Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little blood of his own She patrols that fence of his To a latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness Wonder makes it easy Darkness With a joyful mask Darkness Tube's gone darkness ⦠Lyrics to The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell from the The Hissing of Summer Lawns album - including song video, ⦠Music writer Howard Sounes has called The Hissing of Summer Lawns Mitchell's masterpiece, "an LP to stand alongside ⦠Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little blood of his own She patrols that fence of his To a latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness Wonder makes it easy Darkness With a joyful mask Darkness Tube's gone, darkness, ⦠From her window sill See the blue pools in the squinting sun Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little blood of his own She patrols that fence of his To a latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness Wonder makes it ⦠Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little blood of his own She patrols that fence of his To a Latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness Wonder makes it easy Darkness With a joyful mask Darkness Tube's gone, darkness, ⦠⦠The Hissing Of Summer Lawns closes even more anomalously than it opens, with âShadows And Lightâ, a breathtaking choral and synth meditation; a Gregorian chant made so modern that, after 45 years and countless hommages, it still sounds as if it is beaming in on a mainline from the future, in a steady rush of ideas and sound. Get all the lyrics to songs on The Hissing of Summer Lawns and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. However, the record's reputation has grown in stature over the years. Then play it." The Hissing of Summer Lawns is ultimately a great collection of pop poems with a distracting soundtrack. Read it first. Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little blood of his own She patrols that fence of his to a Latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness, wonder makes it easy Darkness, with a joyful mask Darkness, tube's gone Darkness, â¦