Two Grey Rooms (Demo) Joni Mitchell

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 I just disappeared And I took these two

TWO GREY ROOMS Joni Mitchell

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 I just disappeared And I took these two

Two Grey Rooms (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

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 I just disappeared And I took these two

Good Friends (Demo) 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...

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Demo) Joni Mitchell

You better leave now, take what you need, the past is pastWhatever you wanna keep, you better grab it fastOver there's your orphan with her gunCryin' like a fire in the sunLook out the saints are c...

MICHAEL FROM MOUNTAINS Joni Mitchell

Michael wakes you up with sweets He takes you up streets and the rain comes down Sidewalk markets locked up tight And umbrellas bright on a grey background There's oil on the puddles in taffeta patterns

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel so good I don't

SHADOWS AND LIGHT Joni Mitchell

Threatened by all things Devil of cruelty Drawn to all things Devil of delight Mythical devil of the ever-present laws Governing blindness, blindness and sight Suntans in reservation dining rooms

I HAD A KING Joni Mitchell

I had a king in a tenement castle Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown He's taken the curtains down He's swept with the broom of contempt And the rooms have an empty ring He's cleaned

THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

only joy around We'd be the only joy around The only joy in town He's the only joy I've found All day At night these streets are empty Where does everybody go Where are the brash and tender rooms

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

And be the only joy around We'd be the only joy around The only joy in town He's the only joy I've found All day At night these streets are empty Where does everybody go Where are the brash and tender rooms

THE BOHO DANCE Joni Mitchell

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations I was a hopeful in rooms like this When I was working cheap

Harry's House-Centerpiece Joni Mitchell

continental suite And people twenty stories down Colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb And business men in button downs Press into conference rooms

Harry's House / Centerpiece Joni Mitchell

continental suite And people twenty stories down Colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb And business men in button downs Press into conference rooms

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

NATHAN LA FRANEER Joni Mitchell

and the wishing wells With gangs and girly shows The ghostly garden grows The cars and buses bustled thru the bedlam of the day I looked thru window-glass at streets and Nathan grumbled at the grey

MARCIE Joni Mitchell

for going Sees a show and rides back down Down along the Hudson River Past the shipyards in the cold Still no letter's been delivered Still the winter days unfold Like magazines Fading in dusty grey

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue-

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

"A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and 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

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and 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

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

come and sit by you while he lies sleeping Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share A dream that you love someone A dream that the wars are done A dream that you tell no one but the grey

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

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

FURRY SINGS THE BLUES Joni Mitchell

Propped up in his bed With his dentures and his leg removed And Ginny's there For her kindness and Furry's beer She's the old man's angel overseer Pawn shops glitter like gold tooth caps In the grey

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

Chasing some prize down And a hawk was playing with him Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes He had those same eyes - just like yours Under your dark glasses Privately probing the public rooms

TWISTED Joni Mitchell

out of my head But I said dear doctor I think that it's you instead Because I have got a thing That's unique and new To prove it I'll have The last laugh on you 'Cause instead of one head I got two

SNAKES AND LADDERS Joni Mitchell

faces Young-fogie-financiers Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders See In the crimes of time How the seasons steal away How the rungs are shattered First you're green then you're grey

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

seeing other faces Young fogie financiers Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders See In the crimes of time How the seasons steal away How the rungs are shattered First you're green then you're grey

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

Waiting for the walking green Across the street he stood And he played 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

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

the spooks of memories rattle Ghosts of the future Phantoms of the past Rattle, rattle, rattle In the spoon and the glass Is it possible to learn How to care and yet not care-- Since love has two

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter I came out two days on your tail Those two bald-headed days in November Before the first snowflakes sail Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery A split tongue spirit

THE CRAZY CRIES OF LOVE Joni Mitchell

going to be a long one Cuz oh, oh, my my When that train comes rolling by No paper thin walls, no folks above No one else can hear The crazy cries of love In the back booth of an all night cafe Two

Funeral Joni Mitchell

[Swede:] "I know, but you're going to get a big funeral in this country, and they'll play your music for two days" [Charles:] "Who's going to do that?"

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

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

from the subway On the music midnight makes To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone In taxi horns and brakes Now Charlie's down in Mexico With the healers So the sidewalk leads us with music To two

THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

She plants her garden in the spring She does the winter shovelling Tokyo Rose on the radio She says she's leavin' but she don't go Out of the blue--just passin' thru A young flight sergeant On two

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

She plants her garden in the spring She does the winter shovelling Tokyo Rose on the radio She says she's leavin' but she don't go Out of the blue--just passin' thru A young flight sergeant On two weeks

If Joni Mitchell

If you can dream And not make dreams your master If you can think And not make intellect your game If you can meet With triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same If you can force

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

treble clef She plants her garden in the spring She does the winter shovelling Tokyo Rose on the radio She says she's leavin' but she don't go Out of the blue just passin' thru A young flight sergeant On two

CALIFORNIA Joni Mitchell

I said "a week, maybe two, Just until my skin turns brown Then I'm going home to California" California I'm coming home Oh will you take me as I am Strung out on another man California I'm coming

THE REOCCURING DREAM Joni Mitchell

Dreamer I'm afraid I can't go below two million Dream on Life would be easy if I had that new appliance Food processors for all of us Who cares! Recognize this?

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

place you dreamed of retiring to Who cares Recognize this Dreamer I know that glamour is sexy Oh dream on dreamer What could go wrong Dream on Who cares Recognize this Dreamer I'm afraid I can't go below two

CAREY Joni Mitchell

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey But it's really not my home My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet And I miss...

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at cloud that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. So man...

FREE MAN IN PARIS Joni 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 business The...

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 lov...

MY BEST TO YOU Joni Mitchell

So here's to you May your dreams come true May old father time Never be unkind And through the years Save your smiles and your tears They're just souvenirs They'll make music in your heart Remembe...

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar." On the back of a cartoon...

AMELIA Joni Mitchell

I was driving across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was the hexagram of the heavens it was the strings of my guitar Ame...