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Joni Mitchell Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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I believe she's referring to her mental health struggles and this seems to be about time spent in a mental health facility. It's poignant and beautiful. Joni ...
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Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now Lyrics
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This song means that there are certain things in life you can never learn about from a book or from other people, like this song suggests, life and love, you ...
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Joni Mitchell - Blue Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - Amelia Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - River Lyrics
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For me, this is a song epitomizes a particular feeling you hold for a particular relationship; a turning point where "things weren't supposed to be this way" ...
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Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Joni Mitchell - California Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - A Strange Boy Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics
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This song, I'm pretty sure, is about how people just knock down land and put up hotels and parking lots and not knowing but they've done till it's done. So ...
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Joni Mitchell - Barangrill Lyrics
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This song is about not just roaming and travelling, but the constant search for authenticity - for people who are "real", and who really understand what life is ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game Lyrics
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It's a really great song about the cycle of life, and being desperate to grow up to fulfill your dreams, only to grow up and lose the grandeur of the dreams ...
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Joni Mitchell - Hejira Lyrics
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The song is about flight from a desperate situation, echoing Muhammed's Hajj from Medina to Mecca. Though in contrast to the desert environment of the original, ...
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Joni Mitchell - Coyote Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Joni Mitchell - Help Me Lyrics
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It's been widey documented that this song, as well as "Free Man in Paris", are about record mogul David Geffin and his free spirited ways during the 70's. "we ...
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Joni Mitchell - Come In From The Cold Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning Lyrics
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Clearly the song expresses those feelings and emotions that run through our minds "the morning after", as we awaken and feel the joy that comes with new love.
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Joni Mitchell - For Free Lyrics
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The music is imbued with the song's subject. The falling melody of the first lines of the verses conveys her dissatisfaction with what they report ('I slept ...
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Joni Mitchell - Blue Boy Lyrics
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-- where the lead characters wore shades). So I think this song is about a guy who wears shades as a way of hiding his insecurity after learning that his ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Gallery Lyrics
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A painted portrait of love. How it has it's ups and downs. How no one is truly perfect. How in the line of work one can do to gain money they start to lose ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard Lyrics
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my favourite joni mitchell song. joni's defending her choice of waiting for perfection, even though it makes her sad at times. she's basically saying 'yeah, i ...
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Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You Lyrics
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She's saying that if he's the equivalent of wine, then she could take a great quantity of him and still be able to function. The phrase is also open to sexual ...
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Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - Woman Of Heart And Mind Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Joni Mitchell - Willy Lyrics
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Convincingly ascribed to her relationship with Graham Nash, nicknamed Willy (for reasons perhaps best left unexplored here), the song examines what seems to be ...
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Joni Mitchell - My Old Man Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - Edith and The Kingpin Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Joni Mitchell - Roses Blue Lyrics
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"Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the violence caused such silence Who are we mistaken - Another mother's breaking Heart is taking over" ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Joni Mitchell - Not to Blame Lyrics
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Not to Blame' is widely believed to be Joni Mitchell's condemnation of Browne as a wife-beater who drove his first wife to suicide and a coward who always says ...
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Joni Mitchell - Little Green Lyrics
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Just a little green (Joni thinks about how vulnerable Kelly is) Like the color when the spring is born (How beautiful and full of hope Kelly is.) There'll be ...
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Joni Mitchell - Conversation Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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Joni Mitchell - Woman Of Heart And Mind Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Joni Mitchell - Cactus Tree Lyrics
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'And her heart is full and hollow, like a cactus tree' - this beautiful metaphor seems to describe the frustration she felt at herself for being so closed off ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line Lyrics
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A song with a dark, dangerous feel to it, something like a pounding fever dream run through with the imagery of African jungle and a packed smoky cellar. The ...
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Joni Mitchell - For The Roses Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Boho Dance Lyrics
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It's a song about looking back from a certain level of success to its more humble, comparatively cash-starved beginnings. In this it echoes Ms Mitchell's ...
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Joni Mitchell - Carey Lyrics
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Although its on the surface just about her travels, there is a lot of longing and emotion in the song as in the rest of the album. She expresses uncertainty ...
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Joni Mitchell - Same Situation Lyrics
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Regardless, it's about a player who's always in the same situation, and a girl (or maybe even a man) who has got themselves in the same situation. "Tethered to ...
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Joni Mitchell - Refuge Of The Roads Lyrics
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To me, this is the ultimate road trip song. It's essentially about a person who society disturbs and who disturbs society as well. As a result, she has this ...
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Joni Mitchell - I Think I Understand Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Joni Mitchell - The Dawntreader Lyrics
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Like a siren with nothing, the lover in this song calls you away from modernity, away from the staged attractions, he calls you into the truth and calls you to ...
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Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light Lyrics
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This is Joni's commentary on the duality of "wrong and right" that characterizes humankind. Man is capable of cruelty and murder (as illustrated by Cain), but ...
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Joni Mitchell - Michael From Mountains Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Joni Mitchell - Sweet Bird Lyrics
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Life is passing by so quickly that it seems shorter than the streak of a meteorite. Embodying time and change in the 'sweet bird' links it to the idiom 'time ...
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Joni Mitchell - Raised On Robbery Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Joni Mitchell - All I Want Lyrics
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This song is about a woman who's been hurt by someone she was once in love with. She still loves that person but has resentment towards them; for something they ...
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Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight Lyrics
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It seems fairly clear that the song's central theme is about strong regret of leaving a lover and wanting to return. “Turn this crazy bird around” I read she ...
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Joni Mitchell - Marcie Lyrics
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2 Comments ... I think this is a song about a holiday romance that meant a lot to this woman called Marcie. She was really in love with the man but he returned ...
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