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Joni Mitchell lyrics : "Shadows And Light"

Every picture has its shadows
And it has some source of light
Blindness, blindness and sight

The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
Blindness, blindness and sight

Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Drawn to all things

Devil of delight
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws
Governing blindness, blindness and sight


Suntans in reservation dining rooms
Pale miners in their lantern rays

Night, night and day
Hostage smile on presidents
Freedom scribbled in the subway

It's like night, night and day
Threatened by all things
God of cruelty

Drawn to all things
God of delight
Mythical god of the everlasting laws

Governing day, day and night

Critics of all expression

Judges in black and white
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards

Or some ideals we fight
For wrong, wrong and right
Threatened by all things

Man of cruelty-mark of Cain
Drawn to all things
Man of delight-born again, born again

Man of the laws, the ever-broken laws
Governing wrong, wrong and right
Governing wrong, wrong and right

Wrong and right

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