by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I'll try to keep myself open up to you That's a promise that I made to love When it was new, "Just like Jericho" I said "Let these walls come tumbling down" I said it like I finally found the way To k

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Must I forgive you each time And say you don't know what you'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

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Dog eat dog It's dog eat dog, I'm just waking up The dove is in the dungeon And the white-washed hawks pedal hate and call it love Dog eat dog Holy hope in the hands of Snakebite evangelists and racke

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Because Elvis gave 'em cars You think I'm cheap And you're hard done by Look you live here like a star Rent free suite Big blue pool that you sun by Trips to tropic shores Clothes from fancy stores Y

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Yes I do, I love ya I swear on the stars above I do I swear on the streetlight on the corner Shoving back the shadows One shadow cursing Another shadow laughing Underneath the streetlight I don't kno

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Of the darkness in men's minds what can you say That wasn't marked by history or the TV news today He gets away with murder blizzards come and go The stab and glare and buckshot of the heavy heavy sno

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Since I lost you, I can't get through the day Without at least one big boo-hoo The pain won't go away What am I gonna do? Man from Mars This time you went too far I fall apart everytime I think of y

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

You're my thrill You do something to me You send chills right through me When I look at you 'Cause you're my thrill You're my thrill How my pulse increases I just go to pieces Every time I look at yo

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I met a young soldier He said his name was Killer Kyle He was shakin' all over Like a night-frightened child This is his story It's a tough one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And the b

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Holy war, genocide, suicide Hate and cruelty How can this be holy? If I had a heart I'd cry These ancient tales The good go to heaven And the wicked ones burn in hell Ring the funeral bells If I had

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

He met her in a French cafe She slipped in sideways like a cat Sidelong glances what a wary little stray She sticks in his mind like that Saying, "Avez vous un allumette?" With her lips wrapped aroun

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 sce

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I went so numb on Christmas day I couldn't feel my hands or feet I shouldn't have come she made me pay For gleaming with Donald down her street She put blame on him and shame on me She made it all se

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Heatwaves on the runway As the wheels set down He takes his baggage off the carousel He takes a taxi into town Yellow schools of taxi fishes Jonah in a ticking whale Caught up at the light in the fis

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

It came to pass Like lightening striking from above Electric flash Like lightening striking from above Struck by precious love Precious, precious love So hopeless and so inspired Why do you dream fl

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I picked the morning paper off the floor It was full of other people's little wars Wouldn't they like their peace Don't we get bored And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones A

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I stepped outside to breathe the air And stare up at the stars Big dipper hanging there Over the rented car, over the rented car I'm a runaway from the record biz From the hoods in the hood And the w

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Sisotowbell lane Noah is fixing the pump in the rain He brings us no shame We always knew that he always knew Up over the hill Jovial neighbors come down when they will With stories to tell Sometimes

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Hot winds and hunger cries, Ethiopia Flies in your babies' eyes, Ethiopia Walking sticks on burning plains Betrayed by politics, abandoned by the rains On and on, the human need On and on, the human