(j.mitchell)   Originally performed by joni mitchell. jeff performed it live at sin-é, new york, late in the night on december 31 1995.   All the people at this party   They've got a lot of style   They've got stamps of many countries   They've got passport smiles   Some are friendly   Some are cutting   Some are watching it from the wings   Some are standing in the centre   Giving to get something      Photo beauty gets attention   Then her eye paint's running down   She's got a rose in her teeth   And a lampshade crown   One minute she's so happy   Then she's crying on someone's knee   Saying laughing and crying   You know it's the same release      I told you when I met you   I was crazy   Cry for us all beauty   Cry for eddie in the corner   Thinking he's nobody   And jack behind his joker   And stone-cold grace behind her fan   And me in my frightened silence   Thinking I don't understand      I feel like I'm sleeping   Can you wake me   You seem to have a broader sensibility   I'm just living on nerves and feelings   With a weak and a lazy mind   And coming to peoples parties   Fumbling deaf dumb and blind      I wish I had more sense of humor   Keeping the sadness at bay   Throwing the lightness on these things   Laughing it all away   Laughing it all away   Laughing it all away