Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Hejira, artist - Joni Mitchell.
Date of issue: 28.10.2012
Song language: English
Hejira |
Im traveling in some vehicle |
Im sitting in some cafe |
A defector from the petty wars |
That shell shock love away |
Theres comfort in melancholy |
When theres no need to explain |
Its just as natural as the weather |
In this moody sky today |
In our possessive coupling |
So much could not be expressed |
So now Im returning to myself |
These things that you and I suppressed |
I see something of myself in everyone |
Just at this moment of the world |
As snow gathers like bolts of lace |
Waltzing on a ballroom girl |
You know it never has been easy |
Whether you do or you do not resign |
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities |
Or stick to some straighter line |
Now heres a man and a woman sitting on a rock |
Theyre either going to thaw out or freeze |
Listen… |
Strains of benny goodman |
Coming thru the snow and the pinewood trees |
Im porous with travel fever |
But you know Im so glad to be on my own |
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger |
Can set up trembling in my bones |
I know — no ones going to show me everything |
We all come and go unknown |
Each so deep and superficial |
Between the forceps and the stone |
Well I looked at the granite markers |
Those tribute to finality — to eternity |
And then I looked at myself here |
Chicken scratching for my immortality |
In the church they light the candles |
And the wax rolls down like tears |
Theres the hope and the hopelessness |
Ive witnessed thirty years |
Were only particles of change I know, I know |
Orbiting around the sun |
But how can I have that point of view |
When Im always bound and tied to someone |
White flags of winter chimneys |
Waving truce against the moon |
In the mirrors of a modern bank |
>from the window of a hotel room |
Im traveling in some vehicle |
Im sitting in some cafe |
A defector from the petty wars |
Until love sucks me back that way |