by Joni Mitchell on album Night Ride Home

Must i forgive you each time and say you don't know what your're doing there are no victimless crimes i know of out here in these graffiti ruins my love Oh i am not old i'm told but i am not young oh

by Joni Mitchell on album Night Ride Home

I want to paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child "You are the air my flowers breathe" He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring I

by Joni Mitchell on album Night Ride Home

Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel in the Broadway bridge we are crawling on our knees we've got flashlights and batteries we got cold cuts from the fridge Last year about this time we used to

by Joni Mitchell on album Night Ride Home

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you tell me W

by Joni Mitchell on album Turbulent Indigo

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me? Oh you tir

by Joni Mitchell on album Turbulent Indigo

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 are

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

by Joni Mitchell on album Turbulent Indigo

The story hit the news from coast to coast they said you beat the girl you loved the most your charitable acts seemed out of place with the beauty with your fist marks on her face your buddies all sto

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

Through the windless wells of wonder by the throbbing light machine in a tea leaf trance or under orders from the king and queen Songs to aging children come aging children, i am one People hurry by s

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

And so once again My dear Johnny my dear friend And so once again you are fightin' us all And when I ask you why You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall Oh, my friend How did you come To trade the f

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

Daylight falls upon the path, the forest falls behind Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind And tasted sunlight as my fear came clea

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

When I first saw your gallery I liked the ones of ladies Then you began to hang up me You studied to portray me In ice and greens And old blue jeans And naked in the roses Then you got into funny scen

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

Varnished weeds in window jars Tarnished beads on tapestries Kept in satin boxes are Reflections of love's memories Letters from across the seas Roses dipped in sealing wax Valentines and maple leave

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles I think of rain, I think of roses blue I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble To see the place she's lately gotten to Gotten to, gotten to She's got

by Joni Mitchell on album Blue

My old man He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true No, my old man Keeping away my blue

by Joni Mitchell on album Blue

Born with the moon in cancer choose her a name she will answer to call her green and the winters cannot fade her call her green for the children who've made her little green, be a gypsy dancer He went

by Joni Mitchell on album Blue

The wind is in from africa last night i couldn't sleep oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here carey but it's really not my home my fingernails are filthy, i got beach tar on my feet and i miss my

by Joni Mitchell on album Clouds

by Joni Mitchell on album The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Every picture has its shadows and it has some source of light blindness, blindness and sight the perils of benefactors the blessings of parasites blindness, blindness and sight threatened by all thing

by Joni Mitchell on album The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says, Your notches liberation doll And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall An