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The Sire of Sorrow (2002 recording)
Joni Mitchell
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Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness
Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh
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Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees?
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Why have you soured and curdled me?
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Oh, you tireless watcher
What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true
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Once I was blessed, I was awaited like the rain
Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame
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Kings heard my words and they sought out my company
But now the janitors of shadowland flick their brooms at me
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Oh, you tireless watcher
What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true
(Man is the sire of sorrow)
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I've lost all taste for life, I'm all complaints
Tell me, why do you starve the faithful?
Why do you crucify the saints?
And you let the wicked prosper, you let the children frisk like deer
And my loves are dead or dying, or they don't come near
(We don't despise your chastening
God is correcting you)
Oh, and look who comes to counsel my deep distress
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These pompous physicians, ha, what carelessness
(All this ranting, all this wind
Filling our ears with trash)
Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury
They come blaming and shaming me (Evil doer)
And shattering me (This vain man wishes
To see why
A man born to ask this)
Oh, you tireless watcher
What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true
(We don't despise your chastening)
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Already one of sighs and screams
And still you torture me with visions, you give me terrifying dreams
Better I was carried from the womb straight to the grave
I see the diggers waiting, they're leaning on their spades
(Man is the sire of sorrow
Sure as the sparks ascend)
Oh, where is hope while you're wondering what went wrong?
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Why give me light and then there's dark without a dawn?
(Evil is sweet in your mouth
Hiding under your tongue)
Show your face (What a long fall from grace)
Help me understand
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What is the reason for your heavy hand?
(You're stumbling in shadow
You have no name or home)
Was it the sins of my youth?
What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true
(Oh, your guilt must weigh so gravely)
Everything I dread and everything I fear come true
(Man is the sire of sorrow)
Why you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?
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