Joni Mitchell - Cactus Tree lyrics

There's a man who's been out sailing<br>In a decade full of dreams<br>And he takes her to a schooner<br>And he treats her like a queen<br>Bearing beads from california<br>With their amber stones and green<br>He has called her from the harbor<br>He has kissed her with his freedom<br>He has heard her off to starboard<br>In the breaking and the breathing<br>Of the water weeds<br>While she was busy being free<br><br>There's a man who's climbed a mountain<br>And he's calling out her name<br>And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles<br>He calls again<br>He can think her there beside him<br>He can miss her just the same<br>He has missed her in the forest<br>While he showed her all the flowers<br>And the branches sang the chorus<br>As he climbed the scaley towers<br>Of a forest tree<br>While she was somewhere being free<br><br>There's a man who's sent a letter<br>And he's waiting for reply<br>He has asked her of her travels<br>Since the day they said goodbye<br>He writes wish you were beside me<br>We can make it if we try<br>He has seen her at the office<br>With her name on all his papers<br>Thru the sharing of the profits<br>He will find it hard to shake her<br>From his memory<br>And she's so busy being free<br><br>There's a lady in the city<br>And she thinks she loves them all<br>There's the one who's thinking of her<br>There's the one who sometimes calls<br>There's the one who writes her letters<br>With his facts and figures scrawl<br>She has brought them to her senses<br>They have laughed inside her laughter<br>Now she rallies her defenses<br>For she fears that one will ask her<br>For eternity<br>And she's so busy being free<br><br>There's a man who sends her medals<br>He is bleeding from the war<br>There's a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store<br>There's a drummer and a dreamer<br>And you know there may be more<br>She will love them when she sees them<br>They will lose her if they follow<br>And she only means to please them<br>And her heart is full and hollow<br>Like a cactus tree<br>While she's so busy being free