You take me down a corridor where dreams turn into television.
The colors of your potions won’t replace the colors of my vision.
You ask me do I hear voices.  I hear voices like the sea.
You want me to take your Trilafon*… I drink my asylum tea.
The color’s red in my museum.  It won’t fade in your cure for me.

Lady Macbeth* paces at night while I rock my mind in my hands.
Like a strange lemon sky her eyes dazed and so bright.  At dawn
I breathe in the crushed violet light.  The guards keep us tight.
Who murders whose sight in this kingdom of sand?  You do
what the  King’s dogs command.

The girl says, “Hey kid, hey kid what you got going?  What you done did?
There’s a mad din in my mind today and I’d just as soon fight as sock
it away.”  I say, “Hey kid, hey kid, what planet, what source?
There’s a mad dwarf in my mind today like a bright star in a shot horse.”

Amelia my plane went down.  It crashed into the sea.  We died
in that American movie.  We were dead and we were able to breathe.
Call the President for Lady Macbeth.  She’s lost her hands and Shakespeare’s
away.  Look at her pretty pink rollers, make her cross her knees.
You are what they see and they see what they please.

Joni I’m stranded here.. They locked the door on me.  My friends
bring their logic.  They think the air’s still free.  My baby can’t visit cause
I can’t take the heat.  The heat got me into this cooler.  Now give me back
the street.  Give me back the avenues and the rogues of Avenue B.
I need to shine my crystal ball, don’t take this picture of me.

The girl says: “Hey kid, hey kid what you got going?  What you done did?
There’s a mad din in my mind today and I’d just as soon fight as sock
it away.”  I say, “Hey kid, hey kid, what planet, what source?
There’s a mad dwarf in my mind today like a bright star in a shot horse.”

Mercedes they took our mustangs away,  now we’re going to have to play
the game their damn way.  But you know the joke’s on you.  Cause when
we get our of here that old sky’s still gonna be blue. And we’ll swim in it too.


* Trilafon is an anti-psychotic drug
* Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s murderous wife in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
* Joni Mitchell with reference to her song “Amelia” about Amelia Earhart
* Joni Mitchell herself