The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Lyrics - Joni Mitchell

He bought her a diamond for her throat 

He put her in a ranch house on a hill 

She could see the valley barbecues 

From her window sill 

See the blue pools in the squinting sun 

Hear the hissing of summer lawns 

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He put up a barbed wire fence 

To keep out the unknown 

And on every metal thorn 

Just a little blood of his own 

She patrols that fence of his 

To a latin drum 

And the hissing of summer lawns 

Darkness 

Wonder makes it easy 

Darkness 

With a joyful mask 

Darkness 

Tube's gone, darkness, darkness, darkness 

No color no contrast 

Photos 

A diamond dog 

Carrying a cup and a cane 

Looking through a double glass 

Looking at too much pride and too much shame 

There's a black fly buzzing 

There's a heat wave burning in her master's voice 

Hissing summer lawns 

He gave her his darkness to regret 

And good reason to quit him 

He gave her a roomful of Chippendale 

That nobody sits in 

Still she stays with a love of some kind 

It's the lady's choice 

The hissing of summer lawns