The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns Lyrics

Rock
Nov 5, 2007
75
The Hissing of Summer Lawns Music Video

The Hissing of Summer Lawns Lyrics

He bought her a diamond for her throat
He put her in a ranch house on a hill
She could see the valley barbecues
From her window sill
See the blue pools in the squinting sun
Hear the hissing of summer lawns

He put up a barbed wire fence
To keep out the unknown
And on every metal thorn
Just a little blood of his own
She patrols that fence of his
To a Latin drum
And the hissing of summer lawns
Darkness
Wonder makes it easy
Darkness
With a joyful mask
Darkness
Tube's gone, darkness, darkness, darkness
No color no contrast

A diamond dog
Carrying a cup and a cane
Looking through a double glass
Looking at too much pride and too much shame
There's a black fly buzzing
There's a heat wave burning in her master's voice
Hissing summer lawns

He gave her his darkness to regret
And good reason to quit him
He gave her a roomful of Chippendale
That nobody sits in
Still she stays with a love of some kind
It's the lady's choice
The hissing of summer lawns

Writer(s): John Guerin, Joni Mitchell
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Regard Music, BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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