Joni Mitchell

Blue Motel Room

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I've got a blue motel room
With a blue bedspread
I've got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me
When I call you up when I'm down
Here in Savannah it's pouring rain
Palm trees in the porch light like slick black cellophane
Will you still love me
When I call you up when I get back to town
I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on
Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm
Will you tell those girls that you've got German Measles
Honey, tell them you've got germs
I hope you'll be thinking of me
Because I'll be thinking of you
While I'm traveling home alone
Tell those girls that you've got Joni
She's coming back home

I've got road maps
From two dozen states
I've got coast to coast just to contemplate
Will you still love me
When I get back to town
It's funny how these old feelings hang around
You think they're gone
No, no
They just go underground
Will you still love me
When I get back to L.A. town
You and me, we're like America and Russia
We're always keeping score
We're always balancing the power
And that can get to be a cold cold war
We're going to have to hold ourselves a peace talk
In some neutral cafe
You lay down your sneaking round the town, honey
And I'll lay down the highway

I've got a blue motel room
With a blue bedspread
I've got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me
When I get back to town

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ruben On Jun 06, 2002

I've got a blue motel room 
With a blue bedspread 
I've got the blues inside and outside my head 
Will you still love me 
When I call you up when I'm down 
Here in Savannah it's pouring rain 
Palm trees in the porch light like slick black cellophane 
Will you still love me 
When I call you up when I get back to town 
I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on 
Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm 
Will you tell those girls that you've got German Measles 
Honey, tell them you've got germs 
I hope you'll be thinking of me 
Because I'll be thinking of you 
While I'm traveling home alone 
Tell those girls that you've got Joni 
She's coming back home

I've got road maps 
From two dozen states 
I've got coast to coast just to contemplate 
Will you still love me 
When I get back to town 
It's funny how these old feelings hang around 
You think they're gone 
No, no 
They just go underground 
Will you still love me 
When I get back to L.A. town 
You and me, we're like America and Russia 
We're always keeping score 
We're always balancing the power 
And that can get to be a cold cold war 
We're going to have to hold ourselves a peace talk 
In some neutral cafe 
You lay down your sneaking round the town, honey 
And I'll lay down the highway

I've got a blue motel room 
With a blue bedspread 
I've got the blues inside and outside my head 
Will you still love me 
When I get back to town

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2002-06-06 23:04:12

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by Dionysus

12y ago

Wow. So unlike the other songs on the album, music-wise that is. And I love how she compared their relationship to the cold war.

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by princejoni

5y ago

This song belongs in the great American songbook.

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