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Court & Spark
by Joni Mitchell
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Overall Rating:
3.7138
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
Court & Spark Lyrics
Lyrics
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- Love came to my door
- With a sleeping roll
- And a madman's soul
- He thought for sure I'd seen him
- Dancing up a river in the dark
- Looking for a woman
- To court and spark
- He was playing on the sidewalk
- For passing change
- When something strange happened
- Glory train passed through him
- So he buried the coins he made
- In People's Park
- And went looking for a woman
- To court and spark
- It seemed like he read my mind
- He saw me mistrusting him
- And still acting kind
- He saw how I worried sometimes
- I worry sometimes
- "All the guilty people," he said
- They've all seen the stain-
- On their daily bread
- On their christian names
- I cleared myself
- I sacrificed my blues
- And you could complete me
- I'd complete you
- His eyes were the color of the sand
- And the sea
- And the more he talked to me
- The more he reached me
- But I couldn't let go of L.A.
- City of the fallen angels
- Help me
- I think I'm falling
- In love again
- When I get that crazy feeling, I know
- I'm in trouble again
- I'm in trouble
- 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler
- And a sweet-taIking-ladies man
- And you love your lovin'
- But not like you love your freedom
- Help me
- I think I'm falling
- In love too fast
- It's got me hoping for the future
- And worrying about the past
- 'Cause I've seen some hot hot blazes
- Come down to smoke and ash
- We love our lovin'
- But not like we love our freedom
- Didn't it feel good
- We were sitting there talking
- Or lying there not talking
- Didn't it feel good
- You dance with the lady
- With the hole in her stocking
- Didn't it feel good
- Didn't it feel good
- Help me
- I think I'm falling
- In love with you
- Are you going to let me go there by myself
- That's such a lonely thing to do
- Both of us flirting around
- Flirting and flirting
- Hurting too
- We love our lovin'
- But not like we love our freedom
- "The way I see it," he said
- "You just can't win it...
- Everybody's in it for their own gain
- You can't please 'em all
- There's always somebody calling you down
- I do my best
- And I do good business
- There's a lot of people asking for my time
- They're trying to get ahead
- They're trying to be a good friend of mine
- I was a free man in Paris
- I felt unfettered and alive
- There was nobody calling me up for favors
- And no one's future to decide
- You know I'd go back there tomorrow
- But for the work I've taken on
- Stoking the star maker machinery
- Behind the popular song
- I deal in dreamers
- And telephone screamers
- Lately I wonder what I do it for
- If l had my way
- I'd just walk through those doors
- And wander
- Down the Champs Elysees
- Going cafe to cabaret
- Thinking how I'll feel when I find
- That very good friend of mine
- I was a free man in Paris
- I felt unfettered and alive
- Nobody was calling me up for favors
- No one's future to decide
- You know I'd go back there tomorrow
- But for the work I've taken on
- Stoking the star maker machinery
- Behind the popular song."
- All the people at this party
- They've got a lot of style
- They've got stamps of many countries
- They've got passport smiles
- Some are friendly
- Some are cutting
- Some are watching it from the wings
- Some are standing in the centre
- Giving to get something
- Photo Beauty gets attention
- Then her eye paint's running down
- She's got a rose in her teeth
- And a Iampshade crown
- One minute she's so happy
- Then she's crying on someone's knee
- Saying laughing and crying
- You know it's the same release
- I told you when I met you
- I was crazy
- Cry for us all Beauty
- Cry for Eddie in the corner
- Thinking he's nobody
- And Jack behind his joker
- And stone-cold Grace behind her fan
- And me in my frightened silence
- Thinking I don't understand
- I feel like I'm sleeping
- Can you wake me
- You seem to have a broader sensibility
- I'm just living on nerves and feelings
- With a weak and a lazy mind
- And coming to peoples parties
- Fumbling deaf dumb and blind
- I wish I had more sense ot humor
- Keeping the sadness at bay
- Throwing the lightness on these things
- Laughing it all away
- Laughing it alI away
- Laughing it all away
- I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show
- I've been listening to the sirens and the radio
- He said he'd be over three hours ago
- I've been waiting for his car on the hill
- He makes friends easy
- He's not like me
- I watch for judgement anxiously
- Now where in the city can that boy be
- Waiting for a car
- Climbing
- Climbing
- Climbing the hill
- He's a real good talker--I think he's friend
- Fast tires come screaming around the bend
- But there's still no buzzer
- They roll on...
- And-I'm waiting for his car on the hill
- It always seems so righteous at the start
- When there's so much laughter
- When there's so much spark
- When there's so much sweetness in the dark
- Waiting for a car
- Climbing
- Climbing
- Climbing the hill
- Everything comes and goes
- Marked by lovers and styles of clothes
- Things that you held high
- And told yourself were true
- Lost or changing as the days come down to you
- Down to you
- Constant stranger
- You're a kind person
- You're a cold person too
- It's down to you
- It all comes down to you.
- You go down to the pick up station
- Craving warmth and beauty
- You settle for less than fascination
- A few drinks later you're not so choosy
- When the closing lights strip off the shadows
- On this strange new flesh you've found
- Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf
- You hurry
- To the blackness
- And the blankets
- To lay down an impression
- And your loneliness
- In the morning there are lovers in the street
- They look so high
- You brush against a stranger
- And you both apologize
- Old friends seem indifferent
- You must have brought that on
- Old bonds have broken down
- Love is gone
- Ooh, love is gone
- Written on your spirit this sad song
- Love is gone
- Everything comes and goes
- Pleasure moves on too early
- And trouble leaves too slow
- Just when you're thinking
- You've finally got it made
- Bad news comes knocking
- At your garden gate
- Knocking for you
- Constant stranger
- You're a brute-you're an angel
- You can crawl-you can fly too
- It's down to you
- It all comes down to you
- I'm always running behind the time
- Just like this train
- Shaking into town
- With the brakes complaining
- I used to count lovers like railroad cars
- I counted them on my side
- Lately I don't count on nothing
- I just let things slide
- The station master's shuffling cards
- Boxcars are banging in the yards
- Jealous Iovin'Il make you crazy
- If you can't find your goodness
- 'Cause you lost your heart
- I went looking for a cause
- Or a strong cat without claws
- Or any reason to resume
- And I found this empty seat
- In this crowded waiting room
- (Everybody waiting)
- Old man sleeping on his bags
- Women with that teased up kind of hair
- Kids with the jitters in their legs
- And those wide, wide open stares
- And the kids got cokes and chocolate bars
- There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar
- Jealous lovin'lI make you crazy
- If you can't find your goodness
- 'Cause you've lost your heart
- What are you going to do now
- You've got no one
- To give your love too...
- Well I've got this berth and this roll down blind
- I've got this fold up sink
- And these rocks and these cactus going by
- And a bottle of German wine to drink
- Settle down into the clickety cIack
- With the clouds and the stars to read
- Dreaming of the pleasure I'm going to have
- Watching your hairline recede
- (My vain darling)
- Watching your hair and clouds and stars
- I'm rocking away in a sleeping car
- This jealous lovin's bound to make me
- Crazy
- I can't find my goodness
- I lost my heart
- Oh sour grapes
- Because I lost my heart
- He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
- He was drinking for diversion
- He was thinking for himself
- A little money riding on the Maple Leafs
- Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
- She says...
- "Let me sit down
- You know, drinkin' alone's a shame
- It's a shame, it's a crying shame
- Look at those jokers
- Glued to that damn hockey game
- Hey honey-you've got lots of cash
- Bring us round a bottle
- And we'll have some laughs
- Gin's what I'm drinking
- I was raised on robbery
- I'm a pretty good cook
- I'm sitting on my groceries
- Come up to my kitchen
- I'll show you my best recipe
- I try and I try but I can't save a cent
- I'm up after midnight, cooking
- Trying to make my rent
- I'm rough but I'm pleasin'
- I was raised on robbery
- We had a little money once
- They were pushing through a four Iane highway
- Government gave us three thousand dollars
- You should have seen it fly away
- First he bought a '57 Biscayne
- He put it in the ditch
- He drunk up all the rest
- That son of a bitch
- His blood's bad whiskey
- I was raised on robbery
- You know you ain't bad looking
- I like the way you hold your drinks
- Come home with me honey
- I ain't asking for no full length mink
- Hey, where you going...
- Don't go yet...
- Your glass ain't empty and we just met
- You're mean when your loaded-
- I was raised on robbery"
- Up in a sterilized room
- Where they let you be lazy
- Knowing your attitude's all wrong
- And you got to change
- And that's not easy
- Dragon shining with all values known
- Dazzling you-keeping you from your own
- Where is the lion in you to defy him
- When you're this weak
- And this spacey...
- So what are you going to do about it
- You can't live life and you can't leave it
- Advice and religion-you can't take it
- You can't seem to believe it
- The peacock is afraid to parade
- You're under the thumb of the maid
- You really can't give love in this condition
- Still you know how you need it
- They open and close you
- Then they talk like they know you
- They don't know you
- They're friends and they're foes too
- Trouble child
- Breaking like the waves at Malibu
- So why does it come as such a shock
- To know you really have no one
- Only a river of changing faces
- Looking for an ocean
- They trickle through your leaky plans
- Another dream over the dam
- And you're lying in some room
- Feeling like your right to be human
- Is going over too
- Well some are going to knock you
- And some'll try to clock you
- You know it's really hard
- To talk sense to you
- Trouble child
- Breaking like the waves at Malibu
- My analyst told me
- That I was right out of my head
- The way he described it
- He said I'd be better dead than live
- I didn't listen to his jive
- I knew all along
- That he was all wrong
- And I knew that he thought
- I was crazy but I'm not
- Oh no
- My analyst told me
- That I was right out of my head
- He said I'd need treatment
- But I'm not that easily led
- He said I was the type
- That was most inclined
- When out of his sight
- To be out of my mind
- And he thought I was nuts
- No more ifs or ands or buts
- They say as a child
- I appeared a little bit wild
- With all my crazy ideas
- But I knew what was happening
- I knew I was a genius...
- What's so strange when you know
- That you're a wizard at three
- I knew that this was meant to be
- Now I heard little children
- Were supposed to sleep tight
- That's why I got into the vodka one night
- My parents got frantic
- Didn't know what to do
- But I saw some crazy scenes
- Before I came to
- Now do you think I was crazy
- I may have been only three
- But I was swinging
- They all laugh at angry young men
- They all laugh at Edison
- And also at Einstein
- So why should I feel sorry
- If they just couldn't understand
- The idiomatic logic
- That went on in my head
- I had a brain
- It was insane
- Oh they used to laugh at me
- When I refused to ride
- On all those double decker buses
- All because there was no driver on the top
- My analyst told me
- That I was right out of my head
- But I said dear doctor
- I think that it's you instead
- Because I have got a thing
- That's unique and new
- To prove it I'll have
- The last laugh on you
- 'Cause instead of one head
- I got two
- And you know two heads are better than one.
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