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A CASE OF YOU

by Joni Mitchell

     Just before our love got lost you said,
     "I am as constant as the northern star."
     and I said, "Constantly in the darkness
     where's that at?
     If you want me I'll be in the bar."
     On the back of a cotton coaster
     in the blue T.V. screen light
     I drew a map of Canada
     Oh Canada
     with your face sketched on it twice.

     In my blood like holy wine
     you taste so bitter and so sweet
     well, I could drink a case of you, darling
     and I would still be on my feet
     I would still be on my feet.

     Oh I am a lonely painter
     I live in a box of paints
     I'm frightened by the devil
     And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid.
     I remember that time you told me
     "Love is touching souls"
     Surely you touched mine
     'Cause part of you pours out of me
     In these lines from time to time.

     My blood
     my holy wine
     tastes so bitter and so sweet
     Well I could drink a case of you, darling
     and I would still be on my feet
     I would still be on my feet

     I met a woman
     She had a mouth like yours
     She knew your devils and your deeds
     and she said, "Go to him, stay with him
     but be prepared to bleed"

     My blood
     my holy wine
     tastes so bitter and so sweet
     Well I could drink a case of you, darling
     and I would still be on my feet
     I would still be on my feet


HONEY

     A little dust never stopped me
     now he liked my shoes I kept
     them on. Sometimes I can hold my
     tongue sometimes not when you
     just skiptolou my darling and you
     know what you're doin so don't even

     You're just too used to my honey
     now
     you're just too used to my honey

     and I think I could leave your
     world if she was the better girl So
     when we died I tried to bribe the
     undertaker cause I'm not sure
     what you're doing or the reasons

     You're just too used to my honey
     now
     you're just too used to my honey

     don't bother coming down I made
     a friend of the western sky don't
     bother coming down You always
     like your babies tight

     turn back one last time love to
     watch those cowboys ride but
     cowboys know that cowgirls ride on
     the Indian side
     and you know what you're doing
     don't even


DAISY DEAD PETALS

     daisy dead petals
     that is her name
     she's in her phone booth phase, so
     underneath the shade of a peppermint tray,
     she can turn it out with a heal on she just rides into town
     knowing what they'll say, knowing they're around the corner.
     Got a crack in, got a crack in some strange places.

     daisy dead petals, that is her name.
     so maybe she tastes like a hamburger maid, well
     these dead petals, honey, brought me here.
     she said, "these dead petals, honey, brought me here."

     dancing on a dime, hearing mother cry,
     maybe she's around the corner.

     got a crack in, got a crack in some strange places.
     on my back with, on my back with some dirty dishes.

     falling down, falling down, all over the river.
     falling down, falling down, falling down.

     wish what i'm feeling could go on like this forever.
     falling down falling down falling down.

     and since we're down might as well stay,
     might as well fry some eggs
     and wave to the shade of the peppermint tray.
     she's a new friend not a skeleton to ride into town.
     knowing what they'll say, knowing she tastes like a hamburger
     maid, but
     "these dead petals, honey, brought me here."
     she said, "these dead petals, honey, brought me here."


SISTER JANET

     Master Shamen I have come
     with my dolly from the shadow side
     with a demon and an Englishman
     I'm my mother
     I'm my son
     nobody else is slipping the blade in easy
     nobody else is slipping the blade in the marmalade

     All the angels all the wizards black and white
     are lighting candles in our hands
     can you feel them touching hands before our eyes
     and I can even see sweet Maryanne

     Sister Janet you have come
     from the woman clothed with the sun
     your veil is quietly becoming none
     call the Wanderer he has gone
     and all those up there are making it look so easy
     with your perfect wings
     a wing can cover all sorts of things


SUGAR

     Don't say morning's come
     Don't say it's up to me
     If I could take 25 minutes
     out of the record books.

     Sugar
     He brings me sugar

     Bobby's collecting bees
     and hammers, he used one on me.
     Cold war with little boys
     Get in with a bubble gum trade...

     And...
     Sugar
     Bring me sugar
     And all the robins bring
     Bring me many things but...

     Sugar
     He brings me sugar
     As far as I can tell
     I've been gone for miles now

     And you know, and I know
     I don't know me very well

     And I know, and you know
     if they found me out.

     Sugar
     He brings me sugar
     And all the robins bring
     They bring me many things but...

     Sugar
     He brings me sugar
     And all the robins bring
     They bring many things but...

     Sugar
     Oh, sugar...

     Sugar
     Ah, Sugar

     Sugar..
     You...
     Ah, ha...
     (fade)


TAKE TO THE SKY

     This House is like Russia
     With Eyes cold and grey
     You got me moving in a circle
     I dyed my hair Red today
     I just want a little passion
     To hold me in the dark
     I know I've got some magic
     buried Deep in my heart yeah
     but my priest says
     You ain't savin no souls
     My father says
     You ain't makin any money
     My Doctor says
     You just took it to the limit
     And here I stand
     With this sword in my hand
     You can say it one more Time
     What you Don't Like
     Let me hear it 1 more time then
     have a seat while I
     take to the sky

     My heart is Like the Ocean
     it gets in the way so
     Close to touching freedom
     then I hear the guards call my Name
     if you don't like me just a little
     Why Do you hang around
     there she goes again
     wearing those purple panties
     there she goes again
     wearing her heart
     there she goes again Why do you
     take it


UPSIDE DOWN

     God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
     God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
     Inside my head the noise
     Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
     You see I'm afraid I'll always be
     Still coming out of my mother upside down

     Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down ?
     Oh I know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
     But my heart it says
     You been shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter, shattered
     And I know you're still a boy
     Still coming out of your mother

     But when you gonna stand on your own ?
     I say the world is sick
     You say "Tell me what that makes us darlin'"
     You see, you always find my faults
     Faster than you find your own
     You say the world is getting rid of her demons
     I say "Baby what have you been smoking ?"

     Well I dreamed, I dreamed...
     I dreamed I loved a black boy
     My daddy would scream
     Oh yeah

     Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down ?
     Any kind of touch I think is better than none even upside down
     But you see I'm tangled up
     Got a kitten, kitten, kitten, kitten in my hair
     Cincinnati, I like the word
     It's the only thing we can seem to turn upside down

     Well I found (found) the secret (secret) to life
     I found (found) the secret to life (secret of life)
     I'm okay when everything is not okay
     I said I found (found) the secret (secret) to life
     I found (found) the secret to life (secret of life)
     I'm okay when everything is not okay
     Is not okay

     Oh, we turn and we turn our little blue world upside down
     I said, don't we love to turn our little blue world baby upside down ?
     Inside my head a voice
     Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
     And it says "Girl you're all the same
     Still coming out of your mothers
     Still coming out of your mothers upside down"


FLYING DUTCHMAN

     Hey kid, I've got a ride for you
     They say your brain is a comic book tattoo
     And you'll never be anything

     "What will you do with your life"
     Oh, that's all you hear from noon till night

     Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
     Where the sea is the sky
     I know the guy who runs the place
     And he's out of sight

     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman, are you out there?

     Straight suits, they don't understand
     She tried, that one with the alligator boots
     But the other side drew her in

     Heart falling fast when she left
     Even the milky way was dressed in black

     Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
     The sea is the sky
     I know the guy who runs the place
     And he's out of sight

     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman

     Cause they can't see what you're born to be
     They can't see me

     They can't be what they can't believe
     They can't see what you see

     Keep the boys spinning in their own little world
     Tie him up so he won't say a word
     They keep the boys spinning in their own little world
     So afraid he'll be what they never were

     Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
     The sea is the sky
     I know the guy who runs the place
     And he's out of sight

     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman, are you out there?
     Flying Duchman

     Cause they can't see
     Cause they can't see
     Cause they can't see
     Are you still out there ?

     They can't      They can't see          They can't see they can't see
     feel me         what I've found out     you know you know
                                             you're jumping from a high jump
     Are you still   They can't see and      Hide your love hide your love
     out there ?     I just move this        So many know you know
                     mountain                but them, oh they can't see

     Cause they can't see

     *The sequence at the end actually has three concurrent parts in the
     middle, right and left of the stereo image, which is why it scans
     a bit strangely written down


HERE IN MY HEAD

     In my head I found you there
     And running around and following me
     But you don't, oh, dare, now.
     But I find that I have, now, more
     Then I ever wanted too

     So maybe Thomas Jefferson wasn't born
     In your backyard like you have said and
     Maybe I'm just the horizon you run to when she had left
     You there, you, all here in my head and
     Running around and calling me come back
     I'll show you the roses and brush off the snow and
     Open their petals again and again and you know that
     Apple green ice cream can melt in your hands I can't so...

     I, I held your hand at the fair and
     Even forgot what time it was
     And even Thomas Jefferson wasn't born
     In your backyard like you have said and
     Maybe I'm just the horizon you run to
     When she has left you and me here alone on the floor,
     You're counting my feathers as the bells toll
     You see the bow and the belt and the girl from the south all
     Fav'rite of mine you know them all well
     And spring brings fresh little puddles that makes it all clear
     makes it all...
     Hey, do you know, hey, do you know, what this is doing to me?
     Here in my head.


BLACK SWAN

     Ride on, Ride on
     Friends of the black swan
     Ride on, Ride on
     Do you know where she's gone?
     Gumdrops and Saturdays, did Eric call by the way?
     He knew, he knew, and he knew where the pillow goes.

     Ride on, Ride on, friends of the black swan
     Ride on, Ride on you know where she's gone
     Buttercups and fishing flies the biggest thickest ever sky.
     I know they know something
     I know, ah!

     Ride on, Ride on, friends of the black swan.
     Ride on, Ride on you know where she's gone?

     Little green men do O.K.
     It's the faerie's revenge they say,
     And gumdrops and Saturdays, did Eric call by the way?

     Mm, la la, ride on, ride on, ride on.

Bachelorette

bachelorette

you climb on rooftops and you

bachelorette

you can turn dust into champagne

you even dream about his name


bachelorette 

the graves are painted painful

bachelorette 

you tried to show him that you can

but you can never rush a man

you must remember

you're a car girl you're a star girl

you are at the door

the tide will turn

there's a window

there's a window 


yeah, you climb on rooftops and you

you tried to show him that you can

but you can never rush a man

yeah, no, say, bachelorette

the things you do girls to your bachelorettes

you thought that 


you must remember

you're a car girl, you're a star girl

you are at the door

the tide will turn

there's a window

there's a window 


bachelorette

you fly alone and then you cry sometimes

there's nothing like it in the world

you'll go to Paris on your own

oh, just bachelorette 

you climb on rooftops and you

bachelorette

you can turn dust into champagne

you even 





Beulah Land

Beulah Land

Got a wasted gun

Liberation man

Some you are sometimes

Got something in that saying

Beulah girl

You better hitch me up 


Got some candy

And sweet saying

Give me religion

And a lobotomy

Beulah land

Beautiful home

Tell me when

I don't need you anymore 


Said that somewhere

You're gonna get something

You're so

You're right in the middle

And then I'm you 

Something is coming back again

I said you

Maybe I don't wanna go

To where you're not 

So... 


Beulah land

Find me one

Place to be

Is by your

Gotta rubber ball

And a crocidile

Gonna float

And pass your home 


And say when, just

Say when, just

Say when...






Cooling


Maybe I didn't like to hear 

but I still can't believe Speed Racer is dead 

so then i thought I'd make some plans 

but fire thought she'd really rather be water instead 


and Peggy got a message for me from Jesus 

and I've heard every word that you have said

and I know I have been driven like the snow

but this is cooling faster than I can

this is cooling faster than I


but do I hate what she is

or do I want to be her

and don't we love something fresh

anything new, a virgin


woman you've got too many brambles

hanging onto these bushes

woman you've got too many brambles

but I always liked a good storm

and always good for a storm


so then love walked up to like

and said I know that you don't like me much

let's go for a ride

this ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree

and is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

these, yes, these kisses


and Peggy got a message for me from Jesus

and I've heard every word that you have said

and I know I have been driven like the snow

but this is cooling faster than I can

hey faster than i can

hey this is cooling 

this is cooling



Merman

go to bed

the priests are dead

now no one can call you back

go to bed

the priests are dead

finally you're on peppermint

at last


he's a merman

he doesn't need your voice

he's a merman


go to bed

dream instead

and you will find him

he's a merman to the knee

doesn't need something you're not willing to give

he's a merman

doesn't need your voice to cross his lands of ice


go to bed

priests are dead

now no one can call you back

go to bed

the priests are dead

finally you found out


who could ever say you're not simply wonderful

who could ever harm you

sleep now

you're my little girl 


go to bed

priests are dead

and come sing it all again


go to bed

past the apple orchard

and you'll feel nice

two can play i said

two can play




Never Seen Blue


the parts in italics i'm not sure of


Some boy you are

To take me by the hand

Through an elevator

Gotta a little red light

That tells you, boy, where the razor's been. 


You said, girl if you think

You can turn that violator

You'll finally be that woman, yes

Finally be that woman 

That's been frozen in the pretty silver gown


And I've never seen blue

Like a blues he drives 

In and around

And through me again

I said I've never seen eyes

like the blues he drives

In and around and through me again

Through me again

Through me again 


Some boy you are are

To wear my color red

To wear it very proudly 

And wear it like a lady

Who knows how to cross her legs

Where the purty's been 


I've never seen blue

Like the blues he drives
In and around and though me again

Said i've never seen eyes

like the blues he drives

In and around and through me again

Through me again

Through me again 


Sad now that I am

Say goodbye to the rosewood

Sad...





Purple People (Christmas in Space)

well hey do you do judo when they surround you

a little mental yoga will they disappear

it's grim but never dubious as motives go

no matter what it takes she promises a show 


thunder wishes it could be the snow

wishes it could be as loud as she can be

these gifts are here for her, for you, for me


i watch me be this other thing and never know

if i'm marooned or where the purple people go

and lily white matricide from vicious words

it doesn't leave a scratch so therefore no one's hurt


thunder wishes it could be the snow

wishes it could be as loud as she can be

these girls are here for her, for you, for me 


and don't you know the nurses make you clear

just when they've escaped you have yourself to fear

a restaurant that never has to close

breakfast every hour it could save the world 


so hey do you do judo in your finery

an angel's face is tricky to wear constantly 


thunder wishes it could be the snow

wishes it could be as loud as she can be

these gifts are here for her, for you, for me 


for her, for her