willowy coolness

This week's wickedly willow song is the fabulous Joan Armatrading singing one of her best known songs, "Willow". Armatrading is the talented British singer, songwriter, guitarist, and three-time Grammy Award-nominee, nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist; also received an Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. Armatrading currently lives in Surrey, England, where her farmhouse home includes a recording studio. Anyone who can write super lyrics, set them to music, dole them out with this kinda flair and lives in a farmhouse in England is in my willowy book of coolness.

I may not be your best

But you know good ones

Don't come by the score

If you've got something missing

I'll help you look

You can be sure

And if you want to be alone

Or someone to share a laugh

Whatever you want to do

All you got to do is ask

Thunder

Don't go under the sheets

Lightning

Under a tree

In the rain and snow

I'll be your fireside

Come running to me

When things get out of hand

Running to me

When it's more than you can stand

I said I'm strong

Straight

Willing

To be a shelter

In a storm

Your willow

Oh willow

When the sun is out

A fight with your best girl

Prettiest thing you ever saw

You know I'll listen

Try to get a message to her

And if it's money you want

Or trouble halved

Whatever you want me to do

All you got to do is ask

I said I'm strong

Straight

Willing

To be a shelter

In a storm

Your willow

Oh willow

When the sun is out