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Joni Mitchell - Hejira

submitted 5/23/2008 9:45:22 AM by atropos319 |
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"I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now I'm returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed
I see something of myself in everyone
Just at this moment of the world
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

You know it never has been easy
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen...
Strains of Benny Goodman
Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees
I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
I know - no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

Well I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality - to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
There's the hope and the hopelessness
I've witnessed thirty years
We're only particles of change I know, I know
Orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view
When I'm always bound and tied to someone
White flags of winter chimneys
Waving truce against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank
From the window of a hotel room

I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way"

Pure brilliance.

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Videos submitted by atropos319:
Anais Mitchell - Old Fashioned Hat (live)
Anais Mitchell - Namesake (live)
Cheryl Wheeler - Little Kids (live)
NHPR Folk Show - El Helwa Di and Handsome Molly
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Joni Mitchell - Don't Interrupt the Sorrow
Bjork - The Boho Dance (Joni Mitchell tribute)
Joni Mitchell - My Old Man (live '70)
The Band, Neil Young, & Joni Mitchell - Helpless (The Last Waltz)
Joni Mitchell - Woman of Heart and Mind (audio only)
Joni Mitchell - Nathan la Franeer (audio only)
Joni Mitchell - Night in the City
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries (live '94)
Joni Mitchell & Tomoyasu Hotei - Sex Kills (Live, '94)
Joni Mitchell - California (live)
Joni Mitchell - Marcie
John Lee Hooker - I Gambled All of Your Love (live '79, audio only)
John Lee Hooker - This Land is Nobody's Land
John Lee Hooker - Deep Blue Sea
John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go
John Lee Hooker - Sally Mae
John Lee Hooker - Red House (audio only)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues


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