| Laura Nyro – Captain Saint Lucifer Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Loved Laura since college in the late 60s. L.N. either makes your skin kinda crawl at first, she's so RAW or you dive right in. I introduced my sister to her with New York Tendaberry album. I warned her - you have to just let it loose and go with it when she blows like a whale. I gave her Billy Childs' brilliant collaboration with Joni's ex husband Larry Klein called "Re-imagining Laura Nyro" with Yoyo Ma, Ricky Lee Jones, Alison Krauss, which is a MUST for Nyro lovers. Find this album and swoon! New York Tendaberry is to me a concept album... she just sat down at the piano and banged out some tunes, making up words as she went along, not worrying about meaning so much, as in a dream. Colors and textures and depth and mystical-ness. My fav. Nyro song if I had to choose one is Gibsom Street. It's so DARK yet has a golden edged horizon to it. 'The devil is hungry the devil is sweet, they hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street.' I mean, who does that? Who writes lyrics like that? The melody is so haunting the way it lurches around in the dark. Susan Tedeschi does a goosebump version on Billy Childs' album... imagine Laura done a-la Court and Spark production and backgrounds. The tension that is built up in this song is palatable... all my sorrows all my loving... goosebumps!!! Captain St. Lucifer is a stream-of-consciousness jumble of words that takes you for an uncomfortable ride. Gutters in stacks could just as easily be gutters in sacks or flutters in packs for all we know - or care. For some unknown reason we need mama's blessing to unlock the door to receive Buckles off shingles, Off a cockleshell on norway basin. We're in Norway and Russia and... a jangle from a congo love chase, early bloomers made of earth and love lace. I don't know what she was smoking or who made the moonshine she was sip-sipping but back in those days the mojo was thick with magic goo and forget-me-nots! |
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| Joni Mitchell – Black Crow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| let it out! | |
| Joni Mitchell – Borderline Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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the music in this is so... so... intense like watching TV today you scathe the wonder world join you are too much! while the janitors of shadow land flick their brooms at me... |
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| Joni Mitchell – Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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flying over the united states, looking down over the midwest checkerboard, one MUST put this song in their ears. it is one of the reasons you exist! to hear this song at 25,000 feet over kansas!! eagles in the sky, you and i |
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| Joni Mitchell – I Had A King Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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beware of the power of moons! Oh, but sometimes the light Can be so hard to find At least the moon at the window The thieves left that behind. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Last Chance Lost Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| a golden nugget | |
| Joni Mitchell – Nathan La Franeer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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the ghostly garden grows... oooooo how i have loved this song over the decades |
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| Joni Mitchell – Night of the Iguana Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song sticks in your head like salt water taffy to your teeth | |
| Joni Mitchell – Sweet Bird Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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god, this is such an anguishing cry of impermanence in the world of form. sometimes when i stand in front of the bathroom mirror i hear... Give me some time I feel like I'm losing mine Out here on this horizon line With the earth spinning And the sky forever rushing it is on the same level as john's 'across the universe' |
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| Joni Mitchell – Turbulent Indigo Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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brilliant no mercy sweet jesus! the music in this one i find fun and thrilling |
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| Joni Mitchell – Two Grey Rooms Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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take the despair of losing the love of your life and put it in a can like concentrated orange juice and call it 'two grey rooms' devastating to watch the one that stole the heart out of your chest walk by your window.. with a view |
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| Joni Mitchell – Urge For Going Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song gives me the chills | |
| Joni Mitchell – Urge For Going Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song gives me the chills | |
| Joni Mitchell – The Three Great Stimulants Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i love this song too. it's great to listen to while on the treadmill looking out over the swirling snow outside. |
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| Joni Mitchell – The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i can only listen to this song parked at the edge of a field in the hills at sunset as loud as the car stereo can go. and my voice is very very hoarse when it is over! | |
| Joni Mitchell – The Dawntreader Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song taught me that life has magic woven into its fabric when i first heard it as a young man when the album was first released in the 60s | |
| Joni Mitchell – Sunny Sunday Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| omg is this little ditty of a tune powerful or what? | |
| Joni Mitchell – Song For Sharon Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song has got to be one of the most hauntingly beautiful creations made by mankind. | |
| Joni Mitchell – Passion Play (When All the Slaves are Free) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Joni, who are you talking to? I have wanted to ask you that question for YEARS now! | |
| Joni Mitchell – Slouching Towards Bethlehem Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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awesome! the drums drive that beast right down my street and into my dreams! |
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| Joni Mitchell – Shine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song casts a spell, right eckhart tolle? | |
| Joni Mitchell – Marcie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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haunting this song haunts me i lived in nyc at this time of her life and this song was conjured up from a spell of despair met in the hallway - a ghost of the human condition passing on the stairs and into oblivion |
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| Joni Mitchell – Hejira Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i cry to this one, i cry... White flags of winter chimneys Waving truce against the moon In the mirrors of a modern bank From the window of a hotel room gets you in the gut |
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| Joni Mitchell – Harry's House/Centerpiece Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| when she breaks into the jazzy bump and grind of 'the more i'm with you, pretty baby' i go there, there where joni lives | |
| Joni Mitchell – Furry Sings The Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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shine on me miss liberty.... for a long time i couldn't l listen to this album, it made me too emotional, i would get wet eyes. i lived on staten island for a while. big boat chugging back with a belly full of cars... furry sings the blues is insane, just one of the most insanely perfect story telling songs ever sung. i am right there with her visiting this man, watching main streets disappear across america along with these magic men that lived on them. |
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