Joni Mitchell – Coyote (Guitar)

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No regrets Coyote, we just come from such different sets of circumstance

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I'm up all night in the studio and you're up early on your ranch

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You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail while the sun is ascending

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And I'll just be, getting home with my reel to reel,

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There's no comprehending

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Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes and the lips

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You can get and still feel so alone, and still feel related

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Like stations in some relay, you're not a

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Hit and run driver no, no,     racing away

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You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

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We saw a farmhouse burning down,

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In the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night

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And we rolled right past that tragedy,

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Till we turned into some roadhouse lights

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Where a local band was playin',

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Locals were up kickin' and shakin' on the floor

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The next thing I know that Coyote's at my door

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He pins me in the corner and he won't take "No!"

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He drags me out on the dance floor and we're, dancin' close and slow

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Now he's got a woman at home, he's got another woman down the hall

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And he seems to want me anyway

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Why'd you have to get so drunk and lead me on that way

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You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

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I looked the Coyote right in the face, on the road to Baljennie

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near my old hometown

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He went runnin' through the whisker wheat, chasin' some prize down

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And a hawk was playin with him,

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Coyote was jumpin' straight up and makin' passes

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He had those same eyes just like yours, under your dark glasses

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Privately probing the public rooms,

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peeking through keyholes in numbered doors

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Where the players lick their wounds and take their temporary lovers

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And their pills and powders to get them through this passion play

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No regrets Coyote,        I just get off up aways

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You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

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Coyote's in the coffee shop, he's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs

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He picks up my scent on his fingers,

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While he's watching the waitresses legs

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He's too far from the Bay of Fundy, from Appaloosas and eagles and tides

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And the air conditioned cubicles and the carbon ribbon rides

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Are spelling it out so clear

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Either he's gonna have to stand and fight or take off out of here

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I tried to run away myself, to run away and wrestle with my ego

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                 And with this flame, you put here in this Eskimo

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In this hitcher, in this prisoner, of the fine white lines

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Of the white lines on the free, free way

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