Joan Baez - Fountain of Sorrow lyrics
[Joan Baez - Fountain of Sorrow lyrics]
I was looking through some photographs
I found inside your drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you
There were one or two I know that you
Would have liked a little more
But they didn't show your
Spirit quite as true
You were turning around to see
Who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise
And at the moment that my
Camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes
Now the things that I remember seem
So distant and so small
Though it hasn't really been that long a time
What I was seeing wasn't
Really happening at all
Although for a while our paths
Did seem to climb
When you see through love's illusions
There lies the danger
And your perfect lover just looks
Like a perfect fool so you go running off in
Search of a perfect stranger
While the loneliness seems to
Spring from your life
Like a fountain from a pool
Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known the hollow sounds of
Your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes but
Now you're all right and it's good to see
Your smiling face tonight
Now for you and me it may not
Be that hard to reach our dreams
But that magic feeling never seems to last
And while the future's there
For anyone to change still you know it seems
It would be easier sometimes
To change the past
I'm just one or two years and
A couple of changes behind you
In my lessons at love's
Pain and heartache school
Where if you feel too free and
You need something to remind you
There's this loneliness springing up
From your life like a fountain from a pool
Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known the hollow sounds of
Your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes
But now you're all right
And it's good to see
Your smiling face tonight
I found inside your drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you
There were one or two I know that you
Would have liked a little more
But they didn't show your
Spirit quite as true
You were turning around to see
Who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise
And at the moment that my
Camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes
Now the things that I remember seem
So distant and so small
Though it hasn't really been that long a time
What I was seeing wasn't
Really happening at all
Although for a while our paths
Did seem to climb
When you see through love's illusions
There lies the danger
And your perfect lover just looks
Like a perfect fool so you go running off in
Search of a perfect stranger
While the loneliness seems to
Spring from your life
Like a fountain from a pool
Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known the hollow sounds of
Your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes but
Now you're all right and it's good to see
Your smiling face tonight
Now for you and me it may not
Be that hard to reach our dreams
But that magic feeling never seems to last
And while the future's there
For anyone to change still you know it seems
It would be easier sometimes
To change the past
I'm just one or two years and
A couple of changes behind you
In my lessons at love's
Pain and heartache school
Where if you feel too free and
You need something to remind you
There's this loneliness springing up
From your life like a fountain from a pool
Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known the hollow sounds of
Your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes
But now you're all right
And it's good to see
Your smiling face tonight