He's taken the curtains down 

He's swept with the broom of contempt 

And the rooms have an empty ring 

He's cleaned with the tears 

Of an actor who fears for the laughter's sting 

I can't go back there anymore 

You know my keys won't fit the door 

You know my thoughts don't fit the man 

They never can they never can 

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I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley 

Lately he's taken to saying I'm crazy and blind 

He lives in another time 

Ladies in gingham still blush 

While he sings them of wars and wine 

But I in my leather and lace 

I can never become that kind 

I can't go back there anymore 

You know my keys won't fit the door 

You know my thoughts don't fit the man 

They never can they never can 

I had a king in a salt-rusted carriage 

Who carried me off to his country for marriage too soon 

Beware of the power of moons 

There's no one to blame 

No there's no one to name as a traitor here 

The king's on the road 

And the queen's in the grove till the end of the year 

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I can't go back there anymore 

You know my keys won't fit the door 

You know my thoughts don't fit the man 

They never can they never can