At Last Joni Mitchell

At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a lovely song At last The skies above are blue My heart's wrapped up in clover Ever since the night I looked at you I

WILD THINGS RUN FAST Joni Mitchell

He came She smiled She thought she had him tamed But he was just as wild Eating from her hand at last Wild things run fast In the dark He could see The trap that was lying in her Sweet company

SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM Joni Mitchell

Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are full of passion Without mercy Surely some revelation is at

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joni Mitchell

sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are full of passion Without mercy Surely some revelation is at

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

world Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are full of passion Without mercy Surely some revelation is at

Last Time I Saw Richard Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you're immune

THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe You laugh, he said you think you're immune

LAST CHANCE LOST Joni Mitchell

Last chance lost-- In the tyranny of a long good-bye Last chance lost-- We talk of us with deadly earnest eyes Last chance lost-- We talk of love in terms of sacrifice and compromise Last chance

FOR THE ROSES Joni Mitchell

I heard it in the wind last night It sounded like applause Did you get a round resounding for you Way up here It seems like many dim years ago Since I heard that face to face Or seen you face to

For the Roses (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

I heard it in the wind last night It sounded like applause Did you get a round resounding for you Way up here It seems like many dim years ago Since I heard that face to face Or seen you face to

THE PIRATE OF PENANCE Joni Mitchell

and the birds into chorus) PENANCE: He came again to see her Yes I think they told me it was Saturday THE DANCER: (Ask Penance Crane she was out in her garden she saw us) PENANCE: I was at

TWISTED Joni Mitchell

What's so strange when you know That you're a wizard at three I knew that this was meant to be Now I heard little children Were supposed to sleep tight That's why I got into the vodka one night

FURRY SINGS THE BLUES Joni Mitchell

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 decay They chew the last

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings You were playing like a devil wearing

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

Last night the ghosts of my old ideas Reran on channel five And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul I nearly broke down and cried But the split tongue spirit laughed at me He says, "Your serpent cannot

Dancin' Clown Joni Mitchell

No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woods He's just weak in self-defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense "You're a push down window," says Rowdy Yates "I can run you

Dancin' Clown (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woods He's just weak in self defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense You're a push button window, says Rowdy Yates I can run you

THE CIRCLE GAME Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

THE THREE GREAT STIMULANTS Joni Mitchell

And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones Artifice, brutality and innocence Artifice and innocence No tanks have ever rumbled through these streets and the drone of planes at

The Circle Game (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

Circle Game Joni Mitchell

"Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated

The Three Great Stimulants (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

bored And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones Artifice, brutality and innocence Artifice and innocence No tanks have ever rumbled through these streets and the drone of planes at

Ray's Dad's Cadillac (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Ray's Dad's Cadillac Weekends we'd get Ray's Dad's Cadillac Rock 'n roll in the dashboard Romance in the back of Ray's Dad's Cadillac Ray's dad teaches math Zero I'm a dunce I'm a decimal in his class Last

Both Sides, Now Joni Mitchell

I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it's cloud illusions I recall. I really don't know clouds at all.

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it's cloud illusions I recall. I really don't know clouds at all.

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

You know I'd help her out if I only could Oh, but sometimes the light Can be so hard to find At least the moon at the window-- The thieves left that behind People don't know how to love They taste

A BIRD THAT WHISTLES Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do

A Bird That Whistles (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to

You're My Thrill Joni Mitchell

You're my thrill You do something to me You send chills right through me When I look at you 'Cause you're my thrill You're my thrill How my pulse increases I just go to pieces Every time I look at you

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

THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child "You are the air my flowers breathe" He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring I'm looking at

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child You are the air my flowers breathe He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring I'm looking at

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was standing on a noisy corner Waiting for

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into

The Magdalene Laundries Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene

NOTHING CAN BE DONE Joni Mitchell

graffiti ruins My love Oh I am not old I'm told But I am not young Oh and nothing can be done Don't start My heart Is a smoking gun Oh and nothing can be done I heard you leaving Late last

BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

And a river flowin' free Waitin' up ahead For you and me Cool clear water The nights are cool and I'm a fool Each star is a pool of water Cool water But come the dawn We carry on We won't last

Big Yellow Taxi (2007) Joni Mitchell

Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi come and took away my old man.

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

green tree And a river flowin' free Waitin' up ahead For you and me Cool clear water The nights are cool and I'm a fool Each star is a pool of water Cool water But come the dawn We carry on We won't last

NIGHT IN THE CITY Joni Mitchell

from and places to go Night in the city looks pretty to me Night in the city looks fine Music comes spilling out into the street Colors go flashing in time Take off take off Take off your stay-at-home

CHINESE CAFE/UNCHAINED MELODY Joni Mitchell

roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my 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

Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Joni Mitchell

Birth of rock 'n roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my 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

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

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' flocks I can keep my cool at

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

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

IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER Joni Mitchell

Like day for night And I thought of you I thought of you Dreamer No acid rain Love without pain Impossible Impossible Dreamer In the darkest part of the night Blue shadows conjure you And at

Impossible Dreamer (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

was bright Like day for night And I thought of you I thought of you Dreamer No acid rain Love without pain Impossible Impossible Dreamer In the darkest part of the night Blue shadows conjure you And at

BLACK CROW Joni Mitchell

Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked