Joan Baez Rexroth`s Daughter Lyrics

Rexroth`s Daughter Lyrics

Coldest night of the winter 

working up my farewell 

In the middle of everything 

under no particular spell 



Dreaming of the mountains 

where the children learn the stars 

Clouds roll in from Nebraska 

dark chords on a big guitar 



My restlessness is long gone 

standing like an old jack pine 

I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter 

She's a friend of a friend of mine 





Can't believe your hands and mouth 

did all that to me 

And they are so daily naked 

for all the world to see 



That thunderstorm in Michigan 

I never will forget 

We shook right with the thunder 

& with the pounding rain got wet 



Where did you turn when you turned from me 

with your arms across your chest 

Ya,I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter 

saw her in the great northwest 





Would she have said it was the wrong time 

if I had found her then 

I don't ask very much 

a field across the road and a few good friends 



She used to come & see me 

she was always there & gone 

Even the very longest love

do'nt last very long 



She'd stood there in my doorway 

smoothing out her dress 

saying 'life is a thump-ripe melon-

-so sweet and such a mess' 





[I wanted to get to know you 

but you said you were shy 

I would have followed you anywhere 

but hello rolled into goodbye

 

I just stood there watching 

as you walked along the fence 

Beware of them that look at you 

as an experience 



You're back out on the highway 

with your poems of city heat 

I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter 

here on my own side street]

 



Well,The murderer who lived next door 

seemed such a normal guy-- 

You try to swallow what they shove at us 

you run out of tears to cry 



I heard a man speak quietly 

I listened for a while 

He spoke from his heart to my woe 

& then he bowed & smiled 



What is real but compassion 

as we move from birth to death 

Ya,I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter 

& I'm running out of breath 





Spring will come back I know it will

& it'll do its best 

so useful, so endangered 

like a lion or a breast 



I think about my children 

when I look at any child's face 

pray that we will find a way 

to get with all this amazing grace 



It's so cold out there tonight 

stormy I can hardly see 

I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter 

& I guess I always will be.