Joni Mitchell

“If you're smart or rich or luckyMaybe you'll beat the laws of manBut the inner laws of spiritAnd the outer laws of natureNo man can”

“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.”

“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”

“There'll be icicles and birthday clothesAnd sometimes there'll be sorrow”

“So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.”

“everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow”

“I 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”

“You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fireYou've got to spread your light like blazes all across the skyThey're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expireNot till you burn up every passion, not even when you dieCome on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell itIf you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell itCondemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feelThat broken trees and elephant ivories conceal”

“Love is touching souls.”

“Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.”

“We are stardust, we are golden,We are billion year old carbon,And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

“we are stardust, billion year old carbon. we are golden, caught in the devil's bargain.”

“Oh 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 feetOh I would still be on my feet”

“But you know it's hard to tellWhen you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's realBut you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel”

“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.”

“There's a man who's been out sailingIn a decade full of dreamsAnd he takes her to a schoonerAnd he treats her like a queenBearing beads from CaliforniaWith their amber stones and greenHe has called her from the harborHe has kissed her with his freedomHe has heard her off to starboardIn the breaking and the breathingOf the water weedsWhile she was busy being free”

“I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.”

“Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand ”

“It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all”

“you dont know what you got till its gone”

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

“We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”

“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.”

“I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...”

“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. ”

“Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.”

“Won't you stayWe'll put on the dayAnd we'll talk in present tenses”

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

“Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.”

“people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.”

“We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.”