Shades Of Scarlett Conquering Lyrics - Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced - Joni Mitchell

Out of the fire like catholic saints 

Comes scarlett and her deep complaint 

Mimicking tenderness she sees 

In sentimental movies 

A celluloid rider comes to town 

Cinematic lovers sway 

Plantations and sweeping ballroom gowns 

Take her breath away 

Out in the wind in crinolines 

Chasing the ghosts of gable and flynn 

Through stand-in boys and extra players 

Magnolias hopeful in her auburn hair 

She comes from a school of southern charm 

She likes to have things her way 

Any man in the world holding out his arm 

Would soon be made to pay 

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Friends have told her not so proud 

Neighbors trying to sleep and yelling "not so loud" 

Lovers in anger "block of ice" 

Harder and harder just to be nice 

Given in the night to dark dreams 

From the dark things she feels 

She covers her eyes in the x-rated scenes 

Running from the reels 

Beauty and madness to be praised 

'cause it is not easy to be brave 

To walk around in so much need 

To carry the weight of all that greed 

Dressed in stolen clothes she stands 

Cast iron and frail 

With her impossibly gentle hands 

And her blood-red fingernails 

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Out of the fire and still smoldering 

She says "a woman must have everything" 

Shades of scarlett conquering 

She says "a woman must have everything"