Edith And The Kingpin (LP Version)

Song Edith And The Kingpin (LP Version)
Artist Joni Mitchell
Album The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Lyrics

[ti:Edith And The Kingpin]
[00:09.16] The big man arrives
[00:13.54] Disco dancers greet him
[00:16.66] Plainclothes cops greet him
[00:19.77] Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening
[00:28.25] Sophomore jive
[00:32.65] From victims of typewriters
[00:35.27] The band sounds like typewriters
[00:39.39] The big man he's not listening
[00:47.35] His eyes hold Edith
[00:49.94] His left hand holds his right
[00:53.01] What does that hand desire
[00:58.10] That he grips it so tight
[01:06.11] Edith in the ring
[01:08.69] The passed-over girls are conferring
[01:13.61] The man with the diamond ring is purring
[01:17.96] All claws for now withdrawn
[01:25.17] One by one they bring
[01:28.49] His renegade stories to her
[01:32.88] His crimes and his glories to her
[01:36.99] In challenge they look on
[01:44.46] Women he has taken grow old too soon
[01:50.70] He tilts their tired faces
[01:57.16] Gently to the spoon
[02:03.67] Edith in his bed
[02:08.28] A plane in the rain is humming
[02:11.37] The wires in the walls are humming
[02:17.03] Some song-some mysterious song
[02:23.50] Bars in her head
[02:27.65] Beating frantic and snowblind
[02:30.19] Romantic and snowblind
[02:34.05] She says-his crime belongs
[02:41.80] Edith and the Kingpin
[02:44.89] Each with charm to sway
[02:48.21] Are staring eye to eye
[02:52.83] They dare not look away
[02:57.98] You know they dare not look away