“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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'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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“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,
“Said well I, I I like the cut of your jib I like the way that your face looks When you’re yapping on about him”— The 1975, youtube.com
“And she lays down on her bedroom floor The chemicals that make her laugh Don't seem to be working anymore”— The 1975, play.spotify.com