Cara's Castle Lyrics - Joni Mitchell

If you ever come to our town 

On a carousel crusade 

And you're tired of fighting windmills with a nail 

Cross the fence and join the dragons 

Who have never made the grade 

Caras castle and the keepers of a most unholy grail 

Oh Cara 

Queen of the losers, ruler of the weak 

Give the poet what he chooses 

Till he's too dumb to speak 

There's a clock upon the mantle 

But its hands forget the time 

And the windows turn their backs upon the day 

And the people in the shadows 

Could be all lost friends of mine 

Caras courtiers need no light, need no light to lose their way 

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Oh Cara 

Queen of the losers, ruler of the weak 

Give the poet what he chooses 

Till he's too dumb to speak 

From the end to the beginning 

Crippled minds retrace the steps 

From the burial to the birth they do retreat 

Wonderin where and when and why 

Their souls were slaughtered while they slept 

Caras courtiers know no victory, know no victory just defeat 

Oh Cara 

Queen of the losers, ruler of the weak 

Give the poet what he chooses 

Till he's too dumb to speak 

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One by one the battered soldiers 

Go slowly cross the moat 

One by one they seek new castles somewhere else 

With their crutches and the cravens 

And I wonder is there hope 

Is there hope for Caras courtiers and the wars against themselves 

Oh Cara 

Queen of the losers, ruler of the weak 

Give the poet what he chooses 

Till he's too dumb to speak