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Shades of gray coldness from inside
Snowed in without a shovel or plow
Rhetoric on the radio ?Don?t you go outside‰
I shiver in the dark coldness all around
Hide behind my jacket Listen to the cold facts of lies
Because we will we will burn
We will we will burn for the winter
A man pulls off his glove
to take a look at the time
From beneath the watch
sweat starts to flow
A father cries out into the night
as his child slips away
A door shuts as the boy reaches that forbidden room
And the shades of gray
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words and music by Joni Mitchell
I'm going to take you to
My special place
It's a place that you
Like no one else I know
Might appreciate
I don't go there with anyone--but
You're a special case
For my special place
For my secret place
People talk to tell you something
Or to take up space
Guess I'm only talking
To be talking to
Your pretty face
I don't talk much to anyone--but
You're a special case
For my special place
My secret place
I was born and raised
In New York City
I'm just getting used to Colorado--
Oh street
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Island in the sea
Are so much like me
They don't ever change--no emotion, no emotion
Islands on the land
Dry like desert sand
Island in the city
All alone it's such a pity
CHORUS
It's just a masquerade
Just painted laces
When will it change
Never
Islands in the seas
What's come over me
We are both surrounded by the water--empty water
Give me mystery--and the fear it brings
Anything at all to break up the monotony
CHORUS
Islands in the sea
Forever . . . forever
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Holding pieces of shattered dreamsaccepting nothing for what it seemsclosed minds-narrow visionresults are the same-just total divisionit's not a game taking pleasure in painnothing to win and nothing to gainwake up to the big mistakethose ways of life that make you breakMoving beyond-shedding the hatemoving beyong-wiping the slatemoving beyond-eith goals set highmoving beyond-new ways to applyAbuse this norm-slashing at the soulwreckage results of lost controltaught from childhood-words of broken natureresults of no goodI won't give up-I won't cave inthis is human nature-masterplan before lif
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