Joni Mitchell Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Lyrics

Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Lyrics

Cold Blue Steel out of money
One eye for the beat police
Sweet Fire
calling
"You can't deny me
Now you know what you need"
Underneath the
jungle gym
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
Looking for Sweet Fire
Shadow
of Lady Release
"Come with me
I know the way" she says
"It's down,
down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
Leave
someone a letter
You can come now
Or you can come later"

A
wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
Edgy-black cracks of the
sky
"Pin-cushion-prick-
Fix this poor bad dreamer!"
"Money" cold
shadows reply
Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
Corridors spit on
prayers and pleas
Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
Black soot of Lady
Release
"Come with me
I know the way" she says
"It's down, down, down
the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
Does it really
matter
If you come now
Or if you come on later?"

Red water in the
bathroom sink
Fever and the scum brown bowl
Blue Steel still
begging
But it's indistinct
Someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly
Roll
Concrete concentration camp
Bashing in veins for peace
Cold Blue
Steel and Sweet Fire
Fall into Lady Release
"Come with me I know the way"
she says
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact
somebody first
I mean what does it really matter
You're going to come
now
Or you're going to come later"