Lyrics Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire (Live) [2022 Remaster] - Joni Mitchell

Cold blue steel out of money
One eye open for the beat police
Sweet fire calling, you can't deny me
Now you know what you need

Underneath to 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, down, down, down
Down, the dark ladder
Do you wanna contact somebody first?
Leave someone a letter
You can come now or you can come on later
A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
Edgy-black, cracks of the sky
Pin-cushion-prick, fix this poor bad dreamer
"Money" cold shadows reply

Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
Corridors spit on prayers and pleas
Sparks fly up from sweet fire
Shadow of Lady Release

"Come with me, I know the way" she says
It's down, down, down, down, down, down
Down, the dark ladder
Do you wanna contact somebody first
What, does it matter?
'Cause if you don't come now, you know, you
Gonna come on later

Red water in the bathroom sink
Fever and the scum brown bowl
Blue Steel still beggin', but you know what it's indistinct
Someone's hi-fi drumming Jelly Roll

Concrete concentration camp
Bashing in veins for some kind of 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, down, down, down, down
Down, the dark ladder
Do you wanna contact somebody first
What, does it matter?
If you come now
You can come on later

"Come with me, I know the way" she says
It's down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down

Joni, you have more class than Mick Jagger
Richard Nixon, or Gomer Pyle combined
She's got more class than all three of them have