My Secret Place (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone but You're a special case For my special place For my secret place

Fiction (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

this is this and that is that Ahh I can't decide I don't know Which way to go The more you learn The less you know Which way to go Some follow blind And never know Which way to go To lead you need some place

MY SECRET PLACE Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone--but You're a special case For my special place For my secret

Lucky Girl (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm a lucky girl I found my friend I've been all around the world Mission Impossible Chasing the rainbow's end Wise guys Shy guys And sly lover boys With big bad bedroom eyes I never loved a man I trusted

Dancin' Clown (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

woods He's just weak in self defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense You're a push button window, says Rowdy Yates I can run you up and down Anytime I want I can make you my

Ethiopia (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries EthiopiaFlies in your babies' eyes EthiopiaWalking sticks on burning plainsBetrayed by politicsAbandoned by the rainsOn and on the human needOn and on the human greed pro...

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I am LakotaLakotaLooking at money manDiggin' the deadly quotasOut of balanceOut of handWe want the landLay down the reeking oreDon't you hear the shrieking in the treesEverywhere you touch the eart...

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison in the sand Don't drink it man It's in the water Cool clear water In my

Ray's Dad's Cadillac (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

the dashboard Romance in the back of Ray's Dad's Cadillac Ray's dad teaches math Zero I'm a dunce I'm a decimal in his class Last night's kisses won't erase Zero I just can't keep the numbers in their place

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

good Mega lights and supersonic sounds good, good, good Flashy boys and girls that really play good, good, good Shiny toys, when it's over don't you hate to have to put your toys away Shiny toys I love my

Two Grey Rooms (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

this Dreamer Latest styles and colors Oh, dream on, dream on, dream on The fashion looks you've been hoping for Sexy sexy Recognize this Dreamer So special Dream on We will have happiness in heaven The place

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see youMaybe once or twice a yearI think nothing would suit me betterRight nowThan some downtown atmosphereIn the dance halls and the galleriesOr betting in the OTBSynchronized l...

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Front roomsBack roomsSlide into tablesCrowd into bathroomsJoke aroundCheap talkDeep talkTalk, talk, talk around the clockCrawl homeLie downTeeth chatterHeart poundsI don't feel so goodI don't feel ...

Impossible Dreamer (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

The street was loudFrom an angry crowd andI thought of you, I thought of youDreamerLand of the freeNo hungry belliesImpossibleImpossible dreamerIn the darkest part of the nightBlue shadows conjure ...

Number One (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Got to be a winner trophy winnerGet to hold your head up high upNumber oneGot to be a winner trophy winnerGet to hold your head up high upNumber oneNumber oneNumber oneHoney tell meWhen your workin...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

coming And the wrath has finally taken form For what is this rough beast Its hour come at last Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born Hoping and hoping As if with my

Dog Eat Dog (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

It's dog eat dog I'm just waking upThe dove is in the dungeonAnd the white washed hawks pedal hate and call it loveDog Eat DogHoly hope in the hands ofSnakebite evangelists and racketeersAnd big wi...

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

HeIn a shopping mallFinally met the perfect girlShe is all that mattersThe only one in all the worldLike a Barbie dollOh love is snakes and laddersSnakes and laddersSheJust to have and holdIs the p...

Night Ride Home (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Once in a whileIn a big blue moonThere comes a night like thisLike some surrealistInvented this 4th of JulyNight ride homeHula girlsAnd caterpillar tractors in the sandThe ukulele manThe fireworksT...

The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

star Rent free suite Big blue pool that you sun by Trips to tropic shores Clothes from fancy stores You want too much You want too badly You want everything for nothing Going to the church You chant For my

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

of the blue just passin' thru A young flight sergeant On two weeks leave Says Molly McGee no one else will do And seals the tea leaf prophecy Oh these nights are strong and soft Private passions and secret

The Beat Of Black Wings (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

em There's a war zone inside me I can feel things exploding I can't even hear the fucking music playing For the beat of the beat of black wings He said, I never had nothin' Nothin' I could believe in My

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

The Three Great Stimulants (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I picked the morning paper off the floorIt was full of other people's little warsWouldn't they like their peaceDon't we get boredAnd we call for the three great stimulantsOf the exhausted onesArtif...

Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Try another, try another, try another, try anotherEmpty, empty try anotherTry another, try another, try another, try anotherEmpty, empty try anotherTry another, try another, try another, try anothe...

A Bird That Whistles (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the waterTook a man on a mountainsidePretty house by the waterLovely lover by the watersideLast time I saw that manHe hung down his head and criedCorrina, CorrinaDo you have to go...

This Place Joni Mitchell

I was talking to my neighbor He said, "When I get to heaven, if it is not like this, I'll just hop a cloud and I'm coming right back down here Back to this heavenly bliss."

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

Magdalene is tremblingLike a washing on a lineTrembling and gleamingNever before was a man so kindNever so redeemingEnter the multitudesIn Exxon blueIn radiation roseEcstasyNow you tell meWho you g...

Big Yellow Taxi (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Hey farmer farmer Put away the D.D.T. now Give me spots on my

A Case Of You (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

If you want me Ill be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue tv screen light I drew a map of canada Oh canada And your face sketched on it twice Oh you are in my blood like holy

For the Roses (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

who have slices of you From the company They toss around your latest golden egg Speculation-well, whos to know If the next one in the nest Will glitter for them so I guess I seem ungrateful With my

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

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 I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

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 I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

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 I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my

The Circle Game (LP Version) 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 S...

CHEROKEE LOUISE Joni Mitchell

want Cherokee Louise People like to talk Tongues are waggin' over fences Waggin' over phones All their doors are locked God she can't even come to our house But I know where she'll go To the place

TALK TO ME Joni Mitchell

Oh, I talk too loose Again I talk too open and free I pay a high price for my open talking Like you do for your silent mystery Come and talk to me Please talk to me Talk to me, talk to me Mr.

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

NO APOLOGIES Joni Mitchell

soldiers erred in judgement They should have hired a hooker" No apologies to the outraged Japanese No "Sorry little girl" The pigs just took her Tireskids and teethmarks What happened to this place

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

Giving my sweet love-- Tasting sweet love-- Woman to man Sometimes it's easy You drift with the empty gladness Like it all belongs Sometimes it's low down sadness Like it's all gone so wrong

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

Love Or Money Joni Mitchell

The firmament of Tinsel Town Is strung with tungsten stars Lot's of forty watt successes He says where's my own shining hour He's the well kept secret of the underground He's in debt to the company store

BORDERLINE Joni Mitchell

All convictions grow along a borderline Smug in your jaded expertise You scathe the wonder world And you praise barbarity In this illusionary place-- This scared hard-edged rat race All liberty

THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

Oh these nights are strong and soft-- Private passions and secret storms Nothin' about him ticks her off And he looks so cute in his uniform She plants her garden in the spring He does the winter

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Joni Mitchell

Oh these nights are strong and soft-- Private passions and secret storms Nothin' about him ticks her off And he looks so cute in his uniform She plants her garden in the spring He does the winter shovelling

Shine Joni Mitchell

Oh let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on Wall Street and Vegas Place your bets Shine on the fishermen With nothing in their nets Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas Shine

THE PIRATE OF PENANCE Joni Mitchell

PENANCE CRANE: The pirate anchored on a Wednesday And why he came to port I wonder To see a lady so my friends say She dances for the sailors In a smoky cabaret bar underground Down in a cellar

Don't Go to Strangers Joni Mitchell

Build your dreams To the stars above But when you need someone true to love Don't go to strangers Lover come to me Play with fire Get your fingers burned But when there's no place left to turn Don't go

Funeral Joni Mitchell

I'm going to be buried man - I got my shit all figured out!" [Swede:] "You're going to get a big funeral - you're famous!" [Charles:] "Vedanta Society, India, I'm going to be buried in India!"