Joni Mitchell Lyrics

    ------ About the song EDITH AND THE KINGPIN performed by Joni Mitchell

As I was listening to Tina Turner sing it, I was thinking that she has watched this story unfold from the invisibility of the bandstand a thousand times in a thousand variations -- probably all professional performers have. That's one reason why it's such a wonderful song - it's so true.

    ------ About the song Urge For Going performed by Joni Mitchell

There is something wildly evocative about this song almost the like the first scent of Autumn in the smoke odor of burning leaves or an arbitrary gust of October wind. Like fading sunsets through leafless trees and James Taylor's "Walkin' Man," it panders to those surreal dreams known only to ourselves during the transitions of the seasons. As did Thomas Wolfe, Joni Mitchell breathes new magic in a dusty world.

    ------ About the song CIRCLE GAME performed by Joni Mitchell

There are songs we hear day in and day out that are catchy, fun and make us smile. we love to hear them over and over again. Then there are the songs that hit us in ways sometimes known and often unknown, that transend the song itself and take their place as monuments to our greater understanding of humankind. Cirlce Game is one
of those songs. From the moment you first hear it you are touched with insight from Joni clearly speaking from a person with a very old and wise soul. And yet she was so young when she wrote it. She gave it to us to ponder then and now as those of us who were young along side her are now aged and continue to find the deeper meaning in the song. The song, like a fine vintage wine, only gets better with time.

    ------ About the song TWISTED performed by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is THE most important FEMALE singer/songwriter of the twentieth century, bar none. Not Carol King, not Joan Baez, not Nina Simone, although they are each amazing and bitchin' unto themselves for their talents and their powerful influences, none have inspired such adulation and emulation among both sexes, none have made such hep, perspicacious observations, none have been as imitated as Joni. Joni is queen. Joni rules.

    ------ About the song Urge For Going performed by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell wrote this song and the lyrics. There is a black and white video of her singing it on You Tube, and she looks to be in her early 20s. It's such a "wise old soul" type of song. It reminds me of something written by a high elf in Rivendale (from The Lord of the Rings) it's so mystical/ magical sounding. Truly a gorgeous song- one of many written by the great Joni Mitchell.

    ------ About the song CIRCLE GAME performed by Joni Mitchell

Truly a song you can listen to throughout your entire life. My mom sang and played it to me all throughout my childhood and I now sing it to my daughter. Honestly whenever Im really sick I head home and grandma sings to the both of us. Truly an ageless piece.

    ------ About the song THE SAME SITUATION performed by Joni Mitchell

This song has emotional depth, and seems meaningful if you're a woman.
Finding this song, helped me through a time when I found out my mother had adopted out 2 babies before marrying. I think this song helped me through finding this out and then meeting those 2 sons for the first time. I am pleased for Joni that she has met her adopted daughter and grandchildren.
I love the way her real middle name is Joan as so is mine.

    ------ About the song CIRCLE GAME performed by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is one of the great lyricists of the 20th/21st century. She delves deep into the angst and beauty of life. How she wrote this song as a young woman only attests to the depth of her intelligences.

If you're over 40, you now totally understand the poignancy of this song. Thanks, Joni, for writing a song I needed twenty five years before its time.

    ------ About the song Urge For Going performed by Joni Mitchell

It's late December, 2010 in New Jersey and has been freezing cold and windy for the best part of the month.

Whether it is Joni herself, or Tom Rush, or Dave Van Ronk, when I listen to this beautiful and somehow, heartbreaking song, it brings a tear to my eye. The lyrics are amazing!

    ------ About the song Urge For Going performed by Joni Mitchell

Yeah, Joni hit a home run on this one! Tom Rush did an excellent cover in the '70's when he was intentionally growling on some of the lines (now he has no choice. She came from Canada, so she knows about the harshness of winter. But it is a clean, fresh, challenging test of the human will - which is why "I never seem to go". I grew up in PA & knew a retired steelworker who couldn't wait for winter. He would put the chains on his 4-wheel drive truck, load up with ashes, salt, tow chains, & jumper cables, & go out looking for poor souls stuck in the ditch. Never took a dime, & never said "I told you so". But he did tell me once about separating the sheep from the goats. He died up there, & I spent most of the rest of my life in the Carolinas, but I can identify with the sentiment.