Refuge Of The Roads Lyrics - Hejira - Joni Mitchell

I met a friend of spirit 

He drank and womanized 

And I sat before his sanity 

I was holding back from crying 

He saw my complications 

And he mirrored me back simplified 

And we laughed how our perfection 

Would always be denied 

"Heart and humor and humility" 

He said "Will lighten up your heavy load" 

I left him for the refuge of the roads 

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I fell in with some drifters 

Cast upon a beachtown 

Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs 

And I wound up fixing dinner 

For them and Boston Jim 

I well up with affection 

Thinking back down the roads to then 

The nets were overflowing 

In the Gulf of Mexico 

They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads 

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There was spring along the ditches 

There were good times in the cities 

Oh, radiant happiness 

It was all so light and easy 

Till I started analyzing 

And I brought on my old ways 

A thunderhead of judgment was 

Gathering in my gaze 

And it made most people nervous 

They just didn't want to know 

What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads 

I pulled off into a forest 

Crickets clicking in the ferns 

Like a wheel of fortune 

I heard my fate turn, turn turn 

And I went running down a white sand road 

I was running like a white-assed deer 

Running to lose the blues 

To the innocence in here 

These are the clouds of Michelangelo 

Muscular with gods and sungold 

Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads 

In a highway service station 

Over the month of June 

Was a photograph of the earth 

Taken coming back from the moon 

And you couldn't see a city 

On that marbled bowling ball 

Or a forest or a highway 

Or me here least of all 

You couldn't see these cold water restrooms 

Or this baggage overload 

Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads