The Only Joy In Town-Joni Mitchell

[00:19.24]I want to paint a picture [00:21.24] [00:23.74]Botticelli style [00:24.99] [00:27.93]Instead of Venus on a clam [00:30.11] [00:31.05]I'd paint this flower child [00:32.80] [00:35.86]You are the air my flowers breathe [00:38.86] [00:39.68]He calls and the ladies turn around [00:42.80] [00:44.74]On the first day of spring [00:46.18] [00:47.68]I'm looking at the only joy around [00:51.37] [00:53.22]He's the only joy around [00:55.79] [00:56.47]Botticelli black boy [00:58.16]The only joy I found [00:59.54] [01:00.72]Botticelli black boy [01:02.22]The only joy in town [01:04.16] [01:05.97]The Spanish steps are crowded [01:13.54] [01:16.04]Bunch of bodies brooding there [01:17.66] [01:18.78]Dead pan side-walk vendors [01:22.66] [01:23.41]Hustling vacant stares [01:24.94] [01:25.57]Making all the more exceptional [01:30.87] [01:31.93]This fool in a flower crown [01:34.83] [01:35.77]On the first day of spring [01:38.46] [01:39.84]I'm looking at the only joy in town [01:43.71] [01:45.52]He's the only joy around [01:48.15] [01:48.90]Botticelli black boy [01:50.15]The only joy I found [01:51.59] [01:52.14]Botticelli black boy [01:54.40]The only joy in town [01:56.15] [02:06.40]Botticelli black boy [02:07.40] [02:14.96]Botticelli black boy [02:16.15] [02:21.78]The Botticelli black boy [02:23.77] [02:24.71]With the fuchsias in his hair [02:27.59] [02:29.96]Is breathing in women like oxygen [02:33.59]On the Spanish stairs [02:34.77] [02:37.77]In my youth I would have followed him [02:41.71] [02:42.59]All through this terra-cotta town [02:44.96] [02:46.71]On the first day of spring [02:48.21] [02:49.28]We'd dance and sing [02:51.27]And be the only joy around [02:53.21] [02:54.90]We'd be the only joy around [02:57.28] [02:58.47]Botticelli black boy [02:59.90]The only joy in town [03:01.47] [03:02.09]Botticelli black boy [03:04.09]He's the only joy I've found all day [03:06.97] [03:07.78]At night these streets are empty [03:15.84] [03:18.46]Where does everybody go [03:19.65] [03:22.47]Where are the brash and tender rooms [03:24.84] [03:26.03]In Roman candle glow [03:27.53] [03:29.22]Where are Fellini's circus [03:33.65] [03:34.59]La Dolce Vita clowns [03:36.53] [03:37.41]On the first day of spring [03:40.41] [03:41.09]I'm looking at the only joy in town [03:45.78] [03:47.84]The only joy around [03:49.66] [03:50.84]Botticelli black boy [03:52.28]The only joy I found [03:54.28] [03:55.22]Botticelli black boy [03:55.90]He's the only joy in town [03:57.97] [04:08.35]Botticelli black boy [04:09.28] [04:13.47]He's the only joy in town [04:16.35] [04:17.09]Botticelli black boy [04:18.09] [04:21.97]The only joy I found [04:23.35] [04:25.78]Botticelli black boy [04:26.72] [04:30.59]The only joy around [04:34.60]Botticelli black boy [04:35.60] [04:39.60]He's the only joy in town [04:42.60] [04:43.35]Botticelli black boy [04:44.24] [04:46.86]The only joy in town [04:49.24]Botticelli black boy [04:51.05]The only joy I found [04:53.05]Botticelli black boy