THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS Joni Mitchell

the beat of--the beat of black wings "They gave me a gun," he said "They gave me a mission For the power and the glory-- Propaganda--piss on 'em There's a war zone inside me-- I can feel things

The Beat Of Black Wings (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

of the beat of black wings They gave me a gun, he said They gave me a mission For the power and the glory Propaganda piss on 'em There's a war zone inside me I can feel things exploding I can't even hear

COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE Joni Mitchell

Cold Blue Steel out of money One eye for the beat police Sweet Fire calling "You can't deny me Now you know what you need" Underneath the jungle gym Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief Looking for Sweet

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings You were playing like a devil wearing

BLACK CROW Joni Mitchell

There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty Where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters flow Come all you fair and tender school girls Be careful now--when you court young men They are like the

THE TENTH WORLD Joni Mitchell

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 going

Dreamland Joni Mitchell

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 going to lay

SONG TO A SEAGULL Joni Mitchell

Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams

SWEET BIRD Joni Mitchell

Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

I would beat the drum like war I'd beat the drum I'd beat the drum like war But when the church got through They traded their beads for bottles Smashed--on Railway Avenue And they cut off their

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where Never mind their questions there's no answer for The roll

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

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 touch the

MORNING MORGANTOWN Joni Mitchell

When morning comes to Morgantown The merchants roll their awnings down The milktrucks make their morning rounds In morning, Morgantown We'll rise up early, with the sun To ride the bus while everyone

THE WOLF THAT LIVES IN LINDSEY Joni Mitchell

Of the darkness in men's minds What can you say That wasn't marked by history Or the T.V. news today He gets away with murder The blizzards come and go The stab and glare and buckshot Of the heavy

SHADOWS AND LIGHT Joni Mitchell

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

LAKOTA Joni Mitchell

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?

People's Parties Joni Mitchell

All the people at this party They've got a lot of style They've got stamps of many countries They've got passport smiles Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are

Why Do Fools Fall In Love Joni Mitchell

Why do birds sing so gay And lovers await the break of day Why do they fall in love Why does the rain fall from up above Why do fools fall in love Why do they fall in love?

THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS Joni Mitchell

He bought her a diamond for her throat He put her in a ranch house on a hill She could see the valley barbecues From her window sill See the blue pools in the squinting sun Hear the hissing of summer

NOT TO BLAME Joni Mitchell

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

THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

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

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

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'm

This Place Joni Mitchell

Sparkle on the ocean Eagle at the top of a tree Those crazy crows always making a commotion This land is home to me.

HARLEM IN HAVANA Joni Mitchell

At the far end of the midway by the double ferris wheel There's a band that plays so snakey You can't help how you feel Emmie Mae ran away With a man as dark as night You can see him, if you go

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are full of passion Without mercy Surely some revelation is at hand Surely it's the second coming

ROSES BLUE Joni Mitchell

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

BARANGRILL Joni Mitchell

Three waitresses all wearing Black diamond earrings Talking about zombies And Singapore slings No trouble in their faces Not one anxious voice None of the crazy you get From too much choice The

THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe You laugh, he said you think you're immune

Last Time I Saw Richard Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you're immune

Harry's House-Centerpiece Joni Mitchell

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 fishnet

Harry's House / Centerpiece Joni Mitchell

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 fishnet

ELECTRICITY Joni Mitchell

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

YVETTE IN ENGLISH Joni Mitchell

With her lips wrapped around a cigarette Yvette in English saying, "Please have this Little bit of instant bliss."

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

Gravel under the belly plates ..." He says, "Wind in the Wings ..." He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust ... Snake kite flying on a string."

Urge For Going Joni Mitchell

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold and shivering trees are standing in a naked row I get the urge

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

life But yours will have to wait He's immaculately tax free "Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ..."

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

will have to wait He's immaculately tax free Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of Tax free Hundreds and millions of dollars Tax free A hundred billion dollars And who is paying the price Who, who Your children

FOR THE ROSES Joni Mitchell

caressing rev of motors Finely tuned like fancy women In thirties evening gowns Up the charts Off to the airport- Your name's in the news Everything's first class- The lights go down- And it's

For the Roses (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

caressing rev of motors Finely tuned like fancy women In thirties evening gowns Up the charts Off to the airport- Your names in the news Everythings first class- The lights go down- And its just

FURRY SINGS THE BLUES Joni Mitchell

park With a trumpet in his hand Like he's listening back to the good old bands And the click of high heeled shoes Old Furry sings the blues Propped up in his bed With his dentures and his leg removed

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue-

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

"A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's where

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

in the porch light like slick black cellophane Will you still love me When I call you up when I get back to town I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm

WILD THINGS RUN FAST Joni Mitchell

He came She smiled She thought she had him tamed But he was just as wild Eating from her hand at last Wild things run fast In the dark He could see The trap that was lying in her Sweet company

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

Lesson in Survival Spinning out on turns That gets you tough Guru books-the Bible Only a reminder That you're just not good enough You need to believe in something Once I could in our love Black

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

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

SNAKES AND LADDERS Joni Mitchell

slide back down Get to the bottom climb back up Buy the townhouse Call the preacher Get to the bottom climb back up Get to the top and slide back down Get to the bottom climb back up Set up credit