Listen to Song To A Seagull (Live) song with lyrics from Joni Mitchell

Song To A Seagull (Live)

Joni Mitchell12 Sep 2014

Song To A Seagull (Live) Lyrics

Fly silly seabird

 

No dreams can possess you

 

No voices can blame you

For sun on your wings

 

My gentle relations

Have names they must call me

 

For loving the freedom

 

Of all flying things

My dreams with the seagulls fly

 

Out of reach out of cry

 

I came to the city

 

And lived like old Crusoe

 

On an island of noise

In a cobblestone sea

 

And the beaches were concrete

And the stars paid a light bill

 

And the blossoms hung false

On their store window trees

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

 

Out of reach out of cry

Out of the city

 

And down to the seaside

 

To sun on my shoulders

And wind in my hair

 

But sandcastles crumble

 

And hunger is human

 

And humans are hungry

For worlds they can't share

My dreams with the seagulls fly

 

Out of reach out of cry

 

I call to a seagull

 

Who dives to the waters

 

And catches his silver-fine

 

Dinner alone

 

Crying where are the footprints

 

That danced on these beaches

And the hands that cast wishes

 

That sunk like a stone

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

 

 

Out of reach Out of cry