TALK TO ME Joni Mitchell

Oh, I talk too loose Again I talk too open and free I pay a high price for my open talking Like you do for your silent mystery Come and talk to me Please talk to me Talk to me, talk to me Mr.

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel so good I don't

MY SECRET PLACE Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone--but You're a special case For my special place For my secret

My Secret Place (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone but You're a special case For my special place For my secret place

(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care Joni Mitchell

You're so square baby You're so square Oh, you don't like greasy diners You don't like sleazy bands You just want to go To a movie show And sit there holding hands You're so square Baby I don't care You

WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND Joni Mitchell

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think I'm like your mother Or another lover or

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

in the porch light like slick black cellophane Will you still love me When I call you up when I get back to town I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm

ALL I WANT Joni Mitchell

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 some Oh I love you when I forget about me

TROUBLE CHILD Joni Mitchell

your own Where is the lion in you to defy him When you're this weak And this spacey...

GOOD FRIENDS Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you-- Maybe once or twice a year-- I think nothing would suit me better (Right now) Than some downtown atmosphere ...

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized

Good Friends (Demo) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized

CHEROKEE LOUISE Joni Mitchell

Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel In the Broadway bridge We're crawling on our knees We've got flashlights and batteries We've got cold cuts from the fridge Last year about this time We used to

SWEET SUCKER DANCE Joni Mitchell

They'd turn my heart against you Since I was fool enough To find romance I'm trying to convince myself This is just a dance!

Sweet Sucka Dance Joni Mitchell

door Cancelled on everything we opened up for Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way Things really are Damn these blues They'd turn my heart against you Since I was fool enough To

CAREY Joni Mitchell

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 tar on my feet And I miss

TIN ANGEL Joni Mitchell

are Reflections of love's memories Letters from across the seas Roses dipped in sealing wax Valentines and maple leaves Tucked into a paperback Guess I'll throw them all away I found someone to

GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN Joni Mitchell

He is three One's in the middle unmoved Waiting To show what he sees To the other two To the one attacking--so afraid And the one that keeps trying to love and trust And getting himself betrayed

LAST CHANCE LOST Joni Mitchell

Last chance lost-- In the tyranny of a long good-bye Last chance lost-- We talk of us with deadly earnest eyes Last chance lost-- We talk of love in terms of sacrifice and compromise Last chance

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT Joni Mitchell

Look out the left the captain said The lights down there, that's where we'll land I saw a falling star burn up Above the Las Vegas sands It wasn't the one that you gave to me That night down south

THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe You laugh, he said you think you're immune

Last Time I Saw Richard Joni Mitchell

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you're immune

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

And we'll wear it 'till the night comes Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall Blue, red, green and gold to

If Joni Mitchell

If you can wait And not get tired of waiting And when lied about Stand tall Don't deal in lies And when hated Don't give in to hating back Don't need to look so good Don't need to talk too wise.

Answer Me, My Love Joni Mitchell

Answer me Oh my love Just what sin have I been guilty of Tell me how I came to lose your love Please answer me sweetheart You were mine yesterday I believed that love was here to stay Won't

HELP ME Joni Mitchell

Help me I think I'm falling In love again When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler And a sweet-taIking-ladies man And you

Don't Go to Strangers Joni Mitchell

Build your dreams To the stars above But when you need someone true to love Don't go to strangers Lover come to me Play with fire Get your fingers burned But when there's no place left to turn Don't go

YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES Joni Mitchell

You dream flat tires With a jack and a spare you're there Trying to get to where love is Coming in on a wing and a prayer Trying to get to where love is 'Cause love is precious love You said it

THE SAME SITUATION Joni Mitchell

said you loved me "Do you think this can be real?"

CONVERSATION Joni Mitchell

He comes for conversation I comfort him sometimes Comfort and consultation He knows that's what he'll find I bring him grapes and cheeses He brings me songs to play He sees me when he pleases

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

somewhere in the sea and he will find where Never mind their questions there's no answer for The roll of the harbor wake The songs that the rigging makes The taste of the spray he takes And he learns to

A BIRD THAT WHISTLES Joni Mitchell

house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to

A Bird That Whistles (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to

LET THE WIND CARRY ME Joni Mitchell

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 deeper meaning She don't like my kick pleat

Don't Worry 'Bout Me Joni Mitchell

I'll get along Forget about me Just be happy my love Let's say that our little show is over And so the story ends Why not call it a day the sensible way And still be friends Look out for yourself That

A CHAIR IN THE SKY Joni Mitchell

The rain slammed hard as bars It caught me--by surprise Mutts of the planet And shook me down for alibis I'm waiting For the keeper to release me Debating this sentence Biding my time In memories

The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Joni Mitchell

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me?

The Sire of Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me?

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I am Lakota Broken Moon pity me I am Lakota Grave Shadows stretching Lakota Oh pity me I am Lakota Weak Grass pity me I am Lakota Faithful Rocks pity me I am Lakota Meek Standing water Lakota Oh pity

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

Lesson in Survival Spinning out on turns That gets you tough Guru books-the Bible Only a reminder That you're just not good enough You need to believe in something Once I could in our love Black

BLUE Joni Mitchell

Blue, songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea betore Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in

OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET Joni Mitchell

You pimp--laughing and strutting her to my chartered seat Your old off night back street It's been stinger to stinger, darling It's been heart to heart You still keep me from finishing Any new love

COURT AND SPARK Joni Mitchell

Love came to my door With a sleeping roll And a madman's soul He thought for sure I'd seen him Dancing up a river in the dark Looking for a woman To court and spark He was playing on the sidewalk

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

It takes cheerful resignation Heart and humility That's all it takes A cheerful person told me Nobody's harder on me than me How could they be And, nobody's harder on you than you Betsy's blue

LAKOTA Joni Mitchell

-- Kennelled in metered boxes Red dogs in debt to you I am Lakota! Lakota!

THE GALLERY Joni Mitchell

When I first saw your gallery I liked the ones of ladies Then you began to hang up me You studied to portray me In ice and greens And old blue jeans And naked in the roses Then you got into funny

ELECTRICITY Joni Mitchell

The Minus is loveless He talks to the land And the leaves fall And the pond over-ices She don't know the system, Plus She don't understand She's got all the wrong fuses and splices She's not going

FICTION Joni Mitchell

I can't decide I don't know Which way to go? The options multiply The choices grow Which way to go? What should I buy? What should I be? Which way to go?

Fiction (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I can't decide I don't know Which way to go The options multiply The choices grow Which way to go What should I buy What should I be Which way to go Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief So much comes at you Too