Not To Blame Lyrics - Turbulent Indigo - Joni Mitchell

The story hit the news 

from coast to coast 

they said you beat the girl 

you loved the most 

your charitable acts 

seemed out of place 

with the beauty 

with your fist marks on her face 

your buddies all stood by 

they bet their fortunes 

and their fame 

that she was out of line 

and you were not to blame 

Six hundred thousand doctors 

are putting on rubber gloves 

and they're poking 

at the miseries made of love 

they say they're learning 

how to spot 

the battered wives 

among all the women 

they see bleeding through their lives 

i bleed-- 

for your perversity-- 

these red words that make a stain 

on your white-washed claim that 

she was out of line 

and you were not to blame 

I heard your baby say 

when he was only three 

"daddy, let's get some girls 

one for you and one for me." 

his mother had the frailty 

you despise 

and the looks 

you love to drive to suicide 

not one wet eye around 

her lonely little grave 

said, "he was out of line girl 

you were not to blame." 

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