Joni Mitchell – Refuge Of The Roads (Guitar)

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I met a friend of spirit

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He drank and womanized

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And I sat before his sanity

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I was holding back from crying

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He saw my complications

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And he mirrored me back simplified

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And we laughed how our perfection

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Would always be denied

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"Heart and humor and humility"

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He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"

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I left him for the refuge of the roads

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I fell in with some drifters

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Cast upon a beachtown

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Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs

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And I wound up fixing dinner

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For them and Boston Jim

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I well up with affection

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Thinking back down the roads to then

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The nets were overflowing

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In the Gulf of Mexico

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They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads

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There was spring along the ditches

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There were good times in the cities

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Oh radiant happiness

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It was all so light and easy

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Till I started analyzing

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And I brought on my old ways

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A thunderhead of judgment was

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Gathering in my gaze

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And it made most people nervous

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They just didn't want to know

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What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads

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I pulled off into a forest

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Crickets clicking in the ferns

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Like a wheel of fortune

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I heard my fate turn turn turn

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And I went running down a white sand road

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I was running like a white-assed deer

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Running to lose the blues

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To the innocence in here

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These are the clouds of Michelangelo

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Muscular with gods and sungold

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Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads

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In a highway service station

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Over the month of June

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Was a photograph of the earth

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Taken coming back from the moon

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And you couldn't see a city

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On that marbled bowling ball

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Or a forest or a highway

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Or me here least of all

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You couldn't see these cold water restrooms

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Or this baggage overload

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Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads