[Lyric] Song for Joni (Dave Van Ronk)

There is a world the rats love
A rat's world, a rotted world
It fits myself like a hand a glove
And as you seek, so shall you find

There is a world of saffron seeds
Of cardamom and pennyroyal
And someone lives there that I love
But the rats are gnawing and I am blind
I am blind

There is a world of grime and grim
An angry world, an ugly world
Where curses rise like a holy hymn
And the rats have left us all behind

A curse for now and a blessing soon
A thing to lose, a thing to find
We'll give the rats all the cheese on the moon
And cinnamon castles and silly blue skiеs
And the long lost language that speaks with thе eyes
We'll make flesh from the mists of the mind