by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 Miscellaneous

You don't know what you've got You don't know what you've got They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you do

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 Miscellaneous

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 thin

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

He comes for conversation I comfort him sometimes Comfort and consultation He knows that's what he'll find I bring him apples and cheeses He brings me songs to play He sees me when he pleases I see h

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man Hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I remember Monday rising up to pack his lunch We kissed goodbye Saying what a foolish girl was I Saying, what a fool was she Near the store where I go shopping On display there was a golden watch cha

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

It fell from midnight skies It drummed on the galvanized In the washroom, women tracked the rain Up to the make up mirror Liquid soap and grass And jungle gardenia crash On pine sol and beer It's sti

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Again and again, the same situation for so many years Tethered to a ringing telephone in a room full of mirrors A pretty girl in your bathroom, checking out her sex appeal I asked myself when you said

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Joni Mitchell Miscellaneous WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE? Why do fools fall in love? Why do birds sing so gay And lovers await the break of day Why do they fall in love Why does the

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 Miscellaneous

Light up light up, light up your lazy blue eyes Moon's up nights up taking the town by surprise Night time night time day left an hour ago City light time must you get ready so slow There are places t

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I'm always running behind the time Just like this train Shaking into town With the brakes complaining I used to count lovers like railroad cars I counted them on my side Lately I don't count on nothi

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

There was a moon and a street lamp I didn't know I drank such a lot 'Till I pissed a tequila-anaconda The full length of the parking lot Oh, I talk too loose Again I talk too open and free I pay a hi

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Papa's faith is people Mama she believes in cleaning Papa's faith is in people Mama she's always cleaning Papa brought home the sugar Mama taught me the deeper meaning She don't like my kick pleat sk

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think I'm like your mother Or another lover or your

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Ray's Dad's Cadillac Ray's Dad's Cadillac Ray's Dad's Cadillac Rollin' past the rink past the record shack Pink fins in the falling rain Rollin' to the blue lights past the water mains Ray's Dad's C

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The street was loud from an angry crowd and I thought of you, I thought of you, dreamer Land of the free no hungry bellies Impossible, impossible dreamer In the darkest part of the night blue shadows

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

(Study war no more) (Lay down your arms) (Study war no more) (Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now) (Study war no more) (Lay down your arms) (Study war no more) Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread The able bod

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

She pulls the shade, it's just another sunny Sunday She dodges the light like Blanche DuBois Bright colors fade away on such a sunny Sunday She waits for the night to fall Then she points a pistol th