THE SAME SITUATION Joni Mitchell

Again and again the same situation For so many years Tethered to a ringing telephone In a room full ot mirrors A pretty girl in your bathroom Checking out her sex appeal I asked myself when you

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

BLUE BOY Joni Mitchell

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

Night Of The Iguana Joni Mitchell

The tour bus came yesterday The driver's a mess today It's a dump of a destiny But it's got a view... Now the kid in the see-through blouse Is moving in hard on his holy vows...

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

FACE LIFT Joni Mitchell

best facelift" I mean, after all, she introduced us Oh, but she regrets that now Shacked up downtown Making love without a license Same old sacred cow She said, "Did you come home to disgrace

If Joni Mitchell

If you can dream And not make dreams your master If you can think And not make intellect your game If you can meet With triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same If you can force

Funeral Joni Mitchell

[Swede:] "Oh, But I know he's very lucky too, because when Mingus dies there's gonna be the same funeral they had for Duke Ellington... in a big church and the whole country's going to say, wow, he was

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

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

And who is paying the price?

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

are Pissed off Jacked up Scream into the mike Spit into the loving cup Strut like a rooster March like a man God's hired hands and the devil bands Packing the same grandstands Different clothes Pot in

CACTUS TREE Joni Mitchell

harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free There's a man who's climbed a mountain

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

There's no comprehending Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes And the lips you can get And still feel so alone And still feel related Like stations in some relay You're not a hit

THE FIDDLE AND THE DRUM Joni Mitchell

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

THE PRIEST Joni Mitchell

The priest sat in the airport bar He was wearing his father's tie And his eyes looked into my eyes so far Whenever the words ran dry Behind the lash and the circles blue He looked as only a priest

THE GALLERY Joni Mitchell

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

THE ARRANGEMENT Joni Mitchell

You could have been more Than a name on the door On the thirty-third floor in the air More than a credit card Swimming pool in the backyard While you still have the time You could get away and

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

TAMING THE TIGER Joni Mitchell

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 ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

I'm looking at the only joy around He's the only joy around The only joy I found The only joy in town The Spanish steps are crowded Bunch of bodies brooding there Dead pan side-walk vendors

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

looking at the only joy around He's the only joy around The only joy I found The only joy in town The Spanish steps are crowded Bunch of bodies brooding there Dead pan side walk vendors Hustling vacant

PASSION PLAY (WHEN ALL THE SLAVES ARE FREE) Joni Mitchell

tell me Who you gonna get to do the dirty work When all the slaves are free?

Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

you gonna get to do the dirty work When all the slaves are free Who're you gonna get I am up a sycamore Looking through the leaves A sinner of some position Who in the world can this heart healer be This

FICTION Joni Mitchell

of the image and the image makers Fiction of the magazines Fiction of the movies Fiction of the "Buy me," "Watch me," "Listen to me" I can't decide I'm so confused Which way to go?

Fiction (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

papers Fiction of the image and the image makers Fiction of the magazines Fiction of the movies Fiction of the Buy me, Watch me, Listen to me I can't decide I'm so confused Which way to go I'm being useful

I Wish I Were In Love Again Joni Mitchell

The sleepless nights The daily fights The quick toboggan when you reach the heights I miss the kisses and I miss the bites I wish I were in love again The broken dates The endless waits The

SUNNY SUNDAY Joni Mitchell

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

SNAKES AND LADDERS Joni Mitchell

He In a shopping mall Finally met the perfect girl She is all that matters The only one in all the world Like a Barbie doll Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders She Just to have

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

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 for the lovely creature

UNDERNEATH THE STREETLIGHT Joni Mitchell

I swear on the stars above I do! I swear on the streetlight on the corner Shoving back the shadows!

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

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

You know I'd help her out if I only could Oh, but sometimes the light Can be so hard to find At least the moon at the window-- The thieves left that behind People don't know how to love They taste

NATHAN LA FRANEER Joni Mitchell

I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirror I read his name

THE PIRATE OF PENANCE Joni Mitchell

he'd gone I saw his sails unfurling Thursday dawn The pirate he will sink you with a kiss He'll steal your heart and sail away THE DANCER: Saturday early we met in the cove near the forest PENANCE

SEX KILLS Joni Mitchell

Just the strong doing what they can And the weak suffering what they must? And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills ... Sex kills ...

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

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

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 beat

BLONDE IN THE BLEACHERS Joni Mitchell

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

NIGHT RIDE HOME Joni Mitchell

Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man

IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER Joni Mitchell

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

Impossible Dreamer (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

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 conjure

Night Ride Home (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks

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

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?

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."

MY OLD MAN Joni Mitchell

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 My old man Keeping away my

THE CIRCLE GAME Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

THE THREE GREAT STIMULANTS Joni Mitchell

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