Lyrics - The Only Joy In Town by Mitchell Joni

I want to paint a picture
Botticelli style
Instead of
Venus on a clam
I'd paint this flower child"
You are the air my flowers breathe"
He calls, and the ladies turn around
On the first day of
Spring
I'm looking at the only joy around
He's the only joy around
The only joy
I found
The only joy in town
The
Spanish steps are crowded
Bunch of bodies brooding there
Dead pan side-walk vendors
Hustling vacant stares
Making all the more exceptional
This fool in a flower crown
On the first day of
Spring
I'm looking at the only joy in town
He's the only joy around
The only joy
I found
The only joy in town
The
Botticelli black boy
With the fuchias in his hair
Is breathing in women like oxygen
On the
Spanish stairs
In my youth
I would have followed him
All through this terra-cotta town
On the first day of
Spring
We'd dance and sing
And be the only joy around
We'd be the only joy around
The only joy in town
He's the only joy
I've found
All day
At night these streets are empty
Where does everybody go
Where are the brash and tender rooms
In
Roman candle glow
Where are
Fellini's circus'
La
Dolce
Vita clowns
On the first day of
Spring
I'm looking
At the only joy in town
He's the only joy around
The only joy
I found
The only joy in town© 1988, 1991
Crazy
Crow
Music
BMI

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