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41 " Art is short for artificial…so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation…In a way it’s a lie to get you to see the truth. "
― Joni Mitchell
42 " 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 some Oh I love you when I forget about me I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby Do you want to take a chance On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby Well, come on All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you too All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause - Life is our cause When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws Do you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby So I hurt you too Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling It's the unraveling And it undoes all the joy that could be I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun I want to be the one that you want to see I want to knit you a sweater Want to write you a love letter I want to make you feel better I want to make you feel free I want to make you feel free "
― Joni Mitchell ,
43 " we are stardust, billion year old carbon. we are golden, caught in the devil's bargain. "
44 " I have a tremendous joie de vivre... alternating with irritability of course. "
45 " Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to shareA dream that you love someoneA dream that the wars are done "
46 " Rain comes from the east one nightWe watch it comeTo hang like beaded curtainsTill the morning sunWater dripping from our clothesYou with raindrops on your noseAsk me sadly "Please don't go away now"Till the rain is done, I say"I'll stay now"Rain outside but inside we don't mind at allShadows by the fire slowly climb and fallKisses fade and leave no traceWhispers vanish into spaceThe dawn will send me on a chase to nowhereWhy cry as if I were the first to go thereAnd I know I shouldn't be hereYes, I know I should go homeBut that eastern rain drones in my brainAnd I'm so all alone, so all aloneMorning comes up from the eastWe watch it comeAnd far away now rolls the ancient rain God's drumYou with daybreak in your eyesAfraid to speak for telling liesI watch you search for some reply to lend meBut when the rain is doneThere's no pretending"Eastern Rain" from Second Fret Sets "
47 " Big Yellow TaxiThey paved paradisePut up a parking lotWith a pink hotel, a boutiqueAnd a swinging hot spotDon't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got till it's gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lotThey took all the treesPut 'em in a tree museumAnd they charged the peopleA dollar and a half just to see 'emDon't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got till it's gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lotHey farmer, farmerPut away the DDT nowGive me spots on my applesBut leave me the birds and the bees, pleaseDon't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got till it's gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lotLate last nightI heard the screen door slamAnd a big yellow taxiTook away my old manDon't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got till it's gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lotI said, "Don't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got till it's gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lot"They paved paradisePut up a parking lotThey paved paradisePut up a parking lot "
48 " Peridots and periwinkle blue medallionsGilded galleons spilled across the ocean floorTreasure somewhere in the sea and he will find whereNever mind the questions there's no answer forThe roll of the harbor wakeThe songs that the rigging makesThe taste of the spray he takesAnd he learns to giveHe aches and he learns to liveHe stakes all his silverOn a promise to be freeMermaids live in coloniesAll his sea dreams come to meCity satins left at home I will not need themI believe him when he tells of loving meSomething truthful in the sea all lies will find youLeave behind your streets he said and come to meCome down from the neon lightsCome down from the tourist sightsRun down till the rain delightsYou do not hideSunlight will renew your prideSkin white by skin goldenLike a promise to be freeDolphins playing in the seaAll his sea dreams come to meSeabird I have seen you fly above the pilingsI am smiling at your circles in the airI will come and sit by you while he lies sleepingFold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to shareA dream that you love someoneA dream that the wars are doneA dream that you tell no one but the gray seaThey'll say that you're crazyAnd a dream of a babyLike a promise to be freeChildren laughing out to seaAll his sea dreams come to me "
49 " It’s just that I suffer very eloquently "
50 " And the seasons they go'round and'roundAnd the painted ponies go up and downWe're captive on the carousel of timeWe can't return we can only look behindFrom where we cameAnd go round and round and roundIn the circle game "
― Joni Mitchell , The Circle Game
51 " I was only a folk singer for about two years…. By that time, it wasn’t really folk music anymore. It was some new American phenomenon. Later, they called it singer/songwriters. Or art songs, which I liked best. Some people get nervous about that word. Art. They think it’s a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, … the word art has never lost its vitality. "
52 " I never saw a sky so green, never so blue "
53 " You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire. "
54 " And the seasons they go round and round "
55 " We are stardust, we are golden And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. "
56 " Just before our love got lost you said"I am as constant as a northern star"And I said "Constantly in the darknessWhere's that at?If you want me I'll be in the bar"On the back of a cartoon coasterIn the blue TV screen lightI drew a map of CanadaOh CanadaWith your face sketched on it twiceOh you're in my blood like holy wineYou taste so bitter and so sweetOh I could drink a case of you darlingStill I'd be on my feetoh I would still be on my feetOh I am a lonely painterI live in a box of paintsI'm frightened by the devilAnd I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraidI remember that time you told me you said"Love is touching souls"Surely you touched mine'Cause part of you pours out of meIn these lines from time to timeOh, you're in my blood like holy wineYou taste so bitter and so sweetOh I could drink a case of you darlingAnd I would still be on my feetI would still be on my feetI met a womanShe had a mouth like yoursShe knew your lifeShe knew your devils and your deedsAnd she said"Go to him, stay with him if you canBut be prepared to bleed"Oh but you are in my bloodYou're my holy wineYou're so bitter, bitter and so sweetOh, I could drink a case of you darlingStill I'd be on my feetI would still be on my feet "
57 " shut me up and talk to me "
58 " Who you gonna get to do the dirty workWhen all the slaves are free? "
59 " We are stardust. "
60 " I'm a pretty good cookSitting on my groceriesCome up to my kitchenI'll show you my best recipeI try and I try but I can't save a centI'm up after midnight, cookingTrying to make my rentI'm rough but I'm pleasin'I was raised on robbery "
