Genius Meanings
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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 – Little Green (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Born with the moon in Cancer / Choose her a name she will answer to / Call her green and the winters cannot fade her / Call her green for the children who've made her
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Jessica Molaskey – Little Green
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[Verse 1] / Born with the moon in Cancer / Choose her a name she will answer to / Call her green and the winters cannot fade her / Call her green for the children who have made her
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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 – The Arrangement (2021 Remaster)
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[Chorus] / You could have been more than a name on the door / On the thirty-third floor in the air / More than a credit card / Swimming pool in the backyard / [Verse 1] / While you
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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 – 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 – Blue (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Blue / Songs are like tattoos / You know I've been to sea before / Crown and anchor me / Or let me sail away / [Verse 2] / Hey, blue / There is a song for you / Ink on
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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 – Big Yellow Taxi
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“Big Yellow Taxi” is Joni Mitchell’s call to action to prevent the damage we are doing to the environment. It refers to lack of human awareness; only too late we recognise the
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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 – Cactus Tree (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / There's a man who's been out sailing / In a decade full of dreams / And he takes her to a schooner / And he treats her like a queen / Bearing beads from California
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Joni Mitchell – Morning Morgantown (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / When morning comes to Morgantown / The merchants roll their awnings down / The milk trucks make their morning rounds / In morning Morgantown / We'll rise up early, with
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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 – 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 – Blue Boy (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Lady called the blue boy, love / She took him home / Made himself an idol, yes / So he turned to stone / Like a pilgrim she travelled / To place her flowers / Before
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Birdy – Little Blue
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[Verse 1] / Little Blue finds me again / Creeps over my heart / Like a shadow on the hills / Little Blue, you have me again / Breathless in the dark / Like trodden daffodils / [
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Joni Mitchell – Tin Angel (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Varnished weeds in window jars / Tarnished beads on tapestries / Kept in satin boxes are / Reflections of love's memories / Letters from across the seas / Roses dipped
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Joni Mitchell – River (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / It's coming on Christmas / They're cutting 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
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Joni Mitchell – That Song about the Midway (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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 playin' on the horses; you were playin' on the guitar strings
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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 – The Dawntreader (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions / Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor / Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where / Never mind their
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