Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Strange Boy, artist - Joni Mitchell.
Date of issue: 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 |