I want to paint a picture
Botticelli style
Instead of venus on a clam
Id paint this flower child

You are the air my flowers
breathe
He calls, and the ladies turn around
On the first day of spring
Im looking at the only joy around

Hes the only joy around
The only joy I found
The only joy in town

The spanish steps are crowded
Bunch of bodies brooding there
Dead pan side-walk vendors
Hustling vacant stares
Making all the more exceptional
This fool in a flower crown
On the first day of spring
Im looking at the only joy in town

Hes the only joy around
The only joy I found
The only joy in town

The botticelli black boy
With the fuchias in his hair
Is breathing in women like oxygen
On the spanish stairs
In my youth I would have followed him
All through this terra-cotta town
On the first day of spring
Wed dance and sing
And be the only joy around

Wed be the only joy around
The only joy in town
Hes the only joy Ive found
All day

At night these streets are empty
Where does everybody go
Where are the brash and tender rooms
In roman candle glow
Where are fellinis circus
La dolce vita clowns
On the first day of spring
Im looking
At the only joy in town

Hes the only joy around
The only joy I found
The only joy in town

   (Joni Mitchell - Lyrics: The Only Joy In Town)











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"He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has."
  (Friedrich von Schiller)



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