The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) (LP Version)

Song The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) (LP Version)
Artist Joni Mitchell
Album Turbulent Indigo

Lyrics

[00:03.48] Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness
[00:15.31] Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh
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[00:28.49] you Do have eyes
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[00:32.83] Can you see like mankind sees
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[00:40.29] Why have you soured and curdled me
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[00:52.38] Oh you tireless watcher! what have i done to you
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[01:03.38] That you make everything i dread and everything i fear come true
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[01:18.63] Once i was blessed; i was awaited like the rain
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[01:30.46] Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame
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[01:43.43] Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company
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[01:53.29] But now the janitors of shadowland their flick brooms at me
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[02:07.41] Oh you tireless watcher what have i done to you
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[02:18.51] That you make everything i dread and everything i fear come true
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[02:26.41] antagonists: man is the sire of sorrow
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[02:41.67] I've lost all taste for life
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[02:44.56] I'm all complaints
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[02:47.86] Tell me why do you starve the faithful
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[02:52.36] Why do you crucify the saints
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[02:57.68] And you let the wicked prosper
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[03:00.25] You let their children frisk like deer
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[03:05.98] And my loves are dead or dying, or they don't come near
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[03:13.19] we don't despise your chastening
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[03:17.13] God is correcting you
[03:18.85] Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress
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[03:30.04] Oh, these pompous physicians
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[03:35.45] What carelessness
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[03:37.41] oh all this ranting all this wind
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[03:41.35] Filling our ears with trash
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[03:44.19] Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury
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[03:54.69] They come blaming and shaming
[03:58.79] evil doer
[03:59.79] And shattering me
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[04:02.25] this vain man wishes to seem wise
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[04:06.61] A man born of asses
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[04:08.70] Oh you tireless watcher! what have i done to you
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[04:19.30] That you make everything i dread and everything i fear come true
[04:26.63]
[04:27.35] we don't despise your chastening
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[04:42.60] Already on a bed of sighs and screams,
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[04:48.76] And still you torture me with visions
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[04:53.48] You give me terrifying dreams
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[04:58.96] Better i was carried from the womb to straight the grave
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[05:07.57] I see the diggers waiting, they're spadesleaning on their
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[05:13.30] man is the sire of sorrow
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[05:17.32] Sure as the sparks ascend
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[05:20.84] Where is hope you're while wondering what went wrong
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[05:32.66] Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn
[05:38.67] evil is sweet in your mouth
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[05:42.68] Hiding under your tongue
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[05:45.51] Show your face
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[05:48.16] what a long fall from grace
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[05:50.99] Help me understand
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[05:58.16] What is the reason for your heavy hand
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[06:03.77] you're stumbling in shadows
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[06:07.49] You have no name now
[06:08.71] Was it the sins of my youth
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[06:16.14] What have i done to you
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[06:20.36] That you make everything i dread and everything i fear come true
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[06:28.28] oh your guilt must weigh so greatly
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[06:34.46] Everything i dread and everything i fear come true
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[06:40.90] man is the sire of sorrow
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[06:45.52] Oh you make everything i dread and everything i fear come true