Cover art for Sweet Bird (2022 Remaster) by Joni Mitchell

Sweet Bird (2022 Remaster)

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Sweet Bird (2022 Remaster) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Out on some borderline
Some mark of in-between
I lay down golden in time
And woke up vanishing

[Verse 2]
Sweet bird you are
Briefer than a falling star
All these vain promises on beauty jars
Somewhere with your wings on time you must be laughing

[Verse 3]
Behind our eyes
Calendars of our lives
Circled with compromise
Sweet bird of time and change, you must be laughing
Up on your feathers laughing

[Verse 4]
Golden in time
Cities under the sand
Power, ideals and beauty fading in everyonе's hands

[Verse 5]
Give me some timе
I feel like I’m losing mine
Out here on this horizon line
With the earth spinning and the sky forever rushing
[Verse 6]
No one knows
They can never get that close
Guesses at most
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching

[Outro]
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching

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September 23, 2022
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