
Date of issue: 12.09.2004
Record label: Warner Strategic Marketing
Song language: English
For the Roses |
I heard it in the wind last night |
It sounded like applause |
Did you get a round resounding for you |
Way up here |
It seems like many dim years ago |
Since I heard that face to face |
Or seen you face to face |
Though tonight I can feel you here |
I get these notes |
On butterflies and lilac sprays |
From girls who just have to tell me |
They saw you somewhere |
In some office sits a poet |
And he trembles as he sings |
And he asks some guy |
To circulate his soul around |
On your mark red ribbon runner |
The caressing rev of motors |
Finely tuned like fancy women |
In thirties evening gowns |
Up the charts |
Off to the airport |
Your name’s in the news |
Everything’s first class |
The lights go down |
And it’s just you up there |
Getting them to feel like that |
Remember the days when you used to sit |
And make up your tunes for love |
And pour your simple sorrow |
To the soundhole and your knee |
And now you’re seen |
On giant screens |
And at parties for the press |
And for people who have slices of you |
From the company |
They toss around your latest golden egg |
Speculation well who’s to know |
If the next one in the nest |
Will glitter for them so |
I guess I seem ungrateful |
With my teeth sunk in the hand |
That brings me things |
I really can’t give up just yet |
Now I sit up here the critic |
And they introduce some band |
But they seem so much confetti |
Looking at them on my TV set |
Oh the power and the glory |
Just when you’re getting a taste for worship |
They start bringing out the hammers |
And the boards |
And the nails |
I heard it in the wind last night |
It sounded like applause |
Chilly now |
End of summer |
No more shiny hot nights |
It was just the arbutus rustling |
And the bumping of the logs |
And the moon swept down black water |
Like an empty spotlight |
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Both Sides Now | 2000 |
Got 'Til It's Gone ft. Joni Mitchell, Q-Tip | 1996 |
A Case of You | 2012 |
River | 2012 |
All I Want | 2012 |
Big Yellow Taxi | 2012 |
Carey | 2012 |
Goodbye Blue Sky ft. Joni Mitchell, James Galway | 2010 |
Free Man in Paris | 2012 |
At Last | 2000 |
Help Me | 2012 |
Got 'Til It's Gone (Feat. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell) ft. Q-Tip, Joni Mitchell | 1996 |
Answer Me, My Love | 2000 |
The Last Time I Saw Richard | 2012 |
California | 2012 |
Blue | 2012 |
Little Green | 2012 |
My Old Man | 2012 |
Down to You | 2012 |
This Flight Tonight | 2012 |