Strange Boy Lyrics - Mitchell Joni

A strange boy is weaving 

A course of grace and havoc 

On a yellow skateboard 

Thru midday sidewalk traffic 

Just when I think he's foolish and childish 

And I want him to be manly 

I catch my fool and my child 

Needing love and understanding 

What a strange, strange boy 

He still lives with his family 

Even the war and the navy 

couldn't bring him to maturity 

He keeps referring back to school days 

And clinging to his child 

Fidgeting and bullied 

His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild 

He asked me to be patient 

Well I failed 

"Grow up!" I cried 

And as, the smoke was clearing he said 

"Give me one good reason why!" 

What a strange, strange boy 

He sees the cars as sets of waves 

Sequences of mass and space 

He sees the damage in my face 

We got high on travel 

And we got drunk on alcohol 

And on love the strongest poison and medicine of all 

See how that feeling comes and goes 

Like the pull of moon on tides 

Now I am surf rising 

Now parched ribs of sand at his side 

What a strange, strange boy 

I gave him clothes and jewelry 

I gave him my warm body 

I gave him power over me 

A thousand glass eyes were staring 

In a cellar full of antique dolls 

I found an old piano 

And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls 

While the boarders were snoring 

Under crisp white sheets of curfew 

We were newly lovers then 

We were fire in the stiff-blue-haired-house-rules