| Loving is touching souls. |
Joni Mitchell, |
A Case Of You |
| The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Windfall |
| Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Chelsea Morning |
| Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy? |
Joni Mitchell, |
Songs To Aging Children Come |
| You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Borderline |
| During times like these, the wise are influential. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Banquet |
| Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Dog Eat Dog |
| Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Tax Free |
| The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Windfall |
| The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Pirate Of Penance |
| Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Banquet |
| Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Song To A Seagull |
| We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Carey |
| We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Circle Game |
| The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Blonde In The Bleachers |
| The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Morning Morningtown |
| They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Twisted |
| I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. |
Joni Mitchell, |
California |
| I could drink a case of you. |
Joni Mitchell, |
A Case Of You |
| Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone? |
Joni Mitchell, |
Big Yellow Taxi |
| Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator. |
Joni Mitchell, |
The Last Time I Saw Richard |
| Some get the gravy, some get the gristle. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Banquet |
| She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Roses Blue |
| They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Big Yellow Taxi |