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 m**ms 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 m**ms 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 gla** 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 m**ms hold up washington ... Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on