30 Of The Prettiest Joni Mitchell Lyrics That Will Melt Your Heart

“Blue Songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue”

— Joni Mitchell,

“It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river…”

— 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 my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Behind our eyes. Calendars of our lives. Circled with compromise. Sweet bird of time and change. You must be laughing, up on your feathers laughing. Golden in time. Cities under the sand. Power ideals and beauty fading in everyone's hand. Give me some time, I feel like I'm losing mine out here on th…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Just a little green, like the colour when the spring is born. There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow, just a little green. Like the nights when the Northern lights perform. There'll be icicles and birthday clothes, and sometimes there'll be sorrow.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Oh you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet”

— Joni Mitchell,

“And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to tr…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Help me, I think I’m falling, In love with you, Are you going to let me go there by myself, That’s such a lonely thing to do, Both of us flirting around, Flirting and flirting, Hurting too, We love our lovin', But not like we love our freedom.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Oh won’t you stay, We’ll put on the day, And we’ll talk in present tenses.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley Lately he's taken to saying I'm crazy and blind He lives in another time Ladies in gingham still blush While he sings them of wars and wine But I in my leather and lace I can never become that kind.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Light up light up, light up your lazy blue eyes Moon's up nights up taking the town by surprise Night time night time day left an hour ago City light time must you get ready so slow There are places to come from and places to go Night in the city looks pretty to me Night in the city looks fine Music…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Fly silly seabird no dreams can possess you No voices can blame you for sun on your wings My gentle relations have names they must call me For loving the freedom of all flying things My dreams with the seagulls fly out of reach out of cry.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you Dial in the number who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on, I'm a radio I'm a country station, I'm a little bit corny I'm a wide open flower, waiting for you I'm a broadcasting tower waving for you.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance I'm up all night in the studios And you're up early on your ranch You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail While the sun is ascending And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel There's no comprehending Just how close t…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of land to see But I wouldn't stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here. Oh, but California California, I'm coming home I'm goi…”

— 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 Hung down his head and cried”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all of the time Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't get my poor self together I'm weary all the time All the time”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Sometimes I'm happy Sometimes I'm blue My disposition depends on you I never mind the rain from the skies As long as I have the sun in your eyes Sometimes I love you Sometimes I hate you When I hate you It's because I love you That's how I am So what can I do I'm happy when I'm with you.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“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 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, want to get up…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way that you feel as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way. But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.”

— Joni Mitchell,

“It came to pass Like lightening striking from above Electric flash Like lightening striking from above Struck by precious love Precious, precious love So hopeless and so inspired Why do you dream flat tires? When you dream flat tires You dream flat tires”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day I just disappeared And I took these two grey rooms up here With a view When you walk by Below my…”

— Joni Mitchell,

“Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode All we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold”

— Joni Mitchell,