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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)
They took all the trees, put em in a tree museum
And they cha... |
Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, Constantly in the darkness
Wheres that at?
If you want me Ill be in the bar
On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh, Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Oh, you are in my blood li... |
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow... |
Its coming on Christmas
Theyre cutting down trees
Theyre putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it dont snow here
It stays pretty green
Im gonna make a lot of money
Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I wish I ... |
I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shoppin today for jewels
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let out from their school
I was standin on a noisy corner
Waitin for the walkin green
Across the street, he stood
And he played real good
On his clarinet for free
Now me, I play for fortunes
And ... |
What’s, what’s the next song?
The one about me
Oh, yeah, I like this one… uh, uh, like Joni says
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s
That yo... |
Blue
Songs are like tattoos
You know Ive been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Hey, blue
There is a song for you
Ink on a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in
Well, theres so many sinking now
You gotta keep thinking
You can make it through these waves
Acid, booze, and ass
Needles, guns... |
Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They wont give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see
But I wouldnt wanna stay here
Its too old and cold and settled in its ways here
Oh, but California
California, Im coming home
Im going to see the folks... |
I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be?
Oh, I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some
Oh, I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong, I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I ... |
Its coming on Christmas
Theyre cutting down trees
Theyre putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it dont snow here
It stays pretty green
Im gonna make a lot of money
Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
Oh, I... |
Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children whove made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer
He went to California
Hearing that everythings warmer there
So you write him a letter and say Her eyes are blue
He sends you a p... |
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what you got til its gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum
And they cha... |
Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, tell me, where are you going?
This he told me
Said, Im going down to Yasgurs Farm
Gonna join in a rock and roll band
Got to get back to the land
And set my soul free
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And weve got... |
My old man
Hes a singer in the park
Hes a walker in the rain
Hes a dancer in the dark
We dont need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues
Hes my sunshine in the morning
Hes my fireworks at the end of the day
Hes the warmest chord I ever heard
Play that warm chord,... |
The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldnt sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey
But its really not my home
My fingernails are filthy
I got beach tar on my feet
And I miss my clean white linen
And my fancy French cologne
Oh, Carey, get out your cane
And Ill put on some silver
Oh, youre a mean old... |
Its coming on Christmas
Theyre cutting down trees
Theyre putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it dont snow here, it stays pretty green
Im going to make a lot of money
Then Im going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
... |
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Where are you going?
And this he told me
Im going on down to Yasgurs Farm
Im gonna join in a rock and roll band
Im gonna camp out on the land
Im gonna try and get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves back to th... |
Just before our love got lost, you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, Constantly in the darkness
Wheres that at?
If you want me Ill be in the bar
On the back of a carton coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh, Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Oh, youre in my blood, you... |
Hey love, thought that I’d just share my day
It felt a little bit crazy, baby
I cleaned the closet so I’m out of your way
Guess you can have your space
Well, I thought that I should write a letter
Then I thought this would be better, don’t yell
There’s a million ways that I could tell you
But I think I’d rather show yo... |
The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in 68
And he told me, All romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café
You laugh, he said, you think youre immune
Go look at your eyes, theyre full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, p... |
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
Were captive on the carousel of time
We cant return, we can only look
Behind from where we cam... |
Tonight youre mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
But will you love me tomorrow?
Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moments pleasure?
Can I believe the magic in your sighs?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Tonight with words unspoken
You said that Im the only one
Bu... |
Bows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feathered canyons everywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still s... |
Its coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
Theyre putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it dont snow here
It stays pretty green
I’m gonna make a lot of money
Then Im going to quit this crazy scene
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
... |
No regrets Coyote
We just come from such different sets of circumstance
Im up all night in the studios
And youre up early on your ranch
Youll be brushing out a broodmares tail
While the sun is ascending
And Ill just be getting home with my reel-to-reel
Theres no comprehending
Just how close to the bone and the skin and... |
Look out the left, the captain said
The lights down there, thats where well land
I saw a falling star burn up
Above the Las Vegas sands
It wasnt the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one
That you can wish upon
Not the northern one
That guides in the sailors
Oh, starbright,... |
Look out the left, the captain said
The lights down there, thats where well land
Saw a falling star burning
High above the Las Vegas sand
It wasnt the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one that you wish upon
Not the northern one that guides in the sailors
Youve got that to... |
Comin on Christmas
Theyre cuttin down trees
Theyre puttin up reindeer
And singin songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it dont snow here
It stays pretty green
Im gonna make a lotta money
Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene
Oh, I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a... |
I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
It was the strings of my guitar
Amelia it was just a false alarm
The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it get... |
Im traveling in some vehicle
Im sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
Theres comfort in melancholy
When theres no need to explain
Its just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now Im returning to myself
Th... |
Help me, I think Im falling in love again
When I get that crazy feeling, I know Im in trouble again
Im in trouble cause youre a rambler and a gambler
And a sweet taIking ladies man and you love your lovin
But not like you love your freedom
Help me, I think Im falling in love too fast
Its got me hoping for the future an... |
Theres a man whos been out sailing
In a decade full of dreams
And he takes her to a schooner
And he treats her like a queen
Bearing beads from California
With their amber stones and green
He has called her from the harbor
He has kissed her with his freedom
He has heard her off to starboard
In the breaking and the breat... |
I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shopping today for jewels
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let out from the schools
I was standing on a noisy corner
Waiting for the walking green
Across the street he stood
And he played real good
On his clarinet for free
Now me I play for fortunes
And... |
The way I see it he said
You just cant win it
Everybodys in it for their own gain
You cant please em all
Theres always somebody calling you down
I do my best and I do good business
Theres a lot of people asking for my time
Theyre trying to get ahead
Theyre trying to be a good friend of mine
I was a free man in Paris
I ... |
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow... |
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning
And the first thing that I heard
Was a song outside my window
And the traffic wrote the words
It came ringing up like Christmas bells
And rapping up like pipes and drums
Oh, wont you stay
Well put on the day
And well wear it till the night comes
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning
And th... |
Trina wears her wampum beads
She fills her drawing book with lines
Sewing lace on widows weeds
And filigree on leaf and vine
Vine and leave are filigree
And her coats a second hand one
Trimmed with antique luxury
She is a lady of the canyon
Annie sits you down to eat
She always makes you welcome in
Cats and babies roun... |
Mustve drank a lot of pain
Judging by the way it aches
I mustve sold a lot of secrets
Everyone a heavy weight
Of all the fears that I face
Youre the first one I defeated
Everything I know
And everything I dont
You took em all and shook em to the floor
Now Ive laid the ghost
Of what I hate the most
You blew them all awa... |
All the people at this party
Theyve got a lot of style
Theyve got stamps of many countries
Theyve got passport smiles
Some are friendly, some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre
Giving to get something
Photo beauty gets attention
Then her eye paints running down
Shes got a ro... |
Love came to my door
With a sleeping roll
And a madmans soul
He thought for sure Id seen him
Dancing up a river in the dark
Looking for a woman
To court and spark
He was playing on the sidewalk
For passing change
When something strange happened
Glory train passed through him
So he buried the coins he made
In Peoples Pa... |
Jag steg och föll med skjutna vingar
Genom glass-slott i aprilskyar
Och fjädergrottor överallt
Har sett de bästa moln
Men nu skymmer de solen
De regnar och snöar på varenda en
Och allt jag borde ha gjort men
Moln kom ivägen
Jag har sett på moln från båda sidor nu
Från in och ut, och ändå ser jag nu bara molnillusioner
... |
I went to Staten Island, Sharon
To buy myself a mandolin
And I saw the long white dress of love
On a storefront mannequin
Big boat chuggin back with a belly full of cars
All for something lacy
Some girls going to see that dress
And crave that day like crazy
Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
They can balance a... |
I’m a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I used to be frightened by the devil
And drawn to those ones that werent afraid
Remember you told me
Love was touching souls?
Surely you touched mine
Part of you pours out of me from time to time in these lines
You’re in my blood like holy wine
You’re so bitter and so swee... |
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot
Dont it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
Paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Ooo-bop-bop-bop
Ooo-bop-bop-bop)
Took all the trees, put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar ... |
He bought her a diamond for her throat
He put her in a ranch house on a hill
She could see the valley barbecues
From her window sill
See the blue pools in the squinting sun
Hear the hissing of summer lawns
He put up a barbed wire fence
To keep out the unknown
And on every metal thorn
Just a little blood of his own
She ... |
I met you on a midway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black mans ear
You were playin on the horses; you were playin on the guitar strings;
You were playin like a devil wearin wings
Wearin wings, you looked so grand wearin wings
Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing?
Can you fly? I heard... |
If youre driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Whos bound to love you
Oh honey, you turn me on
Im a radio
Im a country station
Im a little bit corny
Im a wildwood flower
Waving for you
Im a broadcasting tower
Waving for you
And Im sending you out
This signal here
I hope you can pick it up
Lou... |
Everything comes and goes
Marked by lovers and styles of clothes
Things that you held high
And told yourself were true
Lost or changing as the days come down to you
Down to you
Constant stranger
Youre a kind person
Youre a cold person too
Its down to you
It all comes down to you
You go down to the pick up station
Cravi... |
I thought I met a man
Who said he knew a man
Who knew what was going on
I was mistaken
Only another stranger
That I knew
And I thought that Id found a light
To guide me through
My night and all this darkness
I was mistaken
Only reflections of a shadow
That I saw
And I thought Ive seen someone
Who seemed at last
To know... |
As every day goes by
How can we close our eyes
Until we open up our hearts
We can learn to share
And show how much we care
Right from the moment that we start
Seems like overnight
We see the world in a different light
Somehow our innocence is lost
How can we look away
Cause every single day
Weve got to help at any cost... |
I had a king in a tenement castle
Lately hes taken to painting the pastel walls brown
Hes taken the curtains down
Hes swept with the broom of contempt
And the rooms have an empty ring
Hes cleaned with the tears
Of an actor who fears for the laughters sting-
I cant go back there anymore
You know my keys wont fit the doo... |
He comes for conversation
I comfort him sometimes
Comfort and consultation
He knows thats what hell find
I bring him apples and cheeses
He brings me songs to play
He sees me when he pleases
I see him in cafes
And I only say, Hello
And turn away before his lady knows
How much I want to see him
She removes him, like a ri... |
Again and again the same situation
For so many years
Tethered to a ringing telephone
In a room full of mirrors
A pretty girl in your bathroom
Checking out her sex appeal
I asked myself when you said you loved me
Do you think this can be real?
Still I sent up my prayer
Wondering where it had to go
With heaven full of as... |
Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties Snack Bar boarded up now
And Egles the Tailor and the Shine Boys gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handys cast in bronze
And hes standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like hes listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings ... |
Ive got a blue motel room
With a blue bedspread
Ive got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me
When I call you up when Im down
Here in Savannah its pouring rain
Palm trees in the porch light like slick black cellophane
Will you still love me
When I call you up when I get back to town
I know that yo... |
When I first saw your gallery
I liked the ones of ladies
Then you began to hang up me
You studied to portray me
In ice and greens
And old blue jeans
And naked in the roses
Then you got into funny scenes
That all your work discloses
Lady, dont love me now I am dead
I am a saint, turn down your bed
I have no heart, thats... |
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said Id be better dead than live
I didnt listen to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought
I was crazy but Im not
Oh no
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
He said I need treatment
But Im not ... |
Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way
But Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and stil... |
I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here
It seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face
Or seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here
I get these notes
On butterflies and lilac sprays
From girls who just have to tell me... |
Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there
Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair
Picked up a pencil and wrote I love you in my finest hand
Wanted to send it, but I dont know where I stand
Telephone, even the sound of your voice is still new
All alone in California and talking to you
And feeli... |
Downtown
My darling dime store thief
In the War of Independence
Rock n roll rang sweet as victory
Under neon signs
A girl was in bloom
And a woman was fading
In a suburban room
I said take me to the dance
Do you want to dance?
I love to dance
And I told him
They dont take chances
They seem so removed from romance
Theyv... |
When morning comes to Morgantown
The merchants roll their awnings down
The milk trucks make their morning rounds
In morning Morgantown
Well rise up early, with the sun
To ride the bus while everyone is yawning
And the day is young
In morning Morgantown
Morning Morgantown
Buy your dreams, a dollar down
Morning any town ... |
Down in the cellar in the Boho Zone
I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well
Just another hard-time band
With Negro affectations
I was a hopeful in rooms like this
When I was working cheap
Its an old romance, the Boho dance
It hasnt gone to sleep
But even on the scuffle
The cleaners press was in my jeans
And ... |
Verse
And I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
And shivering trees are standing in a naked row
Chorus
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
And I get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown
Su... |
I pulled up behind a Cadillac
We were waiting for the light
I took a look at his license plate
It said Just Ice
Is justice just ice?
Governed by greed and lust
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must
Oh, and the gas leaks
And the oil spills
And sex sells everything
Sex kills
Oh, sex ki... |
Varnished weeds in window jars
Tarnished beads on tapestries
Kept in satin boxes are
Reflections of loves memories
Letters from across the seas
Roses dipped in sealing wax
Valentines and maple leaves
Tucked into a paperback
Guess Ill throw them all away
I found someone to love today
Dark with darker moods is he
Not a g... |
He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
He was drinking for diversion
He was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the Maple Leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says: Let me sit down
You know, drinkin alones a shame
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey, youve got lots ... |
And so, once again
My dear Johnny, my dear friend
And so, once again, you are fighting us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall
Oh, my friend, how did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum?
You say I have turned
Like the enemies youve earned
But I can remember
All the good things you ... |
Willy is my child, he is my father
I would be his lady all my life
He says hed love to live with me
But for an ancient injury
That has not healed
He said I feel once again
Like I gave my heart too soon
He stood looking through the lace
At the face on the conquered moon
And counting all the cars up the hill
And the star... |
It was a rainy night
We took a taxi to your mothers home
She went to Florida and left you
With you fathers gun, alone
Upon her small white bed
I fell into a dream
You sat up all the night and watched me
To see, who in the world I might be
I am from the Sunday school
I sing soprano in the upstairs choir
You are a holy m... |
Bad boy
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
When every fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyon... |
The big man arrives
Disco dancers greet him
Plainclothes cops greet him
Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening
Sophomore jive
From victims of typewriters
The band sounds like typewriters
The big man hes not listening
His eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds his right
What does that hand desire
That he grips it s... |
Dont interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says, Your notches, liberation doll
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall
Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
Shes a vengeful ... |
Cold Blue Steel out of money
One eye for the beat police
Sweet Fire calling
You cant deny me
Now you know what you need
Underneath the jungle gym
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
Looking for Sweet Fire
Shadow of Lady Release
Come with me
I know the way she says
Its down, down, down the dark ladder
Do you want to contact s... |
Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixi... |
I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
Heart and humor and humility
He said Will lighten up your heavy load
I left him for the refuge of... |
I am a woman of heart and mind
With time on her hands
No child to raise
You come to me like a little boy
And I give you my scorn and my praise
You think Im like your mother
Or another lover or your sister
Or the queen of your dreams
Or just another silly girl
When love makes a fool of me
After the rush when you come ba... |
Ive been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show
Ive been listening to the sirens and the radio
He said hed be over three hours ago
Ive been waiting for his car on the hill
He makes friends easy
Hes not like me
I watch for judgement anxiously
Now where in the city can that boy be
Waiting for a car
Climbing
Climbing
Cli... |
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him where are you going
And this he told me
Im going on down to Yasgurs farm
Im going to join in a rock n roll band
Im going to camp out on the land
Im going to try an get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves
Back t... |
The story hit the news
From coast to coast
They said you beat the girl
You loved the most
Your charitable acts
Seemed out of place
With the beauty
With your fist marks on her face
Your buddies all stood by
They bet their fortunes
And their fame
That she was out of line
And you were not to blame
Six hundred thousand doc... |
A strange boy is weaving
A course of grace and havoc
On a yellow skateboard
Thru midday sidewalk traffic
Just when I think hes foolish and childish
And I want him to be manly
I catch my fool and my child
Needing love and understanding
What a strange strange boy
He still lives with his family
Even the war and the navy
C... |
Heatwaves on the runway
As the wheels set down
He takes his baggage off the carousel
He takes a taxi into town
Yellow schools of taxi fishes
Jonah in a ticking whale
Caught up at the light in the fishnet windows
Of Bloomingdales
Watching those high fashion girls
Skinny black models with Raven curls
Beauty parlor blonds... |
Up in a sterilized room
Where they let you be lazy
Knowing your attitudes all wrong
And you got to change
And thats not easy
Dragon shining with all values known
Dazzling you, keeping you from your own
Where is the lion in you
To defy him when youre this weak
And this spacey
So what are you going to do about it
You can... |
Michael wakes you up with sweets
He takes you up streets and the rain comes down
Sidewalk markets locked up tight
And umbrellas bright on a grey background
Theres oil on the puddles in taffeta patterns
That run down the drain
In colored arrangements
That Michael will change with a stick that he found
Michael from mount... |
Daylight falls upon the path, the forest falls behind
Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty
The shadow trembles in its wrath, Ive robbed its blackness blind
And tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to me
I think I understand
Fear is like a wilderland
Stepping stones or sinking sand
Now the way leads to the hills, ab... |
Im always running behind the time
Just like this train
Shaking into town
With the brakes complaining
I used to count lovers like railroad cars
I counted them on my side
Lately I dont count on nothing
I just let things slide
The station masters shuffling cards
Boxcars are banging in the yards
Jealous lovinll make you cr... |
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
When I asked him, where are you going?
This, he told me:
Im going down to Yasgurs farm
Think Ill join a rock and roll band
Ill camp out on the land
Ill try and set my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves back to the garden
Then, c... |
Lady called the blue boy, love
She took him home
Made himself an idol, yes
So he turned to stone
Like a pilgrim she travelled
To place her flowers
Before his granite grace
And she prayed aloud for love
To waken in his face
In his face, oh
Sometimes in the evening
He would read to her
Roll her in his arms
And give his s... |
Theres a crow flying
Black and ragged
Tree to tree
Hes black as the highway thats leading me
Now hes diving down
To pick up on something shiny
I feel like that black crow
Flying
In a blue sky
I took a ferry to the highway
Then I drove to a pontoon plane
I took a plane to a taxi
And a taxi to a train
Ive been traveling ... |
Fly silly seabird
No dreams can possess you
No voices can blame you
For sun on your wings
My gentle relations
Have names they must call me
For loving the freedom
Of all flying things
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry
I came to the city
And lived like old Crusoe
On an island of noise
In a cobblesto... |
I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles
I think of rain, I think of roses blue
I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble
To see the place shes lately gotten to
Gotten to, gotten to
Shes gotten to mysterious devotions
Shes gotten to the zodiac and Zen
Shes gotten into tarot cards and potions
Shes laying her reli... |
Marcie in a coat of flowers
Steps inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So shell wash her flower curtains
Hang them in the wind to dry
Dust her tables with his shirt and
Wave another day goodbye
Marcies faucet needs a plumber
Marcies sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn green i... |
You could have been more than a name on the door
On the thirty-third floor in the air
More than a credit card
Swimming pool in the backyard
While you still have the time you could get away and find
A better life, you know the grind
Is so ungrateful
Racing cars, whisky bars
No one cares who you really are
Youre the keep... |
No tongue in the bell
And the fishwives yell
But they might as well be mute
So you get to keep the pictures
That dont seem like much
Cold white keys under your fingers
Now youre thinking
Thats no substitute
It just dont do it
Like the song of a warm warm body
Loving your touch
In the court they carve your legend
With a... |
I used to think the world was flat
Rarely threw my hat into the crowd
I felt I had used up my quota of yearning
Used to look in on the children at night
In the glow of their Donald Duck light
And frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning
But, oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning
Satellit... |
Out of the fire like Catholic saints
Comes Scarlett and her deep complaint
Mimicking tenderness she sees
In sentimental movies
A celluloid rider comes to town
Cinematic lovers sway
Plantations and sweeping ballroom gowns
Take her breath away
Out in the wind in crinolines
Chasing the ghosts of Gable and Flynn
Through st... |
Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions
Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor
Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where
Never mind their questions theres no answer for
The roll of the harbour wake
The songs that the rigging makes
The taste of the spray he takes
And he learns to give
He aches and he ... |
And so once again
My dear Johnny my dear friend
And so once again you are fightin us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say I have turned
Like the enemies youve earned
But I can remember
All the good things you are
And... |
Come to the dinner gong
The table is laden high
Fat bellies and hungry little ones
Tuck your napkins in
And take your share
Some get the gravy
And some get the gristle
Some get the marrow bone
And some get nothing
Though theres plenty to spare
I took my share down by the sea
Paper plates and Javex bottles on the tide
S... |
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot
Don’t it always seem to go
That you dont know what youve got ’til its gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
They took all the trees, put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just t... |
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Dataset Card for "huggingartists/joni-mitchell"
Dataset Summary
The Lyrics dataset parsed from Genius. This dataset is designed to generate lyrics with HuggingArtists. Model is available here.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
en
How to use
How to load this dataset directly with the datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("huggingartists/joni-mitchell")
Dataset Structure
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
This example was too long and was cropped:
{
"text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you\nNot to hurt your feelings\nBut I'm only going to get this one chance\nSomething's wrong, I can feel it..."
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
text: astringfeature.
Data Splits
| train | validation | test |
|---|---|---|
| 559 | - | - |
'Train' can be easily divided into 'train' & 'validation' & 'test' with few lines of code:
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset, DatasetDict
import numpy as np
datasets = load_dataset("huggingartists/joni-mitchell")
train_percentage = 0.9
validation_percentage = 0.07
test_percentage = 0.03
train, validation, test = np.split(datasets['train']['text'], [int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*train_percentage), int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*(train_percentage + validation_percentage))])
datasets = DatasetDict(
{
'train': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(train)}),
'validation': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(validation)}),
'test': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(test)})
}
)
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
Who are the annotators?
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Citation Information
@InProceedings{huggingartists,
author={Aleksey Korshuk}
year=2021
}
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