Otis And Marlena Lyrics by Joni Mitchell

Otis And Marlena Lyrics

    Marlena under foster grants
    She's undercover from the dawns advance
    That girl is travel-drained
    And the neon mercury vapor stained
    Miami sky
    It's red as meat
    It's a cheap pink rose
    Otis in the driver's seat
    Watches the street lights fade away
    On louvered blocks in green sea air
    In fluorescent fossil yards
    Slippers are shuffling into folding chairs
    Freckled hands are shuffling cards

    They've come for fun and sun
    While muslims stick up washington ...

    Otis empties out the trunk
    On the steps of that celebrated dump
    Sleazing by the sea
    Bow down to her royal travesty--
    In her ballrooms heads of state--
    In her bedrooms rented girls--
    Always the grand parades of cellulite
    Jiggling to her golden pools
    Through flock and cupid colonnades
    They jiggle into surgery
    Hopefully beneath the blade
    They dream of golden beauty ...

    They've come for fun and sun
    While muslims stick up washington ...

    Marlena, white as stretcher sheet
    Watches it all from her 10th floor balcony
    Like it's her opera box
    All those pagliacci summer frocks
    Otis is fiddling with the tv dial
    All he gets are cartoons and reruns
    She taps her glass with an emery file
    Watching three rings in the sun
    The golden dive, the fatted flake
    And sizzle in the mink oil
    It's all a dream
    She has awake
    Checked into miami royal
    Where they've come for fun and sun
    While muslims hold up washington ...
    Dream on
    Dream on
    Dream on
    Dream on
    Dream on

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