| The Only Joy In Town |
| |
| by Joni Mitchell |
| |
| I want to paint a picture |
| Botticelli * style |
| Instead of Venus on a clam * |
| I'd paint this flower child |
| "You are the air my flowers breathe" |
| He calls and the ladies turn around |
| On the first day of Spring |
| I'm looking at the only joy around |
| |
| He's the only joy around |
| The only joy I found |
| The only joy in town |
| |
| The Spanish steps * are crowded |
| Bunch of bodies brooding there |
| Dead pan side walk vendors |
| Hustling vacant stares |
| Making all the more exceptional |
| This fool in a flower crown |
| On the first day of Spring |
| I'm looking at the only joy in town |
| |
| He's the only joy around |
| The only joy I found |
| The only joy in town |
| |
| The Botticelli black boy |
| With the fuchias in his hair |
| Is breathing in women like oxygen |
| On the Spanish stairs |
| In my youth I would have followed him |
| All through this terra-cotta town |
| On the first day of Spring |
| We'd dance and sing |
| And be the only joy around |
| |
| We'd be the only joy around |
| The only joy in town |
| He's the only joy I've found |
| All day |
| |
| At night these streets are empty |
| Where does everybody go |
| Where are the brash and tender rooms |
| In Roman candle glow |
| Where are Fellini's circus' |
| La Dolce Vita * clowns |
| On the first day of Spring |
| I'm looking |
| At the only joy in town |
| |
| He's the only joy around |
| The only joy I found |
| The only joy in town |
| |
| |
| © 1988, 1991; Crazy Crow Music |