but they seem so much confetti lookin' at 'em on my tv set I can never actually get these words out and be in tune at the same time, so I just end up tongue-tied and tickled with these. When Joni does get them out, in tune of course, the words themselves are so broken up it's as though they're confetti too. and We were newly lovers then We were fire in the stiff-blue-haired-house-rules Similar situation, I can't get the words all out in time, and when Joni sings that hyphenated phrase it sounds as stiff to me as a ruler about to rap someone for rambunctious "bad" behavior. The close contrast of unpredictable uncontrollable fire with such rigidity impresses me every time. Debra Shea, enjoying again thinking about Joni's words and wondering if there are any sets of lines that wouldn't impress me... don't think so at the moment in my Joni's-SO-brilliant haze
