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Cactus Tree [Live] (1st Set)
Joni Mitchell
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This is a song called "Cactus Flower"
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There's a man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams
And he takes her to a schooner and he treats her like a queen
Bearing beads from California with their amber stones and green
He has called her from the harbor
He has kissed her with his freedom
He has heard her off to starboard
In the breaking and the breathing of the water weeds
While she was busy being free
There's a man who's climbed a mountain and he's calling out her name
And he hopes her heart can hear ten thousand miles, he calls again
He can think her there beside him, he can miss her just the same
He has missed her in the forest
As he showed her all the flowers
And the branches sang the chorus
As he climbed the scaly towers of a forest tree
While she was somewhere being free
There's a man who's sent a letter and he's waiting for reply
And he asks her of her travels since the day they said goodbye
He writes, "Wish you were beside me, we can make it if we try"
He has seen her at the office
With her name on all his papers
Through the sharing of the profits
He will find it hard to shake her from his memory
And she's so busy being free
There's a lady in the city and she thinks she loves them all
There's the one who's thinking of her
There's the one who sometimes calls
There's the one who writes her letters in his facts and figures scrawl
She has led them to her senses
They have laughed inside her laughter
Now she rallies her defenses
For she fears that one will ask her for eternity
While she's so busy being free
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There's a man who sends her medals, he is bleeding from the war
There's a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store
There's a drummer and a dreamer, and you know there may be more
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She will love them when she sees them
They will lose her if they follow
And she only means to please them
And her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree
While she's so busy being free
Like a cactus tree
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Being free
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