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

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

SWEET SUCKER DANCE Joni Mitchell

I almost closed the door Cancelled on everything we opened up for Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way Things really are Damn these blues!

Sweet Sucka Dance Joni Mitchell

I almost closed the door Cancelled on everything we opened up for Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way Things really are Damn these blues They'd turn my heart against you Since

UNDERNEATH THE STREETLIGHT Joni Mitchell

I swear on the streetlight on the corner Shoving back the shadows!

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

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

The lonely coyote calls In the woodlands footprints of the deer In the barrooms poor drunk bastard falls In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years You think we're sleeping but Quietly like rattlesnakes and

LAKOTA Joni Mitchell

coyote calls In the woodlands--footprints of the deer In the barrooms--poor drunk bastard falls In the courtrooms--deaf ears--sixty years You think we're sleeping--but Quietly like rattlesnakes and

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

All day I face the barren waste Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

All day I face the barren waste Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan 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

BE COOL Joni Mitchell

If you're worried or uncertain If your feelings are hurtin' You're a fool if you can't keep cool Charm 'em Don't alarm 'em Keep things light Keep your worries out of sight And play it cool Play

NIGHT IN THE CITY Joni Mitchell

Light up light up Light up your lazy blue eyes Moon's up nights up Taking the town by surprise Night time night time Day left an hour ago City light time Must you get ready so slow There are

DOWN TO YOU Joni Mitchell

Everything comes and goes Marked by lovers and styles of clothes Things that you held high And told yourself were true Lost or changing as the days come down to you Down to you Constant stranger

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

COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE Joni Mitchell

"Money" cold shadows reply Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked Corridors spit on prayers and pleas Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire Black soot of Lady Release "Come with me I know the way" she says

SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM Joni Mitchell

Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joni Mitchell

Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Turning and turning Within the widening grey The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The centre cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

It takes cheerful resignation Heart and humility That's all it takes A cheerful person told me Nobody's harder on me than me How could they be And, nobody's harder on you than you Betsy's blue

SONGS TO AGING CHILDREN COME Joni Mitchell

Through the windless wells of wonder By the throbbing light machine In a tea leaf trance or under Orders from the king and queen Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one People

Love Or Money Joni Mitchell

where's my own shining hour He's the well kept secret of the underground He's in debt to the company store Because his only channelled aspiration Was getting back that girl he had before He's got stacks and

SEX KILLS Joni Mitchell

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?

SONG TO A SEAGULL Joni Mitchell

For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach out of cry I came to the city And

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

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words It came a-reeling up like Christmas bells, and rapping up like pipes

Hana Joni Mitchell

She sees what must be done So she takes off her coat Rolls up her sleeves And starts pitchin' in.

WILLY Joni Mitchell

he'd love to live with me But for an ancient injury That has not healed He said I feel once again Like I gave my heart too soon He stood looking thru the lace At the face on the conquered moon And

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

STAY IN TOUCH Joni Mitchell

Stay in touch In touch Part of this is permanent Part of this is passing So we must be loyal and wary Not to give away too much Til we build a firm foundation And empty out old habits Old habits

I THINK I UNDERSTAND Joni Mitchell

Daylight falls upon the path, the forest falls behind Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind And tasted sunlight as my fear came

COME IN FROM THE COLD Joni Mitchell

Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

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 road Double yellow line Friends and

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES Joni Mitchell

own fathers Bridget got that belly By her parish priest We're trying to get things white as snow All of us woe-begotten-daughters In the streaming stains Of the Magdalene laundries Prostitutes and

The Magdalene Laundries Joni Mitchell

their own fathers Bridget got that belly By her parish priest We're trying to get things white as snow All of us woe-begotten-daughters In the streaming stains Of the Magdalene laundries Prostitutes and

A Case Of You (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

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 darkness Wheres that at?

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar."

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

REFUGE OF THE ROADS Joni Mitchell

I met a friend of spirit He drank and womanized And I sat before his sanity I was holding back from crying He saw my complications And he mirrored me back simplified And we laughed how our perfection

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

A Case Of You Joni Mitchell

" And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

I've got a blue motel room With a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head Will you still love me When I call you up when I'm down Here in Savannah it's pouring rain Palm trees

HEJIRA Joni Mitchell

there's no need to explain It's just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now I'm returning to myself These things that you and

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

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you

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

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you tell me Who

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT Joni Mitchell

guides in the sailors Oh starbright, starbright You've got the lovin' that I like, all right Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight You got the touch so gentle and

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

them They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline Shine your light on me Miss Liberty Because as soon as this ferry boat docks I'm headed to the church To play Bingo Fleece me with the gamblers

THE CIRCLE GAME Joni Mitchell

Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like, when you're older, must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and