Escrita por Joan Baez, foi gravada em 1976 no Sound Labs em Los Angeles e no TONTO, em Santa Monica, California e lançada no disco Gulf winds, o décimo sétimo da carreira da artista, em novembro de 1976. Foi produzida por David Kershenbaum. Joan Baez cantou, tocou violão, piano e sintetizador. Duck Dunn tocou baixo. Jim Gordon bateria. Ray Kelley e Jesse Ehrlich tocaram cello. Larry Knetchtel tocou piano elétrico e acústico e orgão. Dean Parks tocou violão, guitarra e bandolim. Sid Sharp tocou violino. Malcolm Cecil tocou sintetizador.
A letra:
Red
telephone sitting by my bed
Practically bore your name
Lying
alone in the twilight zone
Waiting for your call to come in
Hadn't
been for the kid
Who was sleeping upstairs
You'd have found me
well on my way
On that midnight plane to L.A.
You suffered sweeter for me
Than
anyone I've ever known
I dared to look into the years
Would
you still have your wife?
I dared to peer through my tears
Could
we ever have a life?
Even thought I was pregnant by you
But I
didn't care
I just talked to my son
Would he mind another one?
You suffered sweeter for me
Than
anyone I've ever known
Once more the mist rolls to the
sea
Like a hundred times we've known
Trees are faded and the
clouds have stopped
Where the wind had blown
How I dread when
the evening comes
And I cannot be
What you want me to be
When
you are next to me
How silent you are as the veils come
down
Before my eyes
Soft and reserved as you move away
Donning
your disguise
While every folk song that I ever knew
Once more
comes true
And loves grows old
And waxes cold
You suffered sweeter for me
Than
anyone I've ever known
Just one favor of you, my love
If I
should die today
Take me down to where the hills
Meet the sea
on a stormy day
Ride a ridge on a snow white horse
And throw my
ashes away
To the wind and the sand
Where my song began
You suffered sweeter for me
Than
anyone I've ever known
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