 Genius Meanings
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Joni Mitchell – This Flight Tonight
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This Flight Tonight, Joni has walked out on her man, is flying West on a jet, and now regrets the decision.
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Nazareth – This Flight Tonight [Homecoming]
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"Look out the left," the captain said / "The lights down there, that's where we'll land" / Saw a falling star burning / High above the Las Vegas sand / It wasn't the one that you
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Nazareth – This Flight Tonight
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"Look out the left," the captain said / "The lights down there, that's where we'll land" / Saw a falling star burning / High above the Las Vegas sand / It wasn't the one that you
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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 – 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 – 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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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 – Michael from Mountains (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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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Joni Mitchell – Ladies of the Canyon (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Trina wears her wampum beads / She fills her drawing book with lines / Sewing lace on widows weeds / And filigree on leaf and vine / Vine and leave are filigree / And
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Circle Game (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Yesterday a child came out to wander / Caught a dragonfly inside a jar / Fearful when the sky was full of thunder / And tearful at the falling of a star / [Chorus
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Joni Mitchell – Chelsea Morning (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning / And the first thing that I heard / Was a song outside my window / And the traffic wrote the words / It came ringing up like
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Joni Mitchell – I Don't Know Where I Stand (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there / Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair / Picked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest
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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 – 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 – 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 – Both Sides Now (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Rows and floes of angel hair / And ice cream castles in the air / And feather canyons everywhere / I've looked at clouds that way / [Verse 2] / But now they only block
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Joni Mitchell – My Old Man (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / My old man / He's a singer in the park / He's a walker in the rain / He's a dancer in the dark / [Chorus] / We don't need no piece of paper / From the city hall
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Phoebe Bridgers) – Nothing New (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]
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Swift mentions “Nothing New” in the journals she released alongside her 2019 record Lover. In the journal, she reveals she wrote it for her 2012 record Red — she later included it
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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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Jackson Browne – Fountain of Sorrow
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This is a story song. In it, the singer comes across an old photo of a lover, and that sparks a series of memories. This is classic Jackson Browne stuff: lending universal appeal
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Taylor Swift – hoax
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An appropriate final track to an album filled with melancholy and darkness, “hoax” narrates the struggles Taylor endures in a toxic relationship. Although she has been driven to
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