Lirik dan Chord Lagu Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire – Joni Mitchell

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1972 melalui label rekaman Asylum Records.

“Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk For the Roses.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire” dari Joni Mitchell:

[Intro]
G C

[Verse 1]
C
Cold Blue Steel out of money
C
One eye for the beat police
G7
Sweet Fire calling, "You can't deny me
G7
Now you know what you need"

[Verse 2]
C
Underneath the jungle gym
C
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
G7                     D
Looking for Sweet Fire
                  C
Shadow of Lady Release

[Chorus 1]
C
"Come with me, I know the way," she says
            D      Bb    F                             G C
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, leave someone a letter?
                      G
You can come now or you can come later"

[Verse 3]
C
A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
C
Edgy black cracks of the sky
G
"Pin-cushion-prick, fix this poor bad dreamer!"
G
"Money" cold shadows reply

[Verse 4]
C
Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
C
Corridors, spit-on prayers and pleas
G                                D
Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
C
Black soot of Lady Release

[Chorus 2]
C
"Come with me, I know the way" she says
         G       Bb     F
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, does it really matter?
                       G
You can come now or you can come later"

[Verse 5]
C
Red water in the bathroom sink
C
Fever and the scum brown bowl
G
Blue Steel still begging but it's indistinct
G
Someone's HI-Fi drumming Jelly Roll

[Verse 6]
C
Concrete concentration camp
C
Bashing in veins for peace
G                                   D
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
C
Fall into Lady Release

[Chorus 3]
C
"Come with me, I know the way" she says
          G      Bb      F
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, I mean what does it really matter?
                             G
You're going to come now or you're going to come later"

[Outro Sax Solo]
C G C G
D C D Bb F