Joni Mitchell - Favorite Colour lyrics
[Joni Mitchell - Favorite Colour lyrics]
I met a child a year ago
Whose eyes would never see
She asked me with a timid smile
"What colour is a tree?"
"In summertime a tree is green
In autumn gold and red
In winter they are frosted white
When all their leaves are shed."
"I know the sky is blue," she said
"And silver is the sand
And apples are the brightest red
What colour is a man?"
"Man is many colours child:
Some are yellow, some are brown
And some are black as sightlessness
Some white as eiderdown."
She took her crayons from a box
And placed them in my glove
And said, "By mixing all of these
Comes my favourite colour - love."
Whose eyes would never see
She asked me with a timid smile
"What colour is a tree?"
"In summertime a tree is green
In autumn gold and red
In winter they are frosted white
When all their leaves are shed."
"I know the sky is blue," she said
"And silver is the sand
And apples are the brightest red
What colour is a man?"
"Man is many colours child:
Some are yellow, some are brown
And some are black as sightlessness
Some white as eiderdown."
She took her crayons from a box
And placed them in my glove
And said, "By mixing all of these
Comes my favourite colour - love."