giovedì 10 maggio 2012

Niente dura a lungo...


... ma questo grande respiro è sempre presente, è il vento, è aria, è luce
e certo, il desiderio di volare sugli anni, il cuore che si consola in un canto,
la paura di restare lontani e non vedere, non sentire...
... ma tra le nubi Larry risponde... e Joni sorride ancora...
è uno dei tanti, meravigliosi regali di questo mondo....

Caught in the middle 
Carol, we're middle class 
We're middle aged 
We were wild in the old days 
Birth of rock 'n roll days 
Now your kids are coming up straight 
And my child's a stranger 
I bore her 
But, I could not raise her 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Down at the Chinese Cafe 
We'd be dreaming on our dimes 
We'd be playing- 
"Oh my love, my darling" 
One more time 

Uranium money 
Is booming in the old home town now 
It's putting up sleek concrete 
Tearing the old landmarks down now 
Paving over brave little parks 
Ripping off Indian land again 
How long-how long 
Short sighted business men 
Ah, nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Down at the Chinese Cafe 
We'd be dreaming on our dimes 
We'd be playing- 
"You give your love, so sweetly" 
One more time 

Christmas is sparkling 
Out on Carol's lawn 
This girl of my childhood games 
With kids nearly grown and gone 
Grown so fast 
Like the turn of a page 
We look like our mothers did now 
When we were those kids' age 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Nothing lasts for long- 
Down at the Chinese Cafe 
We'd be dreaming on our dimes 
We'd be playing- 
"Oh my love, my darling 
I've hungered for your touch 
A long lonely time 
And time goes by so slowly 
And time can do so much 
Are you still mine? 
I need your love 
I need your love 
God speed your love to me." 
(Time goes-where does the time go- 
I wonder where the time goes. . .)


Joni Mitchell


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