Jeremy Lyrics - Joni Mitchell

Jeremy sits in the sun 

And he stares at the stripes on the floor 

From the bars on the door 

Thinking of rabbits he kept as a child 

In a chicken wire cage 

He remembers the rage of his father 

The night he made his one call 

The relative stranger who left him to fall 

To the mercy of judges with no shield at all 

Now he sits and he stares at the punishing wall 

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Mary, sweet Mary, it's dark and it's cold 

It's all of the stories you've ever been told 

Keep the jar on the window, keep the lock on the door 

Keep your mind on the man, keep away from the store 

Jeremy picks up the crayon he saved 

And he writes in the dark and he thinks of the park 

And the flowers he gave to the girl with the bells 

He remembers her smile, it was gone at the trial 

Hear the footsteps of night guards patrolling the halls 

There are coughers and talkers who don't sleep at all 

Midst the curse words and worse words that someone had scrawled 

Now he writes her a poem on the punishing wall 

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Jeremy gentle, oh, Jeremy kind 

As you walk with the thieves and the killers 

Believe that our numbers are growing 

The change has to come, put resentment aside 

Don't turn bitter and die