A Strange Boy-Joni Mitchell

[00:18.247]A strange boy is weaving [00:22.400]A course of grace and havoc [00:26.214]On a yellow skateboard [00:29.009]Through midday sidewalk traffic [00:35.827]Just when I think he's foolish and childish [00:40.138]And I want him to be manly [00:43.847]I catch my fool and my child [00:46.929]Needing love and understanding [00:53.434]What a strange, strange boy [00:57.352]He still lives with his family [01:01.741]Even the war and the navy [01:06.025]Couldn't bring him to maturity [01:10.413]He keeps referring back to school days [01:14.828]And clinging to his child [01:18.929]Fidgeting and bullied [01:21.359]His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild [01:27.968]He asked me to be patient [01:31.155]Well I failed [01:32.748]"Grow up, " I cried [01:36.040]And as, the smoke was clearing, he said [01:39.357]"Give me one good reason why" [01:45.548]What a strange, strange boy [01:49.728]He sees the cars as sets of waves [01:54.273]Sequences of mass and space [01:58.453]He sees the damage in my face [02:02.867]We got high on travel [02:07.125]And we got drunk on alcohol [02:10.573]And on love, the strongest poison and medicine of all [02:20.500]See how that feeling comes and goes [02:24.523]Like the pull of moon on tides [02:28.676]Now I am surf rising [02:31.132]Now parched ribs of sand at his side [02:37.898]What a strange, strange, boy [02:41.920]I gave him clothes and jewelry [02:46.544]I gave him my warm body [02:50.593]I gave him power over me [02:54.982]A thousand glass eyes were staring [02:59.344]In a cellar full of antique dolls [03:03.210]I found an old piano [03:05.875]And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls [03:12.249]While the boarders were snoring [03:15.540]Under crisp white sheets of curfew [03:20.347]We were newly lovers then [03:22.462]We were fire in the stiff, blue-haired house rules