![]() Now I like to drape myself with those sort of things from time to time, but sometimes it makes me feel guilty, and that's what happened this particular morning. "So, he began as a tender of the creatures, not as a superior, he was sort of gentle with them, then one day he woke up and he looked at himself, and said 'Goddamn, they got better plumage, and furs, and everything', so he started to drape himself. Because as soon as you've got a virtue and you KNOW about it, it's gone, forget it.(laughter) What it always kinda meant to me was, that, Man, the Beauty of Man, was his superiority while he still maintained his humility, which was before he *realized* that he had a virtue. You know, a lot of times it's interpreted by evangelists and different clerical people that I've talked to, as a place that existed a long time ago somewhere along the outskirts of the Nile or Jerusalem, something that disappeared, and I'd always thought it was kinda the story of the beginning of knowledge, you know? But I guess I'm side-tripping, running off at the mouth here, but. "I've always been fascinated by the story of Adam & Eve, not because that was when women became a lower class of citizen, you know, I mean, (applause) No, no, the story never meant that to me, I thought that it was a beautiful poem written by a guy with a lot of future projection. So I trekked back up to Canada, bought myself a piece of land, decided to put my money where my mouth was, get myself genuinely back to the garden, or at least give it a try, you know? "All my life I've had kind of a battle going, a running duality between the spiritual & the sensual, you know, and I decided it was time the spiritual won out, at least for a little while.I looked around and my place had gotten kinda Tchoctky'ed up, over-opulent, and I thought that I had strayed off of some kind of path, like I was losing something, I don't know. Joni's introduction to the song at Radio City Music Hall on February 6, 1974: It’s kind of a macabre thing to say, isn’t it, I guess?' It’s called ‘For the Roses’ and it comes from the expression, ‘to run for the roses.’ You know what that’s all about: that’s when you take this horse and, you know, like he comes charging into the finish line and they throw a wreath of flowers around his neck and then one day they take him out and shoot him. Joni's introduction to the song at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1972: Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Just when you're getting a taste for worship ![]() Get the embed code Saurom - Romances from Al-Andalus (Official) Album Lyrics1.Far from the Sea of Roses2.In the Abyss3.The Labyrinth of Secrets4.Wallada the OmeyaSaurom Lyrics provided by it's growning more.īridges that take me from instinct to reasonĪnd how a star helps me go through that hawthorn path.Īny black tears for her in my lonely bed. ![]() it's drowning.Įverlasting sensations, where are they going? ![]() The path that leads my way far from the sea,įar from the sea. Sometimes I like to play inside my mind.ĭifferent lights lead my way depending on my destiny. Next to this sea full of life, wonder and melancholy She cultivates smiles in this oasis of sadness Waters of the marshes feed my verses of sand Impregnate my innocence with roses of salt. ![]()
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