Resident on Cloud

Written by: zoz

SingALong Minoto : Resident on Cloud
To the tune of “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell
(Joni Mitchell seems to have known all about Minoto when she wrote this song, because I hardly had to change the words. Could it be that her name is really Joni Minoto??? Joni's original words are in italics)

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons ev'rywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on ev'ryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Bones that have delicious meat
To lay at lion cubbies’ feet
Stones cut out like Lion Kings
Minoto has such things

And we will steal the Lion so cool
And make him fill a swimming pool
Where Ninja boy (nobody’s fool!)
Can hide himself away

We take the cup that has nothing
In the container, too, and bring
That tea cup to the water scene
And fill it up with tea

An Herbal tea to soothe the mien
Of mountain that is blowing steam
No things aren’t always what they seem
Here in Minoto’s land

The fox ascends the docile hill
by motorcycle and he spills
His buddy off the mat, which will
Let Cloud Boy float away

Look at the mat and see: It’s rough
It’s sandpaper, and it is tough
It roughs the sliding board enough
Green Kitty can now play

He climbs the board and then he swings
On hanging lamp, which falls and brings
Us a terrarium with things
Like soil on the inside

The terrarium has a door
Let’s fill the cup with tea once more
And find the drooping plant and pour
On wilted seedling’s head

Put seedling’s root on inside dirt
And energize it ‘til it squirts
Revitalizing gas (inert)
Which makes the Ninja go

To target practice – what a thrill,
With blade of arms so strong, it will
Not be beat by material
This blade, it will hold out

Blade cracks the rock and finds a door,
Then hits the snoring rock twice more
The Easter Island rock implores
Us to give him a smoke

Against our better judgment we
Use sandpaper on door to free
A cigarette from factory
Where cigarettes are made

Now Easter Island rock can blow
A circle of cloud and we know
How clouds can be and so we go
Find Cloud Boy in the air

Give him the circle of the spout-
Ed smoke so he can now jump out
Of Oni’s cloud which had no clout
It was insufficient

Good quality cloud was obtained
In time for the season of rain
At which Oni had set his aim
Cloud end is method of just one


But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
It is Minoto’s way


I've looked at life from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Minoto games that I recall
Make fairy tales seem not so tall
28/5/10 17:14