Urge For Going (With Strings) - Joni Mitchell

I awoke today and found the frost

perched on the town

It hovered in a frozen sky, then it

gobbled summer down

When the sun turns traitor cold and all

the trees are shivering in a naked row

I get the urge for going

But I never seem to go

I get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter

is closing in

I had me a man in summertime

He had summer-colored skin

And not another girl in town

My darling’s heart could win

But when the leaves fell on the ground

Boy winds came around, pushed them face

down in the snow

He got the urge for going

And I had to let him go

He got the urge for going

When the meadow grass was turning brown

Summertime was falling down and winter

was closing in

Now the warriors of winter they gave a

cold triumphant shout

And all that stays is dying and all that

lives is camping out

See the geese in chevron flight flapping

and racing on before the snow

They got the urge for going

And they got the wings so they can go

They get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter

is closing in

Apply the fire with kindling now

I’ll pull the blankets up to my chin

I"ll lock the vagrant winter out and

I’ll fold my wandering in

I’d like to call back summertime

Have her stay for just another

month or so

But she’s got the urge for gong

So I guess she’ll have to go

She gets the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

All her empire’s falling down

And winter’s closing in

And I get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

And summertime is falling down