Joni Mitchell

I went to staten island.
To buy myself a mandolin
And I saw the long white dress of love
On a storefront mannequin
Big boat chuggin back with a belly full of cars...
All for something lacy
Some girls going to see that dress
And crave that day like crazy
Little indian kids on a bridge up in canada
They can balance and they can climb
Like their fathers before them
Theyll walk the girders of the manhattan skyline
Shine your light on me miss liberty
Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
Im headed to the church
To play bingo
Fleece me with the gamblers flocks
I can keep my cool at poker
But Im a fool when loves at stake
Because I cant conceal emotion
What Im feelings always written on my face
Theres a gypsy down on bleecker street
I went in to see her as a kind of joke
And she lit a candle for my love luck
And eighteen bucks went up in smoke
Sharon, I left my man
At a north dakota junction
And I came out to the "big apple" here
To face the dreams malfunction
Loves a repetitious danger
Youd think Id be accustomed to
Well, I do accept the changes
At least better than I used to do
A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line