Joni Mitchell — The Silky Veils of Ardor

[Verse 1] I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through all these highs and lows I heard there was no sickness and no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters flow [Verse 2] Come all you fair and tender school girls Be careful now when you court young men They are like the stars on a summer morning They sparkle up the night and they're gone again Daybreak, gone again [Verse 3] If I'd only seen through the silky veils of ardor What a killing crime this love can be I would have locked up my heart in a golden sheath of armor And kept its crazy beating under strictest secrecy High security [Verse 4] I wish I had the wings of Noah's pretty little white dove So I could fly this raging river to reach the one I love But I have no wings and the water is so wide We'll have to row a little harder, it's just in dreams we fly In my dreams we fly