Love Or Money Joni Mitchell

Because his only channelled aspiration Was getting back that girl he had before He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme Describing what it is to lose He's got some just for laughs He's got some for love

COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE Joni Mitchell

Cold Blue Steel out of money One eye for the beat police Sweet Fire calling "You can't deny me Now you know what you need" Underneath the jungle gym Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief Looking for Sweet

Love Joni Mitchell

I'm just sounding brass And tinkling cymbals without love- Love suffers long- Love is kind!

YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES Joni Mitchell

It came to pass Like lightening striking from above Electric flash Just like lightening striking from above Struck by precious love Precious, precious love So hopeless and so inspired Why do you

LOVE (CORINTHIANS II:13) Joni Mitchell

Although I speak in tongues Of men and angels I'm just sounding brass And tinkling cymbals without love-- Love suffers long-- Love is kind!

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

real good On his clarinet, for free Now me I play for fortunes And those velvet curtain calls I've got a black limousine And two gentlemen Escorting me to the halls And I play if you have the money

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

This Place Joni Mitchell

Money, money, money... Money makes the trees come down It makes mountains into molehills Big money kicks the wide wide world around.

WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND Joni Mitchell

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think I'm like your mother Or another lover or

CHINESE CAFE/UNCHAINED MELODY Joni Mitchell

bore her But, I could not raise her Nothing lasts for long-- Nothing lasts for long-- Nothing lasts for long-- Down at the Chinese Cafe We'd be dreaming on our dimes We'd be playing-- "Oh my love

Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Joni Mitchell

child's a stranger I bore her But, I could not raise her Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe We'd be dreaming on our dimes We'd be playing "Oh my love

HELP ME Joni Mitchell

Help me I think I'm falling In love again When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler And a sweet-taIking-ladies man And you

IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET Joni Mitchell

"I love to dance" And I told him, "They don't take chances They seem so removed from romance" "They've been broken in churches and schools And molded to middle class circumstance" And we were rolling

GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN Joni Mitchell

He is three One's in the middle unmoved Waiting To show what he sees To the other two To the one attacking--so afraid And the one that keeps trying to love and trust And getting himself betrayed

WILLY Joni Mitchell

Willy is my child, he is my father I would be his lady all my life He says 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

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

said "No telephones ringing No company coming Just the lap of the lake and the firelight" And the lonely loon and the crescent moon What a pocket of heavenly grace But in France they say Everyday Love

HEJIRA Joni Mitchell

I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away There's comfort in melancholy When there's no need to explain It's just as natural

Strong And Wrong Joni Mitchell

Men love war! That's what history' s for. History... A mass--murder mystery...

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

musician In those days they put him in an Underdog position Cellars and chittlins' When Lester took him a wife Arm and arm went black and white And some saw red And drove them from their hotel bed Love

JERICHO Joni Mitchell

I'll try to keep myself open up to you That's a promise that I made to love When it was new "Just like Jericho" I said "Let these walls come tumbling down" I said it like I finally found the way

SHINY TOYS Joni Mitchell

right on time Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk--here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's a boy and his money

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

toys right on time Shiny toys right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's a boy and his money

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

BLUE Joni Mitchell

Blue, songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea betore Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

To buy myself a mandolin And I saw the long white dress of love On a storefront mannequin Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars...

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

FACE LIFT Joni Mitchell

I went so numb on Christmas day I couldn't feel my hands or feet I shouldn't have come She made me pay For gleaming with Donald down her street She put blame on him And shame on me She made it

Dog Eat Dog (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

It's dog eat dog I'm just waking up The dove is in the dungeon And the white washed hawks pedal hate and call it love Dog Eat Dog Holy hope in the hands of Snakebite evangelists and racketeers And big

JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN Joni Mitchell

The station master's shuffling cards Boxcars are banging in the yards Jealous Iovin'Il make you crazy If you can't find your goodness 'Cause you lost your heart I went looking for a cause Or

DOG EAT DOG Joni Mitchell

DOG EAT DOG It's dog eat dog--I'm just waking up The dove is in the dungeon And the white-washed hawks pedal hate and call it love Dog Eat Dog Holy hope in the hands of Snakebite evangelists and

RAISED ON ROBBERY Joni Mitchell

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel He was drinking for diversion He was thinking for himself A little money riding on the Maple Leafs Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves She says...

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

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

TALK TO ME Joni Mitchell

Or we could talk about power About Jesus and Hitler and Howard Hughes Or Charlie Chaplin's movies Or Bergman's nordic blues Please just talk to me Any old theme you choose Just come and talk to me

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?

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

Preacher preaching love like vengeance Preaching love like hate Calling for large donations Promising estates Rolling lawns and angel bands Behind the pearly gates You know, he will have his in this

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Push a button to escape Preacher on the tube crying Lord There's evil in this land Evangelist Rock and roll music Cast down these dope fiends And there noisy bands Damn their souls Preacher preaching love

NUMBER ONE Joni Mitchell

Shall we shower you with flowers Or shall we shun ya When your race is run? Will we shower you with flowers Or will we shun ya When your race is run?

BORDERLINE Joni Mitchell

Every bristling shaft of pride Church or nation Team or tribe Every notion we subscribe to Is just a borderline Good or bad, we think we know As if thinking makes things so!

Number One (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

To be a winner People cheer And people gasp People want your autograph When you're a winner Run, run, run, run Let's see you run We'll be betting by the starting gun Shall we shower you with flowers Or

REFUGE OF THE ROADS Joni Mitchell

refuge of the roads In a highway service station Over the month of June Was a photograph of the earth Taken coming back from the moon And you couldn't see a city On that marbled bowling ball Or

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

I followed with the sideshows to another town And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds You were betting on some lover, you were shaking up the dice And I thought I saw you cheating once or

THE PRIEST Joni Mitchell

all-should I make them mine The sermons, the hymns and the valentines And he asked for truth and he asked for time And he asked for only now Now the trials are trumpet scored Oh will we pass the test Or

I THINK I UNDERSTAND Joni Mitchell

dark uncertainty The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind And tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to me I think I understand Fear is like a wilderland Stepping stones or

Hana Joni Mitchell

Hana has a special knack For getting people back on the right track 'Cause she knows They all matter So she doesn't argue or flatter She doesn't fight the slights She takes it on the chin Like a champ

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

gaze--vigilant on wires Where cattle graze the grasses Far from the digits of business hours The moon clock wanes and waxes-- But here all time is stripped away Nowhere on these plains Is a sprout or

Comes Love Joni Mitchell

Comes a rain storm Put your rubbers on your feet Comes a snow storm You can get a little heat Comes love Nothing can be done Comes a fire Firemen come and rescue me Blow a tire You can patch

SOLID LOVE Joni Mitchell

We got a break Unbelievable We got a break Right in the middle of this Hollywood heartache We got this solid love All around the town Good hearts are going under Love bandits con and plunder

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

RIVER Joni Mitchell

down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money