Joni Mitchell Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Lyrics

Cold Blue Steel out of money
One eye for the beat police
Sweet Fire calling
You can't deny me
Now you know what you need
Underneath the jungle gym
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
Looking for Sweet Fire
Shadow of Lady Release
Come with me
I know the way she says
It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first?
Leave someone a letter?
You can come now
Or you can come later?

A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
Edgy-black cracks of the sky
Pin-cushion-p____-
Fix this poor bad dreamer
Money cold shadows reply
p___shops crisscrossed and padlocked
Corridors spit on prayers and pleas
Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
Black soot of Lady Release
Come with me
I know the way she says
It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
Does it really matter
If you come now
Or if you come on later?

Red water in the bathroom sink
Fever and the scum brown bowl
Blue Steel still begging
But it's indistinct
Someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
Concrete concentration camp
Bashing in veins for peace
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
Fall into Lady Release
Come with me I know the way she says
It's down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact somebody first
I mean what does it really matter
You're going to come now
Or you're going to come later