by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

He's so independent He acts like he couldn't care less for us all He's someone's descendant, their child Though he'll never acknowledge their call He's afraid to feel loved Yet I know he's afraid not

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Out of the fire like Catholic saints Comes Scarlett and her deep complaint Mimicking tenderness she sees In sentimental movies A celluloid rider comes to town Cinematic lovers sway Plantations and sw

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was standing on a noisy corner Waiting for the

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Lady called the blue boy, love, she took him home Made himself an idol, yes, so he turned to stone Like a pilgrim she traveled to place her flowers Before his granite grace And she prayed aloud for l

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Joni Mitchell Miscellaneous COOL WATER Words and music by Bob Nolan Revised lyrics by Joni Mitchell All day I face the barren waste Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan and

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Everybody looks so ill at ease, so distrustful so displeased Running down the table I see a borderline Like a barbed wire fence, strung tight, strung tense Prickling with pretense a borderline Why ar

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I am Lakota Lakota, looking at money man Diggin' the deadly quotas Out of balance, out of hand We want the land Lay down the reeking ore Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? Everywhere you touc

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Where are you now Are you in some hotel room does it have a view? Are you caught in a crowd Or holding some honey who came on to you? Why do you have to be so jive Okay hang up the phone it hurts but

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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, bu

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Betting in the OTB Synchronized

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The blonde in the bleachers She flips her hair for you above the loudspeakers You start to fall, she follows you home but you miss living alone You can still hear sweet mysteries calling you The band

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I'm going to take you to my special place It's a place that you like no one else I know might appreciate I don't go there with anyone but you're a special case For my special place, my special place M

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The minus is loveless he talks to the land And the leaves fall and the pond over-ices She don't know the system, plus, she don't understand She's got all the wrong fuses and splices She's not going to

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I met a friend of spirit He drunk [Incomprehensible] As I sat before his sanity I was holding back from crying He saw my complications And he mirrored me back simplified And we laughed how our perfec

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Old Beale Street is coming down Sweeties' snack bar, boarded up now And there goes the tailor and the shine boy's gone Faded out with ragtime blues Handy's cast in bronze and he's standing in a littl

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

It's a long, long way from Canada A long way from snow chains Donkey vendors slicing coconut No parkas to their name Black babies covered in baking flour The cook's got a carnival song We're gonna la

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

If you hear a politician Or a singer making song Do you just refuse to listen Knowing that he must be wrong That's the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how t

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head Will you still love me When I call you up when I'm down? Here in Savannah, it's pouring rain Palm trees

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths Safaris to the heart of all that jazz Through I bars and girders, through wires and pipes The mathematic circuits of the modern nights Through huts, through Harlem, th

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor There's treasure somewhere in the sea, he will find where Never mind their questions there's no answer for But t