Genius Meanings
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Joni Mitchell – Carey (Live) [2022 Remaster]
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[Intro] / I'd like to reintroduce you to this wonderful group / The L.A. Express / Mr. Scott / Larry Nash on piano / Robben Ford on guitar / Max Bennett on bass / And John Guerin
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Joni Mitchell – Carey
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Carey, a calypso about dalliance on Crete, had a definite festival flavor, but with a twist at the end.
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Joni Mitchell – Carey [Miles of Aisles]
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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
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Joni Mitchell – River
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“River” is a Christmas folk song by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue. Although never released as a single, it has become one of Mitchell’s most recorded songs.
The song is
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Joni Mitchell – Carey (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – You've Changed
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[Verse 1] / You've changed / The sparkle in your eyes is gone / Your smile is just a careless yawn / You're breaking my heart, you've changed / [Verse 2] / You've changed / Your
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Sarah Jay Hawley – Carey
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[Verse 1] / The wind is in from Africa / Last night I couldn't sleep / You know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey / But it's not my home / My fingernails are filthy / I got
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Joni Mitchell – Blue
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The title track on Joni Mitchell’s masterpiece 1971 album, Blue. The song touches on depression, general sadness and the ways people use to escape from them told over a beautiful
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Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Fly silly seabird / No dreams can possess you / No voices can blame you / For sun on your wings / My gentle relations / Have names they must call me / For loving the
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Joni Mitchell – Let The Wind Carry Me (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Papa's faith is people / Mama, she believes in cleaning / Papa's faith is in people / Mama, she's always cleaning / Papa brought home the sugar / Mama taught me the
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Joni Mitchell – Conversation (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / He comes for conversation / I comfort him sometimes / Comfort and consultation / He knows that's what he'll find / I bring him apples and cheeses / He brings me songs
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Joni Mitchell – Trouble Child (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Up in a sterilized room / Where they let you be lazy / Knowing your attitude's all wrong / And you gotta change and that's not easy / Dragon shining with all values
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Joni Mitchell – My Old Man
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Joni wrote this song about a fantasy of domesticity that harkens back to her relationship with Graham Nash, which ended while Joni was on a trip to Europe after her announcement
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Joni Mitchell – A Case of You
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Mitchell’s poetic ode to an inescapable love, one she knows could be wrong for her, but is now in her soul, has become one of her most enduring classics. It has never gone out of
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Joni Mitchell – Nathan La Franeer (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane / And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again / The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the
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Joni Mitchell – California
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“California” jumps along in short bursts, the lyrics giving snapshots of Joni’s European itinerary. Then comes the flowing chorus with its hint of tango, its plaintive pedal steel
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Joni Mitchell – Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire (Live) [2022 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / Cold blue steel out of money / One eye open for the beat police / Sweet fire calling, "You can't deny me / Now you know what you need" / [Verse 2] / Underneath the
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Joni Mitchell – Little Green
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Joni Mitchell wrote “Little Green” in 1966, five years before the release of Blue. Considered one of the most personal tracks on the album, this bittersweet folk ballad was written
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Joni Mitchell – For Free (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – The Circle Game [Miles of Aisles]
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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 / And the seasons they go
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Joni Mitchell – Raised On Robbery (2022 Remaster)
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[Intro] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – All I Want
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[Verse 1] / I am on a lonely road and I am traveling / Traveling, traveling, traveling / Looking for something, what can it be? / Oh, I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you
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Joni Mitchell – The Last Time I Saw Richard
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“The Last Time I Saw Richard” is the final song on Joni Mitchell’s seminal album, Blue. In many ways, the song functions as a microcosm of the album as a whole, illustrating the
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi (Live)
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[Verse 1] / They paved paradise and put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot / [Chorus] / Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what
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