Nothing Can Be Done

Joni Mitchell · The Complete Geffen Recordings [2007]

Must I forgive you each time

And say you don't know what you're doing

There are no victimless crimes I know of

Out here in these graffiti ruins, my love



Oh, I am not old, I'm told

But I am not young

Oh, and nothing can be done

Don't start my heart is a smoking gun

Oh, and nothing can be done

Nothing can be done



I heard you leaving, oh, late last night

I heard you screaming down the mountain

Like you were running red lights

You had some trash-can-rock-band pounding



Oh, I am not old, I'm told

But I am not young

Oh, and nothing can be done

Don't start my heart is a smoking gun

Oh, and nothing can be done

Nothing can be done

Nothing, oh

Nothing can be done



Must I surrender, oh, with grace

The things I loved when I was younger, sweet embrace

Must I remember your face so well

Nothing can be done

What do I do here with this hunger?



Oh, I am not old, I'm told

But I am not young

Oh, and nothing can be done

Don't start my heart is a smoking gun

Oh, and nothing can be done

Nothing can be done



And nothing can be done

Nothing can be done

Can be done

Oh, nothing can be done

Nothing can be done

And nothing can be done

Nothing can be done



Nothing can be done

Nothing can be done

Nothing can be done