Joni Mitchell — The Only Joy in Town

[Verse 1] I want to paint a picture, Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam, I'd paint this flower child You are the air my flowers breathe, he calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring, I'm looking at the only joy around [Chorus] He's the only joy around, Botticelli black boy The only joy I found, Botticelli black boy The only joy in town [Verse 2] The Spanish steps are crowded, bunch of bodies brooding there Deadpan sidewalk vendors hustling vacant stares Making all the more exceptional this fool in a flower crown On the first day of Spring, I'm looking at the only joy in town [Chorus] He's the only joy around, Botticelli black boy The only joy I found, Botticelli black boy The only joy in town, Botticelli black boy Botticelli black boy [Verse 3] The Botticelli black boy with the fuchsias in his hair Is breathing in women like oxygen on the Spanish stairs In my youth I would have followed him all through this terracotta town On the first day of Spring, we'd dance and sing and be the only joy around [Chorus] We'd be the only joy around, Botticelli black boy The only joy in town, Botticelli black boy He's the only joy I've found all day [Verse 4] At night these streets are empty, where does everybody go? Where are the brash and tender rooms in Roman candle glow? Where are Fellini's circus' La Dolce Vita clowns On the first day of Spring, I'm looking at the only joy around [Chorus] The only joy around, Botticelli black boy The only joy I found, Botticelli black boy He's the only joy in town [Outro] Botticelli black boy He is the only joy in town, Botticelli black boy The only joy I found, Botticelli black boy The only joy I found, Botticelli black boy He is the only joy in town, Botticelli black boy