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Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Lyrics

Artist: Joni Mitchell
Album: For The Roses

Cold Blue Steel out of money
One eye for the beat police
Sweet Fire calling
"You can't deny me
Now you know what you need"
Underneath the jungle gym
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
Looking for Sweet Fire
Shadow of Lady Release
"Come with me
I know the way" she says
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
Leave someone a letter
You can come now
Or you can come later"

A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
Edgy-black cracks of the sky
"Pin-cushion-prick-
Fix this poor bad dreamer!"
"Money" cold shadows reply
Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
Corridors spit on prayers and pleas
Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
Black soot of Lady Release
"Come with me
I know the way" she says
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
Does it really matter
If you come now
Or if you come on later?"

Red water in the bathroom sink
Fever and the scum brown bowl
Blue Steel still begging
But it's indistinct
Someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
Concrete concentration camp
Bashing in veins for peace
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
Fall into Lady Release
"Come with me I know the way" she says
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
I mean what does it really matter
You're going to come now
Or you're going to come later"

Comments/Interpretations

by queen patty on 12/16/2008 7:36am
awesome melody
awesome guitar work
awesome lyric
this is poetry.

by Cowy on 5/22/2009 5:04am
My favourite song of the album... It just makes me all dreamy... I love it! The melody is... Superb.

(...) Come with me, I know the way (...)

by Stan on 9/19/2009 4:30pm
This artist, Joni, is the most talented songstress I have ever heard give the polytonal harmonies to supply the perfect palette of celebration of heroin addiction and the life it requires, but gives. Haunting, but truth in content and damage.
For one who worked with addicts for forty years, I can say no other person, including Billie Holdiay has done the blues more grace for understanding the addict.