Songs to Aging Children Come
by Joni Mitchell
From the album: Clouds
Duration: 3:10
Lyrics for Songs to Aging Children Come
Through the windless wells of wonder By the throbbing light machine In a tea leaf trance or under Orders from the King and Queen Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one People hurry by so quickly Don't they hear the melodies In the chiming and the clicking And the laughing harmonies? Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one Some come dark and strange like dying Crows and ravens whistling Lines of weeping, strings of crying So much said in listening Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one Does the moon play only silver When it strums the galaxy? Dying roses, will they will their Perfumed rhapsodies to me? Songs to aging children come This is one