Joni Mitchell - Cara's Castle Lyrics
If you ever come to our townOn a carousel crusadeAnd youre tired of fighting windmills with a nailCross the fence and join the dragonsWho have never made the gradeCaras castle and the keepers of a most unholy grail.Oh cara, queen of the losers, ruler of the weakGive the poet what he chooses till hes too dumb to speakTheres a clock upon the mantleBut its hands forget the timeAnd the windows turn their backs upon the dayAnd the people in the shadowsCould be all lost friends of mineCaras courtiers need no light c need no light to lose their wayOh cara, queen of the losers, ruler of the weakGive the poet what he chooses till hes too dumb to speakFrom the end to the beginningCrippled minds retrace the stepsFrom the burial to the birth they do retreatWonderin where and when and whyTheir souls were slaughtered while they sleptCaras courtiers know no victory c know no victory just defeatOh cara, queen of the losers, ruler of the weakGive the poet what he chooses till hes too dumb to speakOne by one the battered soldiersGo slowly cross the moatOne by one they seek new castles somewhere elseWith their crutches and the cravensAnd I wonder is there hopeIs there hope for caras courtiers c and the wars against themselvesOh cara, queen of the losers, ruler of the weakGive the poet what he chooses till hes too dumb to speak
