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Joni Mitchell
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I'm traveling in some vehicle
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I'm sitting in some cafe
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A defector from the petty wars
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That shell shocked love away
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There's comfort in melancholy
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When there's no need to explain
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It's just as natural as the weather
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In this moody sky today
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In our possessive coupling
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So much could not be expressed
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So now I'm returning to myself
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These things that you and I suppressed
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I see something of myself in everyone
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Just at this moment of the world
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As snow gathers like bolts of lace
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Waltzing on a ballroom girl
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You know it never has been easy
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Whether you do or you do not resign
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Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
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Or stick to some straighter line
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Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
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They're either going to thaw out or freeze
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Listen...strains of Benny Goodman
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Coming through' the snow and the pinewood trees
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I'm porous with travel fever
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But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
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Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
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Can set up trembling in my bones
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I know, no one's going to show me everything
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We all come and go unknown
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Each so deep and superficial
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Between the forceps and the stone
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Well I looked at the granite markers
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Those tribute to finality, to eternity
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And then I looked at myself here
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Chicken scratching for my immortality
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In the church they light the candles
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And the wax rolls down like tears
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There's the hope and the hopelessness
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I've witnessed thirty years
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We're only particles of change I know, I know
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Orbiting around the sun
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But how can I have that point of view
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When I'm always bound and tied to someone
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White flags of winter chimneys
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Waving truce against the moon
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In the mirrors of a modern bank
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From the window of a hotel room
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I'm traveling in some vehicle
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I'm sitting in some cafe
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A defector from the petty wars
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Until love sucks me back that way
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