NO APOLOGIES Joni Mitchell

The general offered No apologies He said "The 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

THE CRAZY CRIES OF LOVE Joni Mitchell

stormy night Everyone was at the wing-ding They weren't the wing-ding type So they went up on the train bridge Where the weather was howling And oh, oh, my my When that train comes rolling by No

GOOD FRIENDS Joni Mitchell

Little Italy-- We could talk it up 'til the block gets up Swapping stories Sitting around in some all night zoo Watching it run like a movie Synchronized--like magic Good friends you and me No

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Jersey Rises over Little Italy We could talk it up 'til the block gets up Swapping stories Sitting around in some all night zoo Watching it run like a movie Synchronized like magic Good friends you and me No

Good Friends (Demo) Joni Mitchell

Jersey Rises over Little Italy We could talk it up 'til the block gets up Swapping stories Sitting around in some all night zoo Watching it run like a movie Synchronized like magic Good friends you and me No

Bad Dreams Joni Mitchell

good In the great plan You cannot be trusted Do you even know you're lying It's dangerous to kid yourself You go deaf and dumb and blind You take with such entitlement You give bad attitude You have no

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

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue- That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no

I Wish I Were In Love Again Joni Mitchell

I miss the bites I wish I were in love again The broken dates The endless waits The lovely loving and the hateful hates The conversations with the flying plates I wish I were in love again No

THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread-- The able-bodied

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

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread-- The able-bodied have shipped

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

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread The able bodied have shipped

TURBULENT INDIGO Joni Mitchell

He'd drag them through Turbulent Indigo "I'm a burning hearth," he said "People see the smoke But no one comes to warm themselves Sloughing off a coat And all my little landscapes All my yellow

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

No demands Just pleasurable sensations Hand in hand No far reaching plans No, no-hand in hand Well I keep on trying to understand Daylight bright How come I keep moving From man to man to man

SOLID LOVE Joni Mitchell

We got a chance Hot dog darlin' We got a chance No more, no more Fly-by-night romance We got this solid love Love has always made me Feel so uneasy I couldn't relax and just be me More like some

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through all these highs and lows I heard there was no sickness And no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty Where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters

STAY IN TOUCH Joni Mitchell

Stay in touch In touch During times like these The wise or influential They can bear the imperfections They can keep the money No doubt about it No doubt that's essential No doubt that's always

THE GALLERY Joni Mitchell

ice and greens And old blue jeans And naked in the roses Then you got into funny scenes That all your work discloses "Lady, don't love me now I am dead I am a saint, turn down your bed I have no

I HAD A KING Joni Mitchell

leather and lace I can never become that kind - (CHORUS) I had a king in a salt-rusted carriage Who carried me off to his country for marriage too soon Beware of the power of moons There's no

THE WOLF THAT LIVES IN LINDSEY Joni Mitchell

derelicts or ladies of the night They're weeds for yanking out of sight If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No

MAN FROM MARS Joni Mitchell

Man from Mars This time you went too far I fall apart Everytime I think of you Swallowed by the dark There is no center to my life now No grace in my heart Man from Mars This time you went too

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance I'm up all night in the studios And you're up early on your ranch You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail While the sun

MARCIE Joni Mitchell

Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter at her door So she'll wash her flower curtains Hang them in the wind to dry Dust her tables

TWO GREY ROOMS 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

You've Changed Joni Mitchell

You've forgotten the words I love you And the memories that we've shared You've ignored all the stars up above you I can't realize that you ever cared You've changed You're not the angel I once knew No

Two Grey Rooms (Demo) 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

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

Funeral Joni Mitchell

[Charles:] "No man, no big church! 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!"

NIGHT RIDE HOME Joni Mitchell

4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks This 4th of July Night ride home I love the man beside me We love the open road No

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

Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks This 4th of July Night ride home I love the man beside me We love the open road No

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

THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS Joni Mitchell

own She patrols that fence of his To a latin drum And the hissing of summer lawns Darkness Wonder makes it easy Darkness With a joyful mask Darkness Tube's gone, darkness, darkness, darkness No

FREE MAN IN PARIS Joni Mitchell

people asking for my time They're trying to get ahead They're trying to be a good friend of mine I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive There was nobody calling me up for favors And no

TWISTED Joni Mitchell

of my head The way he described it He said I'd be better dead than live I didn't listen to his jive I knew all along That he was all wrong And I knew that he thought I was crazy but I'm not Oh no

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

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

He said "You think you're a lady But I know you're a woman We are as young as the night" I said "No telephones ringing No company coming Just the lap of the lake and the firelight" And the lonely

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

Pat's Solo Joni Mitchell

This is my solo...Excuse me Sir...would you please take your seat, I'm playing my solo... no I'm serious can't you see I'm playing a solo here?...

THE PRIEST Joni Mitchell

words ran dry Behind the lash and the circles blue He looked as only a priest can, thru And his eyes said me and his eyes said you And my eyes said, let us try He said, "You wouldn't like it here No

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

Judgement of the Moon and Stars Joni Mitchell

No tongue in the bell And the fishwives yell But they might as well be mute So you get to keep the pictures That don't seem like much Cold white keys under your fingers Now you're thinking

Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) Joni Mitchell

No tongue in the bell And the fishwives yell But they might as well be mute So you get to keep the pictures That don't seem like much Cold white keys under your fingers Now you're thinking "That's no substitute

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

girls that you've got German Measles Honey, tell them you've got germs I hope you'll be thinking of me Because I'll be thinking of you While I'm traveling home alone Tell those girls that you've got Joni

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

Only a little Indian band Come down from some windy mesa No women to make them food and child No expressions on their faces I'm low in a helicopter And the wind from whirling blades Flaps their woven

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

Stormy Weather Joni Mitchell

Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all of the time Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't