VERSE
Refuge Of The Roads
Joni Mitchell
I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
";Heart and humor and humility";
He said ";Will lighten up your heavy load";
I left him for the refuge of the roads
I fell in with some drifters
Cast upon a beachtown
Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs
And I wound up fixing dinner
For them and Boston Jim
I well up with affection
Thinking back down the roads to then
The nets were overflowing
In the Gulf of Mexico
They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads
There was spring along the ditches
There were good times in the cities
Oh, radiant happiness
It was all so light and easy
Till I started analyzing
And I brought on my old ways
A thunderhead of judgment was
Gathering in my gaze
And it made most people nervous
They just didn't want to know
What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads
I pulled off into a forest
Crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune
I heard my fate turn, turn turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues
To the innocence in here
These are the clouds of Michelangelo
Muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads
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About this Song
Refuge of the Roads by Joni Mitchell is a reflective and introspective song that details a journey both physical and spiritual. The song narrates a road trip, during which Mitchell seeks solace and understanding through her travels. Throughout the song, she encounters a variety of people and experiences, each of which offers her a different perspective on life. The key themes include self-discovery, introspection, and the quest for peace. A particularly poignant moment in the song is when Mitchell describes finding a sense of refuge and clarity in the simple act of moving forward on the road, suggesting that sometimes, the journey itself is the destination.
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