Skinny Love
de Joni Mitchell
The firmament of tinsel town
Is strung with tungsten stars
Lot's of forty watt successes
He says where's my own shining hour
He's the well kept secret of the underground
He's in debt to the company store
Because his only channelled aspiration
Was getting back that girl he had before
He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme
Describing what it is to lose
He's got some just for laughs
He's got some for love
That mainline to his blues
Some to shed a little light on you and on me
Some to shed a little light on the human story
The wars of pride and property
The rebel irish and the promised land jew
Fighting behind his eyes and over seas
Wounded in action and no ceasefire in view
Brave reporters bring the battles home
But tonight inside that box
Just more bang bang ketchup color to him
Just more twentieth century fox
All because that ghostly girl comes haunting
Just out of reach-outside his bed
And she kicks the covers off his sleep
For the clumsy things he said
She commands his head-she tries his sanity
She demands his head-tonight unknowingly
Vaguely she floats and lacelike
Blown in like a curtain on the night wind
She's nebulous and naked
He wonders where she's been
He grabs at the air because there's nothing there
Her evasiveness stings him
With long legs-long lonely legs
Bruised from banging into things
One day he was standing just outside her door
He was carrying an armload of bright balloons
She just laughed
She said she heard him knocking
And she teased him for the moon
"is one the moon, dear clown,
Tied to a string for me? "
He tried but he could not get it down
For truth or for mystery
He tried but he could not get it down
For love or money
Más canciones de Joni Mitchell
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A Strange Boy
Hejira
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Introduction - Live at Bread & Roses Festival, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 9/2-3/1978
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now
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River
Blue
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Traveling (Hejira) - Demo
Traveling (Hejira) - Demo
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Edith and the Kingpin - Live at Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, 11/20/1975
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Edith and the Kingpin - Live at Music Hall, Boston, MA, 2/19/1976
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Edith and the Kingpin
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
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Edith and the Kingpin - Live at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, NY, 8/25/1979
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Edith and the Kingpin - Live
Shadows and Light
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Edith and the Kingpin - (Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 9, 1979) [2024 Remaster]
The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)
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Both Sides Now
Clouds
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Edith and the Kingpin (Alternate Version) - The Hissing of Summer Lawns Sessions
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
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Edith and the Kingpin - Demo
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
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Help Me
Court and Spark
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The Circle Game
Ladies of the Canyon
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Don't Interrupt the Sorrow - Live at Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, 11/20/1975
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Free Man in Paris
Court and Spark
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Introduction - Live at Music Hall, Boston, MA, 11/21/1975
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
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Court and Spark
Court and Spark