Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song A Strange Boy , by - Joni Mitchell. Release date: 28.10.2012
Song language: English
A Strange Boy |
| 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 |