Joni Mitchell - PEOPLE'S PARTIES lyrics

All the people at this party<br>They've got a lot of style<br>They've got stamps of many countries<br>They've got passport smiles<br>Some are friendly<br>Some are cutting<br>Some are watching it from the wings<br>Some are standing in the centre<br>Giving to get something<br><br>Photo beauty gets attention<br>Then her eye paint's running down<br>She's got a rose in her teeth<br>And a iampshade crown<br>One minute she's so happy<br>Then she's crying on someone's knee<br>Saying laughing and crying<br>You know it's the same release<br><br>I told you when I met you<br>I was crazy<br>Cry for us all beauty<br>Cry for eddie in the corner<br>Thinking he's nobody<br>And jack behind his joker<br>And stone-cold grace behind her fan<br>And me in my frightened silence<br>Thinking I don't understand<br><br>I feel like I'm sleeping<br>Can you wake me<br>You seem to have a broader sensibility<br>I'm just living on nerves and feelings<br>With a weak and a lazy mind<br>And coming to peoples parties<br>Fumbling deaf dumb and blind<br><br>I wish I had more sense ot humor<br>Keeping the sadness at bay<br>Throwing the lightness on these things<br>Laughing it all away<br>Laughing it ali away<br>Laughing it all away