Joni Mitchell - Otis & Marlena Lyrics
Marlena under foster grantsShes undercover from the dawns advanceThat girl is travel-drainedAnd the neon mercury vapor stainedMiami skyIts red as meatIts a cheap pink roseOtis in the drivers seatWatches the street lights fade awayOn louvered blocks in green sea airIn fluorescent fossil yardsSlippers are shuffling into folding chairsFreckled hands are shuffling cardsTheyve come for fun and sunWhile muslims stick up washington ...Otis empties out the trunkOn the steps of that celebrated dumpSleazing by the seaBow down to her royal travesty--In her ballrooms heads of state--In her bedrooms rented girls--Always the grand parades of celluliteJiggling to her golden poolsThrough flock and cupid colonnadesThey jiggle into surgeryHopefully beneath the bladeThey dream of golden beauty ...Theyve come for fun and sunWhile muslims stick up washington ...Marlena, white as stretcher sheetWatches it all from her 10th floor balconyLike its her opera boxAll those pagliacci summer frocksOtis is fiddling with the tv dialAll he gets are cartoons and rerunsShe taps her glass with an emery fileWatching three rings in the sunThe golden dive, the fatted flakeAnd sizzle in the mink oilIts all a dreamShe has awakeChecked into miami royalWhere theyve come for fun and sunWhile muslims hold up washington ...Dream onDream onDream onDream onDream on
