For The Roses Lyrics - Mitchell Joni

I heard it in the wind last night 

It sounded like applause 

Did you get a round resounding for you 

Way up here 

Seems like many dim years ago 

Since I heard that face to face 

So seen you face to face 

Though tonight I can feel you here 

I get these notes 

On butterflies and lilac sprays 

From girls who just have to tell me 

They saw you somewhere 

In some office sits a poet 

And he trembles as he sings 

And he asks some guy 

To circulate his soul around 

On your mark red ribbon runner 

The caressing rev of motors 

Finely tuned like fancy women 

In Thirties evening gowns 

Up the charts 

Off to the airport 

Your name's in the news 

Everything's first class 

The lights go down 

And it's just you up there 

Getting them to feel like that 

Remember the days when you used to sit 

And make up your tunes for love 

And pour your simple sorrow 

To the sound hole and your knee 

And now you're seen 

On giant screens 

And at parties for the press 

And for people who have slices of you 

From the company 

They toss around your latest golden egg 

Speculation-well, who's to know 

If the next one in the nest 

Will glitter for them so 

I guess I seem ungrateful 

With my teeth sunk in the hand 

That brings me things 

I really can't give up just yet 

Now I sit up here 

The critic! 

And they introduce some band 

But they seem so much confetti 

Looking at them on my TV set 

Oh the power and the glory 

Just when you're getting a taste for worship 

They start bringing out the hammers 

And the boards 

And the nails