| Fear is the wilderland, stepping stones or sinking sand. |
Joni Mitchell, |
I Think I Understand |
| He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Refuge Of The Roads |
| Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Refuge Of The Roads |
| Now old friends are acting strange. They shake their heads, they say I've changed. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Both Sides Now |
| I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out. |
Joni Mitchell, |
This Flight Tonight |
| Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Roses Blue |
| You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Nathan La Franeen |
| He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. |
Joni Mitchell, |
I Had A King |
| We love our loving, but not like we love our freedom. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Help Me |
| A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Three Great Stimulants |
| Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Fiction |
| Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Same Situation |
| Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| Sex sells everything and sex kills. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Sex Kills |
| They paved paradise and put up a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Big Yellow Taxi |
| Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and a blood dimmed tide is loose upon the world. Nothing is sacred, the ceremonious souls, innocence is drowned in anarchy. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
| The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Woman Of Heart And Mind |
| A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Down To You |
| Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Blue |
| We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Three Great Stimulants |
| Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Windfall |
| Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Blue |
| Applause, applause, life is our cause. |
Joni Mitchell, |
All I Want |
| Let light hearts remake us. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Stay In Touch |
| You win the lasting laurels with your laughter. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Roses Blue |