Two Grey Rooms - Joni Mitchell

Joni originally wrote the music in 1982 and titled it Speechless. She completed the lyrics in 1989 and released Two Grey Rooms on the 1991 album NIGHT RIDE HOME. The instrumental Speechless was released as Two Grey Rooms (Demo Version) on 2003's JONI MITCHELL: THE COMPLETE GEFFEN RECORDINGS. "It took me seven years to find words for it. I kept thinking, 'This thing wants to be written in French,' and I had to find the right story for the mood of it. It's a very dramatic melody, full of longing. So, I finally found a story in some magazine about a German aristocrat, a homosexual and friend of [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder, who had a lover in his youth that he never got over. He lost track of him for many years. One day, he discovered that his old flame was working on the docks. He moved out of his fancy digs and into a couple of dingy rooms that overlooked the route where, with his hard hat and his lunch pail, his ex-lover walked to work. He lived to glimpse him twice a day, coming and going. He never approached him." -----Complete Geffen Recordings - Album Notes by Joni Mitchell Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day I just disappeared And I took these two grey rooms up here With a view When you walk by Below my window You look so youthful Time has been untruthful Heaven knows I loved you 30 years ago Hot days your shirt's undone Rainy days you run Oh and then you fade so fast Below my window No one knows I'm here One day I just disappeared And I took these two grey rooms up here With a view Only when you walk by Below my window When you walk by Below my window Below my window Hey hey Below my window Below my window Below my window