收聽Joni Mitchell的Harry's House / Centerpiece (LP版)歌詞歌曲

Harry's House / Centerpiece (LP版)

Joni Mitchell1975年11月1日

Harry's House / Centerpiece (LP版) 歌詞

Harry's House-Centerpiece - Joni Mitchell (瓊尼·米契兒)

Written by:Jon Hendricks/Harry Edison,Joni Mitchell

Heatwaves on the runway

 

As the wheels set down

 

He takes his baggage off the carousel

 

He takes a taxi into town

 

Yellow schools of taxi fishes

 

Jonah in a ticking whale

 

Caught up at the light in the fishnet windows

 

Of Bloomingdale's

 

Watching those high fashion girls

 

Skinny black models with Raveen curls

 

Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes

 

Looking for the chic and the fancy

 

To buy

 

He opens up his suitcase

 

In the continental suite

 

And people twenty stories down

 

Colored currents in the street

 

A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof

Like a dragonfly on a tomb

 

And business men in button downs

 

Press into conference rooms

 

Battalions of paper-minded males

 

Talking commodities and sales

While at home their paper wives

And paper kids

 

Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid

 

Yellow checkers for the kitchen

 

Climbing ivy for the bath

 

She is lost in House and Gardens

 

He's caught up in Chief of Staff

 

He drifts off into the memory

 

Of the way she looked in school

With her body oiled and shining

 

At the public swimming pool

 

The more I'm with you pretty baby

 

The more I feel my love increase

 

I'm building all my dreams around you

 

Our happiness will never cease

 

'Cause nothing's any good without you

 

Baby you're my centerpiece

 

We'll find a house and garden somewhere

 

Along a country road a piece

 

A little cottage on the outskirts

 

Where we can really find release

 

'Cause nothing's any good without you

 

Baby you're my centerpiece

 

* * *

 

Shining hair and shining skin

 

Shining as she reeled him in

 

To tell him like she did today

 

Just what he could do with Harry's House

 

 

And Harry's take home pay