Just Like Me - Joni Mitchell

Hes so independent

He acts like he couldnt care less for us all

Hes someones descendent

Their child

But hell never acknowledge their call

Hes afraid to be loved

And I know hes afraid not to be And hell laugh and hell cry

And someday hell die

Just like me Just like me Hes settling a score

With a world

That wants a reason

Every time you turn around

Just like me Hes looking for a door

Standing open, saying welcome

Come and lay your troubles down

Just like me Hell drop his pretenses

Youll see through the stone to the heart of the man

But the moment he senses youve seen him

Hell leave you as fast as he can

Hell return to his shadows

Where no one can look in and see

And hell wake in the night

And hell cry like a child

Just like me Just like me Hes settling a score

With a world that wants a reason

Every time you turn around

Just like me Hes looking for a door

Standing open, saying welcome

Come and lay your troubles down

Just like me Ive seen him look hungry for someone

To tell him «youre doing just fine»

The songs that hes sung me Have loneliness woven between every line

With no strings to hold him

I guess he could call himself free

Yes, hes free to be empty and lonely and wrong

Just like me Just like me Hes settling a score

With a world that wants a reason

Every time you turn around

Just like me Hes looking for a door

Standing open, saying welcome

Come and lay your troubles down

Just like me