The Last Time I Saw Richard (Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8/14-17, 1974) (Live)

The Last Time I Saw Richard (Live) - Joni Mitchell (瓊尼·米契兒)

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68

And he told me all romantics

Meet the same fate someday

Cynical and drunk and boring

Someone in some dark cafe

You laugh he said you think you're immune

Go look at your eyes

They're full in moon

You like roses and kisses

And pretty men to tell you

All those pretty lies pretty lies

When you gonna realize

They're only pretty lies

Only pretty lies just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer

And he pushed

Three buttons and the thing began to whirr

And a bar maid came by

In fishnet stockings and a bow tie

And she said "Drink up now

It's gettin' on time to close"

"Richard you haven't really changed" I said

It's just that now you're romanticizing

Some pain that's in your head

You got tombs in your eyes

But the songs you punched are dreaming

Listen they sing of love so sweet

Love so sweet

When you gonna get yourself back on your feet

Oh and love can be so sweet love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater

And he bought her a dishwasher

And a coffee percolator

And he drinks at home now most

Nights with the TV on

And all the house lights left up bright

I'm gonna blow this damn candle out

I don't want Nobody comin' over to my table

I got nothing to talk to anybody about

All good dreamers pass this way some day

Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes

Dark cafes

Only a dark cocoon before

I get my gorgeous wings

And fly away

Only a phase these dark cafe days