Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Otis and Marlena, artist - Joni Mitchell. Date of issue: 28.10.2012
Song language: English
Otis and Marlena |
| Marlena under Foster Grants |
| She’s undercover from the dawns advance |
| That girl is travel-drained |
| And the neon mercury vapor stained |
| Miami sky |
| It’s red as meat |
| It’s a cheap pink rose |
| Otis in the driver’s seat |
| Watches the street lights fade away |
| On louvered blocks in green sea air |
| In fluorescent fossil yards |
| Slippers are shuffling into folding chairs |
| Freckled hands are shuffling cards |
| They’ve come for fun and sun |
| While Muslims stick up Washington … |
| Otis empties out the trunk |
| On the steps of that celebrated dump |
| Sleazing by the sea |
| Bow down to her royal travesty-- |
| In her ballrooms heads of state-- |
| In her bedrooms rented girls-- |
| Always the grand parades of cellulite |
| Jiggling to her golden pools |
| Through flock and cupid colonnades |
| They jiggle into surgery |
| Hopefully beneath the blade |
| They dream of golden beauty … |
| They’ve come for fun and sun |
| While Muslims stick up Washington … |
| Marlena, white as stretcher sheet |
| Watches it all from her 10th floor balcony |
| Like it’s her opera box |
| All those Pagliacci summer frocks |
| Otis is fiddling with the TV dial |
| All he gets are cartoons and reruns |
| She taps her glass with an emery file |
| Watching three rings in the sun |
| The golden dive, the fatted flake |
| And sizzle in the mink oil |
| It’s all a dream |
| She has awake |
| Checked into Miami Royal |
| Where they’ve come for fun and sun |
| While Muslims hold up Washington … |
| Dream on |
| Dream on |
| Dream on |
| Dream on |
| Dream on |