lyric from 'night in the city'
joni mitchell
night in the city
i've always loved these lyrics by joni mitchell
Take off take off
Take off your stay-at-home shoes
Break off shake off
Chase off those stay-at-home blues
Stairway stairway
Down to the crowds in the street
i imagined an outside stairway
leading from a second floor apartment
in a sad house to an empty city street
i imagined a rainy night
a lone streetlight
glistening black pavement
nothing original just thoughts to accompany
the lyrics romantic lonely never meant to shake off the blues
in time i met annie she lived in just such a place
we walked up a flight of sodden wooden stairs
to her room night in the city while it rained
when i walked down
for the last time it was just as i imagined
Poetry by one trick pony
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Written on 2017-03-21 at 05:09
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