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Cassandra Wilson
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For the Roses
I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Did you get a round resounding for you way up here
It seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face
Or seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here
I get these notes
On butterflies, lilac sprays
From girls who just have to tell me
They saw you somewhere
In some office sits a poet
And he trembles as he sings
And he asks some guy to circulate his soul around
On your mark red ribbon runner
The caressing rev of motors
Finely tuned like fancy women in thirties evening gowns
Up the charts
Off to the airport-
Your name's in the news
Everything's first class-
And then the lights go up-
And it's just you up there
Getting them to feel like that
Do you remember the days when you used to sit
And make up your tunes for love
And pour your simple sorrow
To the soundhole and your knee
Now you're seen on giant screens
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And at parties for the press
And for people who have slices of you from the company
They toss around your latest golden egg
Speculation-well, who's to know
If the next one in the nest
Will glitter for them so
I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here
The critic
And they introduce some band
But they seem so much confetti looking at them on my TV set
Oh the power and the glory
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers
And the boards
And the nails
I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Chilly now
End of summer no more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water
Like an empty spotlight
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