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Joni Mitchell, Blue (1971) Lyrics1

1. All I Want And it undoes all the joy that could be I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun I am on a lonely road and I am traveling I want to be the one that you want to see Traveling, traveling, traveling I want to knit you a sweater Looking for something, what can it be Want to write you a love letter Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love I want to make you feel better you some I want to make you feel free Oh I love you when I forget about me I want to make you feel free

I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living 2. My Old Man Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive My old man I want to wreck my stockings in some juke He's a singer in the park box dive He's a walker in the rain Do you want - do you want - do you want to He's a dancer in the dark dance with me baby We don't need no piece of paper Do you want to take a chance From the city hall On maybe finding some sweet romance with Keeping us tied and true me baby My old man Well, come on Keeping away my blues

All I really really want our love to do He's my sunshine in the morning Is to bring out the best in me and in you too He's my fireworks at the end of the day All I really really want our love to do He's the warmest chord I ever heard Is to bring out the best in me and in you Play that warm chord, play and stay baby I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you We don't need no piece of paper I want to renew you again and again From the city hall Applause, applause - Life is our cause Keeping us tied and true When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws My old man Do you see - do you see - do you see how you Keeping away my blues hurt me baby So I hurt you too But when he's gone Then we both get so blue Me and them lonesome blues collide The bed's too big I am on a lonely road and I am traveling The frying pan's too wide Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling Then he comes home It's the unraveling And he takes me in his loving arms

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And he tells me all his troubles Just a little green And he tells me all my charms Like the nights when the Northern lights We don't need no piece of paper perform From the city hall There'll be icicles and birthday clothes Keeping us tied and true And sometimes there'll be sorrow No, my old man Keeping away my blues Child with a child pretending Weary of lies you are sending home But when he's gone So you sign all the papers in the family name Me and them lonesome blues collide You're sad and you're sorry but you're not The bed's too big ashamed The frying pan's too wide Little green have a happy ending

My old man Just a little green He's a singer in the park Like the color when the spring is born He's a walker in the rain There'll be crocuses to bring to school He's a dancer in the dark tomorrow We don't need no piece of paper Just a little green From the city hall Like the nights when the Northern lights Keeping us tied and true perform No, my old man There'll be icicles and birthday clothes Keeping away my lonesome blues And sometimes there'll be sorrow

3. Little Green 4. Carey Born with the moon in Cancer The wind is in from Africa Choose her a name she will answer to Last night I couldn't sleep Call her green and the winters cannot fade Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here her Carey Call her green for the children who've made But it's really not my home her My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my Little green, be a gypsy dancer feet And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy He went to California French cologne Hearing that everything's warmer there So you write him a letter and say "Her eyes Oh Carey get out your cane are blue" And I'll put on some silver He sends you a poem and she's lost to you Oh you're a mean old Daddy Little green he's a non-conformer But I like you fine

Just a little green Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will Like the color when the spring is born Buy you a bottle of wine There'll be crocuses to bring to school And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and tomorrow smash our empty glasses down

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Let's have a round for these freaks and these 5. Blue soldiers A round for these friends of mine Blue are like tattoos Let's have another round for the bright red You know I've been to sea before devil Crown and anchor me Who keeps me in this tourist town Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a for you Come on Carey get out your cane Ink on a pin I'll put on some silver Underneath the skin Oh you're a mean old Daddy An empty space to fill in But I like you Well there're so many sinking now You've got to keep thinking Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam You can make it thru these waves Maybe I'll go to Rome Acid, booze, and ass And rent me a grand piano Needles, guns, and grass And put some flowers 'round my room Lots of laughs lots of laughs But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way The night is a starry dome to go And they're playin' that scratchy Well I don't think so Beneath the Matala Moon But I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you Come on Carey get out your cane I'll put on some silver Blue here is a shell for you We'll go to the Mermaid Café Inside you'll hear a sigh Have fun tonight A foggy lullaby There is your song from me The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep 6. California Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here But it's really not my home Sitting in a park in Paris France Reading the news and it sure looks bad Maybe it's been too long a time They won't Since I was scramblin' down in the street That was just a dream some of us had Now they got me used to that clean white Still a lot of lands to see linen But I wouldn't want to stay here And that fancy French cologne It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh Carey get out your cane Oh but California I'll put on my finest silver We'll go to the Mermaid Café California I'm coming home Have fun tonight I'm going to see the folks I dig I said, Oh, you're a mean old Daddy but I like I'll even kiss a Sunset pig you California I'm coming home But you're out of sight

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I met a redneck on a Grecian isle 7. Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile Look out the left, the captain said But he kept my camera to sell The lights down there that's where we'll land Oh the rogue the red red rogue I saw a falling star burn up He cooked good omelettes and stews Above the Las Vegas sands And I might have stayed on with him there It wasn't the one that you gave to me But my heart cried out for you California That night down south between the trailers Not the early one Oh California I'm coming home That you can wish upon Oh make me feel good rock 'n' roll band Not the northern one I'm your biggest fan That guides in the sailors California I'm coming home Oh starlight, star bright Oh it gets so lonely You've got the lovin' that I like all right When you're walking Turn this crazy bird around And the streets are full of strangers I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight All the news of home you read Just gives you the blues You got the touch so gentle and sweet Just gives you the blues But you've got that look so critical So I bought me a ticket Now I can't talk to you baby I caught a plane to Spain I get so weak Went to a party down a red dirt road Sometimes I think love is just mythical There were lots of pretty people there Up there's a heaven Reading reading Vogue Down there's a town They said "How long can you hang around?" Blackness everywhere and little lights shine I said a week maybe two Oh blackness blackness dragging me down Just until my skin turns brown Come on light the candle in this poor heart of Then I'm going home to California mine

California I'm coming home Oh starlight, star bright Oh will you take me as I am You've got the lovin' that I like all right Strung out on another man Turn this crazy bird around California I'm coming home I shouldn't hove got on this flight tonight

Oh it gets so lonely I'm drinking sweet champagne When you're walking Got the headphones up high And the streets are full of strangers Can't numb you out All the news of home you read Can't drum you out of my mind More about the war They're playing Goodbye baby, Baby Goodbye And the bloody changes Ooh ooh love is blind Oh will you take me as I am? Up go the flaps down go the wheels Will you take me as I am? I hope you got your heat turned on baby Will you? I hope they finally fixed your automobile

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I hope it's better when we meet again baby It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees Starlight, star bright They're putting up reindeer You got the lovin' that I like all right And singing songs of joy and peace Turn this crazy bird around I wish I had a river I could skate away on I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight 9. 8. River Just before our love got lost you said It's coming on Christmas "I am as constant as a northern star" They're cutting down trees And I said "Constantly in the darkness They're putting up reindeer Where's that at? And singing songs of joy and peace If you want me I'll be in the bar" Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on On the back of a cartoon coaster But it don't snow here In the blue TV screen light It stays pretty green I drew a map of Canada I'm going to make a lot of money Oh Canada Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene With your face sketched on it twice Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I could drink a case of you darling I wish I had a river I could skate away on Still I'd be on my feet I made my baby cry oh I would still be on my feet

He tried hard to help me Oh I am a lonely painter You know, he put me at ease I live in a box of paints And he loved me so naughty I'm frightened by the devil Made me weak in the knees And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I remember that time you told me you said I'm so hard to handle "Love is touching souls" I'm selfish and I'm sad Surely you touched mine Now I've gone and lost the best baby 'Cause part of you pours out of me That I ever had In these lines from time to time I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I could drink a case of you darling I wish I had a river And I would still be on my feet I could skate away on I would still be on my feet I made my baby say goodbye I met a woman

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She had a mouth like yours Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so She knew your life sweet She knew your devils and your deeds When you gonna get yourself back on your And she said feet? "Go to him, stay with him if you can Oh and love can be so sweet Love so sweet But be prepared to bleed" Richard got married to a figure skater Oh but you are in my blood And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee You're my holy wine percolator You're so bitter, bitter and so sweet And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on Oh, I could drink a case of you darling And all the house lights left up bright Still I'd be on my feet I'm gonna blow this damn candle out I would still be on my feet I don't want nobody comin' over to my table I got nothing to talk to anybody about 10. The Last Time I Saw Richard All good dreamers pass this way some day Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes dark cafes The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous And he told me all romantics meet the same wings and fly away fate someday Only a phase these dark café days Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you're immune Go look at your eyes they're full of moon You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you All those pretty lies pretty lies When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies Only pretty lies just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer and he pushed Three buttons and the thing began to whirr And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie And she said "Drink up now it's getting' on time to close" "Richard, you haven't really changed" I said It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head You got tombs in your eyes but the songs you punched are dreaming

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