Shawn Phillips Take It Easy
He came here out of nowhere The man without a name He brought no sense of vision From a vast and empty plain And all the darkness in her life Simply cease to be He took the place of a sentiment He came up with the key Now you stand there in the doorway Silently you cry for help You, you in your long and yellow nightgown And your cast and rattled self I see a woman of life's charades Looking at me I see the questions in your eyes How do you want to be You want to be like anyone else that's trying so Hard in search For themselves to be free Take it easy And we can make it, we can do anything in this World if we only try Get the prize For free Take it easy And we can make it
Now the clouds are around the mountains In a mantle like a velvet shroud The mimosa is about to flower And he is not so very proud But life is good and life is cruel It's always been the same And if we can we will make it through And look out at the rain Even to the call of the mind's demise The problem remains as to who gets the prize for free Take it easy