The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)-Joni Mitchell

[00:01.98]Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness [00:08.83] [00:13.80]Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh [00:19.82] [00:26.98]You Do have eyes [00:28.11] [00:31.33]Can you see like mankind sees [00:34.50] [00:38.79]Why have you soured and curdled me [00:43.44] [00:50.88]Oh you tireless watcher, what have I done to you [00:59.55] [01:01.88]That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true [01:09.88] [01:17.12]Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain [01:24.42] [01:28.96]Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame [01:33.73] [01:41.92]Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company [01:48.77] [01:51.78]But now the janitors of shadowland their flick brooms at me [02:00.62] [02:05.90]Oh you tireless watcher what have I done to you [02:14.30] [02:17.01]That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true [02:24.34] [02:24.91]Antagonists: man is the sire of sorrow [02:27.51] [02:40.16]I've lost all taste for life [02:41.93] [02:43.06]I'm all complaints [02:44.67] [02:46.36]Tell me why do you starve the faithful [02:50.23] [02:50.85]Why do you crucify the saints [02:54.34] [02:56.17]And you let the wicked prosper [02:58.18] [02:58.75]You let their children frisk like deer [03:02.84] [03:04.47]And my loves are dead or dying, or they don't come near [03:10.37] [03:11.69]We don't despise your chastening [03:13.92] [03:15.62]God is correcting you [03:17.34]Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress [03:25.52] [03:28.54]Oh, these pompous physicians [03:32.00] [03:33.95]What carelessness [03:35.33] [03:35.90]Oh all this ranting all this wind [03:38.53] [03:39.85]Filling our ears with trash [03:42.17] [03:42.69]Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury [03:49.92] [03:53.19]They come blaming and shaming [03:57.28]Evil doer [03:58.29]And shattering me [03:59.37] [04:00.75]This vain man wishes to seem wise [04:04.17] [04:05.11]A man born of asses [04:06.62] [04:07.19]Oh you tireless watcher, what have I done to you [04:15.60] [04:17.80]That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true [04:25.13] [04:25.85]We don't despise your chastening [04:27.91] [04:41.09]Already on a bed of sighs and screams [04:44.80] [04:47.25]And still you torture me with visions [04:50.09] [04:51.97]You give me terrifying dreams [04:55.83] [04:57.46]Better I was carried from the womb to straight the grave [05:03.48] [05:06.06]I see the diggers waiting, they're spadesleaning on their [05:11.11] [05:11.80]Man is the sire of sorrow [05:14.12] [05:15.82]Sure as the sparks ascend [05:17.89] [05:19.34]Where is hope you're while wondering what went wrong [05:26.50] [05:31.16]Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn [05:37.16]Evil is sweet in your mouth [05:39.60] [05:41.18]Hiding under your tongue [05:42.87] [05:44.00]Show your face [05:45.01] [05:46.65]What a long fall from grace [05:48.54] [05:49.48]Help me understand [05:51.56] [05:56.66]What is the reason for your heavy hand [06:00.62] [06:02.27]You're stumbling in shadows [06:04.29] [06:05.98]You have no name now [06:07.21]Was it the sins of my youth [06:09.35] [06:14.63]What have I done to you [06:16.46] [06:18.85]That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true [06:25.52] [06:26.77]Oh your guilt must weigh so greatly [06:30.11] [06:32.95]Everything I dread and everything I fear come true [06:38.55] [06:39.39]Man is the sire of sorrow [06:42.25] [06:44.02]Oh you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true