Joni Mitchell, CC Order of Canada (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto. In the mid-1960s she left for New York City and its rich folk music scene, recording her debut album Song_to_a_Seagull in 1968 and achieving fame first as a songwriter ("Urge for Going",... [read more] - Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Don't worry 'bout meI'll get alongForget about meJust be happy my loveLet's say that our little show is overAnd so the story endsWhy not call it a day the sensible wayAnd still be friendsLook out for yourselfThat...
- Comes Love
Comes a rain stormPut your rubbers on your feetComes a snow stormYou can get a little heatComes loveNothing can be doneComes a fireFiremen come and rescue meBlow a tireYou can patch the inner tubeComes loveNothing can...
- Sometimes I'm Happy
Sometimes I'm happySometimes I'm blueMy disposition depends on youI never mind the rain from the skiesAs long as I have the sun in your eyesSometimes I love youSometimes I hate youWhen I hate youIt's because I love...
- Both Sides Now
Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.But now they only block the sun, They rain and snow on everyoneSo many things I would have...
- A Case Of You
Just before our love got lost you said"I am as constant as a northern star"And I said, "Constant in the darknessWhere's that at?If you want me I'll be in the bar"On the back of a cartoon coasterIn the blue TV screen...
- YouÂ’re My Thrill
You're my thrillYou do something to meYou send chills right through meWhen I look at you'cause you're my thrillYou're my thrillHow my pulse increasesI just go to piecesEvery time I look at youI can't keep stillNothing...
- At Last
- Answer Me, My Love
Answer meOh my loveJust what sin have I been guilty ofTell me how I came to lose your lovePlease answer me sweetheartYou were mine yesterdayI believed that love was here to stayWon't you tell me how I've gone...
- Don't Go To Strangers
Build your dreamsTo the stars aboveBut when you need someone true to loveDon't go to strangersLover come to mePlay with fireGet your fingers burnedBut when there's no place left to turnDon't go to strangersLover come...
- I Wish I Were In Love Again
- You've Changed
You've changedThe sparkle in your eyes is goneYour smile is just a careless yawnYou're breaking my heartYou've changedYou've changedYour kisses now are so blaséYou're bored with me in every wayI can't...
- Stormy Weather
Don't know whyThere's no sun up in the skyStormy weatherSince my man and I ain't togetherKeeps rainin' all of the timeLife is bareGloom and misery everywhereStormy weatherJust can't get my poor self togetherI'm weary...
- Moon At The Window
It takes cheerful resignationHeart and humilityThat's all it takesA cheerful person told meNobody's harder on me than meHow could they beAnd, nobody's harder on you than youBetsy's blueShe says-"Tell me something...
- Ladies' Man
Well, I've heard of heartbreakersBut you take the cakeLadies' manYou could charm the diamondsOff a rattlesnakeLadies' manLadies bring it on overWhen you give 'em the glanceThey don't stand a chanceFirst, you unfold...
- Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
Caught in the middleCarol, we're middle classWe're middle agedWe were wild in the old daysBirth of rock 'n roll daysNow your kids are coming up straightAnd my child's a strangerI bore herBut, I could not raise...
- You Dream Flat Tires
It came to passLike lightening striking from aboveElectric flashJust like lightening striking from aboveStruck by precious lovePrecious, precious loveSo hopeless and so inspiredWhy do you dream flat tiresWhen you...
- Man To Man
No demandsJust pleasurable sensationsHand in handNo far reaching plansNo, no-hand in handWell I keep on trying to understandDaylight brightHow come I keep movingFrom man to man to man?Giving my sweet love--Tasting...
- Love (Corinthians II:13)
Although I speak in tonguesOf men and angelsI'm just sounding brassAnd tinkling cymbals without love--Love suffers long--Love is kind!--Enduring all things--Love has no evil in mindIf I had the gift of prophecy--And...
- Be Cool
If there's one rule to this gameEverybody's gonna nameIt's, be cool!If you're worried or uncertainIf your feelings are hurtin'You're a fool if you can't keep coolCharm 'emDon't alarm 'emKeep things lightKeep your...
- Solid Love
We got a breakUnbelievableWe got a breakRight in the middle of thisHollywood heartacheWe got this solid loveAll around the townGood hearts are going underLove bandits con and plunderLet nobody put asunder this solid...
- Wild Things Run Fast
He cameShe smiledShe thought she had him tamedBut he was just as wildEating from her hand at lastWild things run fastIn the darkHe could seeThe trap that was lying in herSweet companyEating from her hand at lastWild...
- (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
You're so square--babyYou're so square . . .Oh, you don't like greasy dinersYou don't like sleazy bandsYou just want to goTo a movie showAnd sit there holding handsYou're so squareBaby I don't careYou don't like going...
- Underneath The Streetlight
Yes I do--I love you!I swear on the stars above I do!I swear on the streetlight on the cornerShoving back the shadows!One shadow cursingAnother shadow laughingUnderneath the streetlightI don't know where they're...
- The Boho Dance
Down in the cellar in the Boho zoneI went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh wellJust another hard-time bandWith Negro affectationsI was a hopeful in rooms like thisWhen I was working cheapIt's an old romance-the...
- Shades Of Scarlet Conquering
Out of the fire like Catholic saintsComes Scarlett and her deep complaintMimicking tenderness she seesIn sentimental moviesA celluloid rider comes to townCinematic lovers swayPlantations and sweeping ballroom...
- Harry's House-Centerpiece
Heatwaves on the runwayAs the wheels set downHe takes his baggage off the carouselHe takes a taxi into townYellow schools of taxi fishesJonah in a ticking whaleCaught up at the light in the fishnet windowsOf...
- The Jungle Line
Rousseau walks on trumpet pathsSafaris to the heart of all that jazzThrough I bars and girders-through wires and pipesThe mathematic circuits of the modern nightsThrough huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel...
- Sweet Bird
Out on some borderlineSome mark of inbetweenI lay down golden-in timeAnd woke up vanishingSweet bird you areBriefer than a falling starAll these vain promises on beauty jarsSomewhere with your wings on timeYou must be...
- Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
Don't interrupt the sorrowDarn rightIn flames our prophet witchesBe politeA room full of glassesHe says "Your notches liberation doll"And he chains me with that serpentTo that Ethiopian wallAnima risingQueen of...
- Shadows And Light
Every picture has its shadowsAnd it has some source of lightBlindness, blindness and sightThe perils of benefactorsThe blessings of parasitesBlindness, blindness and sightThreatened by all thingsDevil of crueltyDrawn...
- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
He bought her a diamond for her throatHe put her in a ranch house on a hillShe could see the valley barbecuesFrom her window sillSee the blue pools in the squinting sunHear the hissing of summer lawnsHe put up a...
- Edith And The Kingpin
The big man arrivesDisco dancers greet himPlainclothes cops greet himSmall town, big man, fresh lipstick glisteningSophomore jiveFrom victims of typewritersThe band sounds like typewritersThe big man he's not...
- In France They Kiss On Main Street
DowntownMy darling dimestore thiefIn the War of IndependenceRock 'n Roll rang sweet as victoryUnder neon signsA girl was in bloomAnd a woman was fadingIn a suburban roomI said, "Take me to the dance""Do you want to...
- The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)
Because Elvis gave 'em carsYou think I'm cheapAnd you're hard done byLook-you live here like a starRent free suiteBig blue pool that you sun byTrips to tropic shoresClothes from fancy storesYou want too muchYou want...
- Cherokee Louise
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Turning and turningWithin the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconerThings fall apartThe center cannot holdAnd a blood dimmed tideIs loosed upon the worldNothing is sacredThe ceremony sinksInnocence is...
- Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's CadillacRollin' past the rinkPast the record s***Pink fins in the falling rainRollin'To the blue lights past the water mainsRay's Dad's CadillacWeekends we'd getRay's Dad's CadillacRock 'n roll in the...
- Two Grey Rooms
Tomorrow is SundayNow there's only one day left to goTill you walk byBelow my windowThe weekends drive me madHolidays are oh too sad'Cause you don't goBelow my windowNo one knows I'm hereOne day I just disappearedAnd...
- Night Ride Home
- Passion Play
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 gonna get to do the...
- Nothing Can Be Done
Must I forgive youEach timeAnd say you don't know what your're doingThere are no victimless crimesI know ofOut here in these graffiti ruinsMy loveOh I am not oldI'm toldBut I am not youngOh and nothing can be...
- Come In From The Cold
Back in 1957We had to dance a foot apartAnd they hawk-eyed us from the sidelinesHolding their rulers without a heartAnd so with just a touch of our fingersI could make our circuitry explodeAll we ever wantedWas just...
- The Only Joy In Town
I want to paint a pictureBotticelli styleInstead of Venus on a clamI'd paint this flower child"You are the air my flowers breathe"He calls, and the ladies turn aroundOn the first day of SpringI'm looking at the only...
- Rainy Night House
It was a rainy nightWe took a taxi to your mother's homeShe went to Florida and left youWith your father's gun, aloneUpon her small white bedI fell into a dreamYou sat up all the night and watched meTo see, who in the...
- Conversation
He comes for conversationI comfort him sometimesComfort and consultationHe knows that's what he'll findI bring him apples and cheesesHe brings me songs to playHe sees me when he pleasesI see him in cafesAnd I only...
- Ladies Of The Canyon
Trina wears her wampum beadsShe fills her drawing book with lineSewing lace on widows' weedsAnd filigree on leaf and vineVine and leaf are filigreeAnd her coat's a secondhand oneTrimmed with antique luxuryShe is a...
- Morning Morgantown
When morning comes to MorgantownThe merchants roll their awnings downThe milktrucks make their morning roundsIn morning, MorgantownWe'll rise up early, with the sunTo ride the bus while everyone is yawningAnd the day...
- The Circle Game
Yesterday a child came out to wonderCaught a dragonfly inside a jarFearful when the sky was full of thunderAnd tearful at the falling of a starThen the child moved ten times round the seasonsSkated over ten clear...
- For Free
I slept last night in a good hotelI went shopping today for jewelsThe wind rushed around in the dirty townAnd the children let out from the schoolsI was standing on a noisy cornerWaiting for the walking greenAcross...
- The Arrangement
You could have been moreThan a name on the doorOn the thirty-third floor in the airMore than a credit cardSwimming pool in the backyardWhile you still have the timeYou could get away and findA better life, you know...
- The Priest
The priest sat in the airport barHe was wearing his father's tieAnd his eyes looked into my eyes so farWhenever the words ran dryBehind the lash and the circles blueHe looked as only a priest can, thruAnd his eyes...
- Blue Boy
Lady called the blue boy, love,She took him homeMade himself an idol, yes,So he turned to stoneLike a pilgrim she travelledTa place her flowersBefore his granite graceAnd she prayed aloud for loveTo waken in his...
- Woodstock
I came upon a child of GodHe was walking along the roadAnd I asked him, where are you goingAnd this he told meI'm going on down to Yasgur's farmI'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll bandI'm going to camp out on the...
- Willy
Willy is my child, he is my fatherI would be his lady all my lifeHe says he'd love to live with meBut for an ancient injuryThat has not healedHe said I feel once againLike I gave my heart too soonHe stood looking thru...
- Snakes And Ladders
He In a shopping mallFinally met the perfect girl She is all that mattersThe only one in all the world Like a Barbie dollOh love is snakes and laddersSnakes and laddersShe Just to have and holdIs the perfect...
- Cool Water
All day I face the barren wasteWithout a taste of waterCool waterOld Dan and IOur throats slate dryOur spirits cry out for waterCool clear waterKeep on movin' DanSome devils had a planBuried poison in the sandDon't...
- My Secret Place
I'm going to take you toMy special placeIt's a place that youLike no one else I knowMight appreciateI don't go there with anyone--butYou're a special caseFor my special placeFor my secret placePeople talk to tell you...
- Lakota
I am Lakota!Lakota!Looking at money man--Diggin' the deadly quotas--Out of balance--Out of handWe want the land!Lay down the reeking ore!Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees?Everywhere you touch the earth--she's...
- Dancin' Clown
No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woodsHe's just weak in self-defense'Cause he's so thin skinnedHe can't take a joke at his expense"You're a push down window," says Rowdy Yates"I can run you up and downAnytime...
- Number One
Got to be a winner--trophy winnerGet to hold your head up high up!Number one!Got to be a winner--trophy winnerGet to hold your head up high up!Number one!Number oneNumber oneHoney tell me--When your working day is...
- The Reoccurring Dream
This is the reoccurring dreamBorn in the dreary gap betweenWhat we have nowAnd what we wish we could have More fulfilling--and less frustrating!Out of the envy in our eyes Look!Glamorous picture people rise...
- A Bird That Whistles
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 goCorrina, CorrinaTell...
- The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)
Study war no moreLay down your armsStudy war no moreLay 'em down, lay 'em down nowStudy war no moreLay down your armsStudy war no moreNewsreels rattle the Nazi dread--The able-bodied have shipped away--Molly McGee...
- The Beat Of Black Wings
I met a young soldierHe said his name was Killer KyleHe was shakin' all overLike a night-frightened childThis is his storyIt's a tough one for me to singHard as the squawk and the flapAnd the beat of--the beat of...
- Coyote
No regrets CoyoteWe just come from such different sets of circumstanceI'm up all night in the studiosAnd you're up early on your ranchYou'll be brushing out a brood mare's tailWhile the sun is ascendingAnd I'll just...
- Blue Motel Room
I've got a blue motel roomWith a blue bedspreadI've got the blues inside and outside my headWill you still love meWhen I call you up when I'm downHere in Savannah it's pouring rainPalm trees in the porch light like...
- Hejira
I'm traveling in some vehicleI'm sitting in some cafeA defector from the petty warsThat shell shock love awayThere's comfort in melancholyWhen there's no need to explainIt's just as natural as the weatherIn this moody...
- Strange Boy
A strange boy is weavingA course of grace and havocOn a yellow skateboardThru midday sidewalk trafficJust when I think he's foolish and childishAnd I want him to be manlyI catch my fool and my childNeeding love and...
- Furry Sings The Blues
Old Beale Street is coming downSweeties' Snack Bar, boarded up nowAnd Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy's goneFaded out with ragtime bluesHandy's cast in bronzeAnd he's standing in a little parkWith a trumpet in his...
- Refuge Of The Roads
I met a friend of spiritHe drank and womanizedAnd I sat before his sanityI was holding back from cryingHe saw my complicationsAnd he mirrored me back simplifiedAnd we laughed how our perfectionWould always be...
- Black Crow
There's a crow flyingBlack and raggedTree to treeHe's black as the highway that's leading meNow he's diving downTo pick up on something shinyI feel like that black crowFlyingIn a blue skyI took a ferry to the...
- Song For Sharon
I went to Staten Island.To buy myself a mandolinAnd I saw the long white dress of loveOn a storefront mannequinBig boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars...All for something lacySome girl's going to see that...
- Amelia
I was driving across the burning desertWhen I spotted six jet planesLeaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrainIt was the hexagram of the heavensit was the strings of my guitarAmelia, it was just a false...
- Yvette In English
He met her in a French cafeShe slipped in sideways like a catSidelong glancesWhat a wary little stray!She sticks in his mind like thatSaying, "Avez-vous un allumette?"With her lips wrapped around a cigaretteYvette in...
- Turbulent Indigo
You wanna make Van GoghsRaise 'em up like sheepMake 'em out of EskimosAnd women if you pleaseMake 'em nice and normalMake 'em nice and neatYou see him with his shotgun there?Bloodied in the wheat?Oh what do you know...
- Last Chance Lost
Last chance lost--In the tyranny of a long good-byeLast chance lost--We talk of us with deadly earnest eyesLast chance lost--We talk of love in terms of sacrifice and compromiseLast chance--Last chance lostLast chance...
- Sunny Sunday
She pulls the shade;It's just another sunny SundayShe dodges the light like Blanche DuBoisBright colors fade away on such a sunny Sunday;She waits for the night to fallThen she points a pistol through the doorAnd she...
- Not To Blame
The story hit the newsFrom coast to coastThey said you beat the girlYou loved the mostYour charitable actsSeemed out of placeWith the beautyWith your fist marks on her faceYour buddies all stood byThey bet their...
- *** Kills
I pulled up behind a Cadillac;We were waiting for the light;And I took a look at his license plate-It said, "Just Ice."Is justice just ice?Governed by greed and lust?Just the strong doing what they canAnd the weak...
- How Do You Stop
Hard bodiesSoft emotionsSo fastSo smartThe world is at your feetBut what about your heart?Fame and fortune can't hold you tightIn the late late hours of the nightHow do you stopBefore it's too late?You choose and you...
- Borderline
Everybody looks so ill at easeSo distrustful so displeasedRunning down the tableI see a borderlineLike a barbed wire fenceStrung tight, strung tensePrickling with pretenseA borderlineWhy are you smirking at your...
- Magdalene Laundries
I was an unmarried girlI'd just turned twenty-sevenWhen they sent me to the sistersFor the way men looked at meBranded as a jezebelI knew I was not bound for HeavenI'd be cast in shameInto the Magdalene laundriesMost...
- The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)
Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness--Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering fleshDo you have eyes?Can you see like mankind sees?Why have you soured and curdled me?Oh you tireless watcher! What...
- People's Parties
All the people at this partyThey've got a lot of styleThey've got stamps of many countriesThey've got passport smilesSome are friendlySome are cuttingSome are watching it from the wingsSome are standing in the...
- The Same Situation
Again and again the same situationFor so many yearsTethered to a ringing telephoneIn a room full ot mirrorsA pretty girl in your bathroomChecking out her *** appealI asked myself when you said you loved me"Do you...
- Twisted
My analyst told meThat I was right out of my headThe way he described itHe said I'd be better dead than liveI didn't listen to his jiveI knew all alongThat he was all wrongAnd I knew that he thoughtI was crazy but I'm...
- Court And Spark
Love came to my doorWith a sleeping rollAnd a madman's soulHe thought for sure I'd seen himDancing up a river in the darkLooking for a womanTo court and sparkHe was playing on the sidewalkFor passing changeWhen...
- Trouble Child
Up in a sterilized roomWhere they let you be lazyKnowing your attitude's all wrongAnd you got to changeAnd that's not easyDragon shining with all values knownDazzling you-keeping you from your ownWhere is the lion in...
- Car On A Hill
I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to showI've been listening to the sirens and the radioHe said he'd be over three hours agoI've been waiting for his car on the hillHe makes friends easyHe's not like meI watch...
- Just Like This Train
I'm always running behind the timeJust like this trainShaking into townWith the brakes complainingI used to count lovers like railroad carsI counted them on my sideLately I don't count on nothingI just let things...
- Down To You
Everything comes and goesMarked by lovers and styles of clothesThings that you held highAnd told yourself were trueLost or changing as the days come down to youDown to youConstant strangerYou're a kind personYou're a...
- Quicksand
Gonna write a letter to my babyAnd this is what im gonna sayOn second thought I think I'll the timeTo say it to her faceI can't eat I can't sleep I feel like I'm going down for the last timeI'm sinking in your sea of...
- Impossible Dreamer
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 youAnd in the...
- Shiny Toys
Shiny toys--right on timeShiny toys--right on timeShiny toysI'm reading people rags in the checkout laneLook, here's a hunk--here's a honeyCelebrated people and their claims to fameHere's a boy and his moneyAnd...
- Tax Free
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 so goodPush a button...
- Good Friends
I have to come and see you--Maybe once or twice a year--I think nothing would suit me better (Right now)Than some downtown atmosphere ...In the dance halls and the galleriesOr betting in the OTBSynchronized--like...
- Bonfire
She's tall like the Eiffel TowerFast, New York to Paris in half an hourShe's lean, a real love machineProbably take on the whole football teamStrong, as the day is longThink you got her figured outYou find out you...
- The Three Great Stimulants
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 onesArtifice, brutality and...
- Ethiopia
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...
- Let It Rain
I can't get up the nerve to call youBut I want to call so badTo find out, who's holding on toThe most beautiful thing I ever hadI reach to pull you closerAnd remember you're not thereCHORUSLet it rain (rain)Let it...
- All My Bridges Are Burning
Jimmy goes through the money like a millionaireBills pile up around him but he doesnt careHe picks up his best friend at the local sceneHe wraps it up in the corner of a magazine oh yeahPre-chorus:(All night) God he...
- Dog Eat Dog
DOG EAT DOGIt'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 wig...
- Fiction
I can't decideI don't knowWhich way to go?The options multiplyThe choices growWhich way to go?What should I buy?What should I be?Which way to go?(Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief)So much comes at youToo much for meWhich...
- Lucky Girl
I'm a lucky girlI found my friendI've been all around the worldMission ImpossibleChasing the rainbow's endWise guysShy guysAnd sly lover boysWith big bad bedroom eyes ...I never loved a man I trustedAs far as I could...
- Hollywood
((So Far So Good))
I live in HollywoodRight beneath the starsI walk around, they driveIncredibly long black carsI think that they could learnA thing or two from meWhile money is buying your houseIt's selling your sanityThey take love...
- Help Me
HELP MEJoni MitchellHelp meI think I'm fallingIn love againWhen I get that crazy feeling, I knowI'm in trouble againI'm in trouble'Cause you're a rambler and a gamblerAnd a sweet-taIking-ladies manAnd you love your...
- You Turn Me On Im A Radio
YOU TURN ME ON, I'M A RADIOJoni MitchellIf you're driving into town with a dark cloud above youDial in the number who's bound to love youOh, honey, you turn me on, I'm a radioI'm a country station, I'm a little bit...
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?Where have all the flowers gone?Gone to young girls, every one!When will they ever learn, when will they ever...
- Free Man In Paris
FREE MAN IN PARISJoni Mitchell"The way I see it," he said "You just can't win it... Everybody's in it for their own gain You can't please 'em all There's always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good...
- Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow TaxiThe Neighborhood - Peak Position #29 on 8-8-70 - This song was also a hit by Joni Mitchell peaking at # 24 on 1-25-75 (It was a live version) They paved paradise And put up a parking lot...
- Sisotowbell Lane
Sisotowbell LaneNoah is fixing the pump in the rainHe brings us no shameWe always knew that he always knewUp over the hillJovial neighbors come down when they willWith stories to tellSometimes they doYes sometimes we...
- The Pirate Of Penance
PENANCE CRANE:The pirate anchored on a WednesdayAnd why he came to port I wonderTo see a lady so my friends sayShe dances for the sailorsIn a smoky cabaret bar undergroundDown in a cellar in a harbor townI know he...
- Marcie
Marcie in a coat of flowersSteps inside a candy storeReds are sweet and greens are sourStill no letter at her doorSo she'll wash her flower curtainsHang them in the wind to dryDust her tables with his shirt andWave...
- Song To A Seagull
Fly silly seabirdNo dreams can possess youNo voices can blame youFor sun on your wingsMy gentle relationsHave names they must call meFor loving the freedomOf all flying thingsMy dreams with the seagulls flyOut of...
- Cactus Tree
There's a man who's been out sailingIn a decade full of dreamsAnd he takes her to a schoonerAnd he treats her like a queenBearing beads from CaliforniaWith their amber stones and greenHe has called her from the...
- I Had A King
I had a king in a tenement castleLately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brownHe's taken the curtains downHe's swept with the broom of contemptAnd the rooms have an empty ringHe's cleaned with the tearsOf an...
- The Dawntreader
Peridots and periwinkle blue medallionsGilded galleons spilled across the ocean floorTreasure somewhere in the sea and he will find whereNever mind their questions there's no answer forThe roll of the harbor wakeThe...
- Night In The City
Light up light upLight up your lazy blue eyesMoon's up nights upTaking the town by surpriseNight time night timeDay left an hour agoCity light timeMust you get ready so slowThere are places to come from and places to...
- Michael From Mountains
Michael wakes you up with sweetsHe takes you up streets and the rain comes downSidewalk markets locked up tightAnd umbrellas bright on a grey backgroundThere's oil on the puddles in taffeta patternsThat run down the...
- Nathan La Franeer
I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the planeAnd though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet againThe driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirrorI read his name and it was plainly...
- I Don't Know Where I Stand
Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it thereSunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hairPicked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest handWanted to send it, but I don't know where I...
- Roses Blue
I think of tears, I think of rain on shinglesI think of rain, I think of roses blueI think of Rose, my heart begins to trembleTo see the place she's lately gotten toGotten to, gotten toShe's gotten to mysterious...
- Tin Angel
Varnished weeds in window jarsTarnished beads on tapestriesKept in satin boxes areReflections of love's memoriesLetters from across the seasRoses dipped in sealing waxValentines and maple leavesTucked into a...
- The Gallery
When I first saw your galleryI liked the ones of ladiesThen you began to hang up meYou studied to portray meIn ice and greensAnd old blue jeansAnd *** in the rosesThen you got into funny scenesThat all your work...
- The Fiddle And The Drum
And so once againMy dear Johnny my dear friendAnd so once again you are fightin' us allAnd when I ask you whyYou raise your sticks and cry, and I fallOh, my friendHow did you comeTo trade the fiddle for the drumYou...
- That Song About The Midway
I met you on a midway at a fair last yearAnd you stood out like a ruby in a black man's earYou were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar stringsYou were playing like a devil wearing wings, wearing...
- Chelsea Morning
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heardWas a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the wordsIt came a-reeling up like Christmas bells, and rapping up like pipes and drumsOh, won't...
- I Think I Understand
Daylight falls upon the path, the forest falls behindToday I am not prey to dark uncertaintyThe shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blindAnd tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to meI think I...
- Both Sides, Now
Rows and floes of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons ev'rywhereI've looked at clouds that wayBut now they only block the sunThey rain and snow on ev'ryoneSo many things I would have doneBut...
- Songs To Aging Children Come
Through the windless wells of wonderBy the throbbing light machineIn a tea leaf trance or underOrders from the king and queenSongs to aging children comeAging children, I am onePeople hurry by so quicklyDon't they...
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
When Charlie speaks of LesterYou know someone great has goneThe sweetest swinging music manHad a Porkie Pig hat onA bright starIn a dark ageWhen the bandstands had a thousand waysOf refusing a black man admissionBlack...
- The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey
Of the darkness in men's mindsWhat can you sayThat wasn't marked by historyOr the T.V. news todayHe gets away with murderThe blizzards come and goThe stab and glare and buckshotOf the heavy heavy snowIt comes and...
- A Chair In The Sky
The rain slammed hard as barsIt caught me--by surpriseMutts of the planetAnd shook me down for alibisI'm waitingFor the keeper to release meDebating this sentenceBiding my timeIn memoriesOf old friends of mine ...In...
- Sweet Sucker Dance
I almost closed the doorCancelled on everything we opened up forTonight the shadows had their sayTheir sad notions of the wayThings really areDamn these blues!They'd turn my heart against youSince I was fool enoughTo...
- The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
I'm down to a roll of dimesI'm stalking the slot that's hotI keep hearing bells all around meJingling in the lucky jackpotsThey keep you tantalizedThey keep you reaching for your walletHere in fools' paradise!I talked...
- God Must Be A Boogie Man
He is threeOne's in the middle unmovedWaitingTo show what he seesTo the other twoTo the one attacking--so afraidAnd the one that keeps trying to love and trustAnd getting himself betrayedIn the plan--ohThe divine...
- Love Puts On A New Face
He said "You think you're a lady But I know you're a womanWe are as young as the night"I said "No telephones ringingNo company comingJust the lap of the lake and the firelight"And the lonely loon and the crescent...
- Face Lift
I went so numb on Christmas dayI couldn't feel my hands or feetI shouldn't have comeShe made me payFor gleaming with Donald down her streetShe put blame on himAnd shame on meShe made it all seem so tawdry and...
- No Apologies
The general offeredNo apologiesHe said "The soldiers erred in judgementThey should have hired a hooker"No apologiesto the outraged JapaneseNo "Sorry little girl"The pigs just took herTireskids and teethmarksWhat...
- Stay In Touch
This is really somethingPeople will be enviousBut our roles aren't clearSo we musn't rushStill, we're burning brightlyClinging like fire to fuelI'm grinning like a foolStay in touchWe should stay in touchOh! Stay in...
- Lead Balloon
"Kiss my ass!" I saidand I threw my drinkTequila trickling Down his business suitMust be the Irish bloodFight before you thinkTurn it nowYou can't cowtowYou can't undo itIt's his townAnd that went downLike a lead...
- Man From Mars
Since I lost youI can't get through the dayWithout at least one big boo-hooThe pain won't go awayWhat am I gonna do?Man from MarsThis time you went too farI fall apartEverytime I think of youSwallowed by the darkThere...
- Taming The Tiger
I stepped outside to breathe the airAnd stare up at the starsBig dipper hanging thereOver the rented carOver the rented carI'm a runaway from the record bizFrom the hoods in the hood and the whiny white kidsBoring!The...
- My Best To You
So here's to youMay your dreams come trueMay old father timeNever be unkindAnd through the yearsSave your smiles and your tearsThey're just souvenirsThey'll make music in your heartRemember thisEach new day is a...
- Harlem In Havana
At the far end of the midwayby the double ferris wheelThere's a band that plays so snakeyYou can't help how you feelEmmie Mae ran awayWith a man as dark as nightYou can see him, if you go thereSecond trumpet to the...
- The Crazy Cries Of Love
It was a dark and a stormy nightEveryone was at the wing-dingThey weren't the wing-ding typeSo they went up on the train bridge Where the weather was howlingAnd oh, oh, my myWhen that train comes rolling byNo paper...
- Carey
The wind is in from AfricaLast night I couldn't sleepOh, you know it sure is hard to leave here CareyBut it's really not my homeMy fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feetAnd I miss my clean white linen and...
- My Old Man
My old manHe's a singer in the parkHe's a walker in the rainHe's a dancer in the darkWe don't need no piece of paperFrom the city hallKeeping us tied and trueMy old manKeeping away my bluesHe's my sunshine in the...
- This Flight Tonight
Look out the left the captain saidThe lights down there, that's where we'll landI saw a falling star burn upAbove the Las Vegas sandsIt wasn't the one that you gave to meThat night down south between the trailersNot...
- The Last Time I Saw Richard
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68,And he told me all romantics meet the same fate somedayCynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafeYou laugh, he said you think you're immune, go look at your...
- California
Sitting in a park in Paris, FranceReading the news and it sure looks badThey won't give peace a chanceThat was just a dream some of us hadStill a lot of land to seeBut I wouldn't stay hereIt's too old and cold and...
- All I Want
I am on a lonely road and I am travelingTraveling, traveling, travelingLooking for something, what can it beOh I hate you some, I hate you someI love you someOh I love you when I forget about meI want to be strong I...
- River
It's coming on ChristmasThey're cutting down treesThey're putting up reindeerAnd singing songs of joy and peaceOh I wish I had a river I could skate away onBut it don't snow hereIt stays pretty greenI'm going to make...
- Blue
Blue, songs are like tattoosYou know I've been to sea betoreCrown and anchor meOr let me sail awayHey Blue, here is a song for youInk on a pinUnderneath the skinAn empty space to fill inWell there're so many sinking...
- Little Green
Born with the moon in CancerChoose her a name she will answer toCall her green and the winters cannot fade herCall her green for the children who've made herLittle green, be a gypsy dancerHe went to CaliforniaHearing...
- Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
Cold Blue Steel out of moneyOne eye for the beat policeSweet Fire calling"You can't deny meNow you know what you need"Underneath the jungle gymHollow-grey-fire-escape-thiefLooking for Sweet FireShadow of Lady...
- You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
If you're driving into townWith a dark cloud above youDial in the numberWho's bound to love youOh honey you turn me onI'm a radioI'm a country stationI'm a little bit cornyI'm a wildwood flowerWaving for...
- Banquet
Come to the dinner gongThe table is laden highFat bellies and hungry little onesTuck your napkins inAnd take your shareSome get the gravyAnd some get the gristleSome get the marrow boneAnd some get nothingThough...
- Barangrill
Three waitresses all wearingBlack diamond earringsTalking about zombiesAnd Singapore slingsNo trouble in their facesNot one anxious voiceNone of the crazy you getFrom too much choiceThe thumb and the satchelOr the...
- Let The Wind Carry Me
Papa's faith is peopleMama she believes in cleaningPapa's faith is in peopleMama she's always cleaningPapa brought home the sugarMama taught me the deeper meaningShe don't like my kick pleat skirtShe don't like my...
- See You Sometime
Where are you nowAre you in some hotel roomDoes it have a view?Are you caught in a crowdOr holding some honeyWho came on to you?Why do you have to be so jiveO.K. hang up the phoneIt hurtsBut something survivesThough...
- For The Roses
I heard it in the wind last nightIt sounded like applauseDid you get a round resounding for youWay up hereIt seems like many dim years agoSince I heard that face to faceOr seen you face to faceThough tonight I can...
- Lesson In Survival
Lesson in SurvivalSpinning out on turnsThat gets you toughGuru books-the BibleOnly a reminderThat you're just not good enoughYou need to believe in somethingOnce I could in our loveBlack roadDouble yellow lineFriends...
- Woman Of Heart And Mind
I am a woman of heart and mindWith time on her handsNo child to raiseYou come to me like a little boyAnd I give you my scorn and my praiseYou think I'm like your motherOr another lover or your sisterOr the queen of...
- Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune)
No tongue in the bellAnd the fishwives yellBut they might as well be muteSo you get to keep the picturesThat don't seem like muchCold white keys under your fingersNow you're thinking"That's no substituteIt just don't...
- Electricity
The Minus is lovelessHe talks to the landAnd the leaves fallAnd the pond over-icesShe don't know the system, PlusShe don't understandShe's got all the wrong fuses and splicesShe's not going to fix it upToo easyThe...
- Blonde In The Bleachers
The blonde in the bleachersShe flips her hair for youAbove the loudspeakersYou start to fallShe follows you homeBut you miss living aloneYou can still hear sweet mysteriesCalling youThe bands and the roadiesLovin' 'em...
- Dreamland
It's a long, long way from CanadaA long way from snow chainsDonkey vendors slicing coconutNo parkas to their nameBlack babies covered in baking flourThe cook's got a carnival songWe're going to lay down someplace...
- Off Night Backstreet
Maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say I love youI don't know--Loving without trustingYou get--frostbite and sunstrokeI wish I felt nothing!You pimp--laughing and strutting her to my chartered seatYour old off night...
- Paprika Plains
It fell from midnight skiesIt drummed on the galvanizedIn the washroom, women tracked the rainUp to the make-up mirrorLiquid soap and grassAnd Jungle Gardenia crashOn Pine-Sol and beer ...It's stifling in here ...I've...
- Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
I'm Don Juan's reckless daughterI came out two days on your tailThose two bald-headed days in NovemberBefore the first snowflakes sailOut on the vast and subtle plains of mysteryA split tongue spirit talksNoble as a...
- The Silky Veils Of Ardor
I am a poor wayfaring strangerTraveling through all these highs and lowsI heard there was no sicknessAnd no toil or dangerJust mercy and plentyWhere peaceful waters flowWhere peaceful waters flowCome all you fair and...
- Talk To Me
There was a moon and a street lampI didn't know I drank such a lot'Till I pissed a tequila-anacondaThe full length of the parking lot!Oh, I talk too looseAgain I talk too open and freeI pay a high price for my open...
- Otis And Marlena
Marlena under Foster GrantsShe's undercover from the dawns advanceThat girl is travel-drainedAnd the neon mercury vapor stainedMiami skyIt's red as meatIt's a cheap pink roseOtis in the driver's seatWatches the street...
- Jericho
I'll try to keep myself open up to youThat's a promise that I made to loveWhen it was new"Just like Jericho" I said"Let these walls come tumbling down"I said it like I finally found the wayTo keep the good feelings...
- Cotton Avenue
A red sun came rolling down a grey skyAnd the frogs and dogs and night birds thenStarted up singing sweet country lullabyYou see that patch of city lights-Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue-That's where I'm going to...
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