From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1461 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Thursday, September 27 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1461 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Best last song [LC Stanley ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:21:29 -0500 From: LC Stanley Subject: Re: Best last song Sweetbird Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere with your wings on time You must be laughing Behind our eyes Calendars of our lives Circled with compromise Sweet bird of time and change You must be laughing Up on your feathers laughing Golden in time Cities under the sand Power, ideals and beauty Fading in everyone's hand Give me some time I feel like I'm losing mine Out here on this horizon line With the earth spinning And the sky forever rushing No one knows They can never get that close Guesses at most Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching On Sep 27, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Susan Tierney McNamara wrote: > I was thinking about a thread of what you think is the best last song that > Joni has written ... just weaving back through her albums ... Shine ... Taming > The Tiger ... Turbulent Indigo ... which is the best one, and as I'm listening > to the Fez performance of Magdalene Laundries, I really have to say that this > song is a masterwork, and probably the last best song she has written ... > Agree? Disagree? Debate? :) > > Sue > > Susan Tierney McNamara > email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1461 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------