Joann

Oh, it's hard to tell which way you're goin

When that salty shadow's cast across the sun

In the brine of Venice shallows

Where the twisting of our roots have come undone

Maybe our hearts lie over the ocean

Maybe we never should've stepped out of this wreck

Oh, I'd kill to stand at two roads diverging

Instead of here, where fifty thousand intersect

But if I'm restless like the gulf of Siam

Won't you hold me like the wolf that I am?

When I'm hard up, just shackle my feet

And throw the keys in the street, Joann

Oh, Joann

I wish that I could now just how you're feeling

Beyond the way a farmer knows his field

But I'll proudly bow to your condition

Better still, I will bear witness to your yield

And somebody we will lay in Okinawa

Or that island off the coast of Greece

And we'll live to be a hundred

Unconcerned with silver apples or golden fleece

If I'm restless like the gulf of Siam

Won't you hold me like the wolf that I am?

When I'm hard up, just shackle my feet

And throw the keys in the street, Joann

Oh

And if our new civilization

Our tributary, aching for the sea

Well, if it dies off trying to get there

Oh, I think that'd still be good enough for me

Yeah, I think that'd still be good enough

I think that'd still be good enough

I think that'd still be good enough for me