Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

Joni Mitchell defende que os poemas mais belos não se escrevem e confessou que Urge for Going teria sido a única protest song da sua carreira... contra o inverno. O inverno da vida.

Lyrics:

 

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky then it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
and all the trees are shivering in a naked row.

I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in

I had me a man in summertime he had summer-colored skin
And not another girl in town my darling's heart could win
But when the leaves fell on the ground
Bully winds came around pushed them face down in the snow.

He got the urge for going and I had to let him go
He got the urge for going
When the meadow grass was turning brown
Summertime was falling down and winter was closing in.

Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying and all that lives is gettin' out
See the geese in chevron flight
Flapping and racing on before the snow.

They got the urge for going and they got the wings so they can go
They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in.

I'll ply the fire with kindling now I'll pull the blankets up to my chin
I'll lock the vagrant winter out and I'll bolt my wanderings in
I'd like to call back summertime
Have her stay for just another month or so.

But she's got the urge for going so I guess she'll have to go
She gets the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown
All her empire's falling down and winter's closing in.