Joni Mitchell - Chinese Café / Unchained Melody

written & produced by Joni Mitchell | from the album Wild Things Run Fast (1982) | contains elements of Unchained Melody written Hy Zaret & Alex North | Caught in the middle Carol we’re middle class We’re middle aged We were wild in the old days Birth of rock ’n’ roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my child’s a stranger I bore her But I could not raise her Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Café We’d be dreaming on our dimes We’d be playing “Oh my love, my darling“ One more time Uranium money Is booming in the old home town now It’s putting up sleek concrete Tearing the old landmarks down now Paving over brave little parks Ripping off Indian land again How long how long Short sighted business men Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Café We’d be dreaming on our dimes We’d be playing “You give y