A Strange Boy
Joni Mitchell * Track #4 On Hejira
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A Strange Boy by Joni Mitchell
Performed by
Joni MitchellProduced by
Henry LewyWrited by
Joni MitchellAbout
“A Strange Boy” is the fourth track of 1976’s album Hejira, detailing a relationship Joni Mitchell engaged in with a man with whom she drove to New England in the spring of 1976.
With sharp and poetic imagery, Joni describes this man as seemingly immature and childish, but simultaneously characteriz...
A Strange Boy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A strange boy is weaving
A course of grace and havoc
On a yellow skateboard
Through midday sidewalk traffic
Just when I think he's foolish and childish
And I want him to be manly
I catch my fool and my child
Needing love and understanding
[Chorus 1]
What a strange, strange boy
He still lives with his family
Even the war and the navy
Couldn't bring him to maturity
[Verse 2]
He keeps referring back to school days
And clinging to his child
Fidgeting and bullied
His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild
He asked me to be patient
Well, I failed - "Grow up!" I cried
And as the smoke was clearing
He said, "give me one good reason why"
[Chorus 2]
What a strange, strange boy
He sees the cars as sets of waves
Sequences of mass and space
He sees the damage in my face
[Verse 3]
We got high on travel
And we got drunk on alcohol
And on love
The strongest poison and medicine of all
See how that feeling comes and goes
Like the pull of moon on tides
Now I am surf rising
Now parched ribs of sand at his side
[Chorus 3]
What a strange, strange boy
I gave him clothes and jewelry
I gave him my warm body
I gave him power over me
[Verse 4]
A thousand glass eyes were staring
In a cellar full of antique dolls
I found an old piano
And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls
While the boarders were snoring
Under crisp white sheets of curfew
We were newly lovers then
We were fire in the stiff blue-haired house rules
A Strange Boy Q&A
Who wrote A Strange Boy's ?
A Strange Boy was written by Joni Mitchell.
Who produced A Strange Boy's ?
A Strange Boy was produced by Henry Lewy.