Priest

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Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one o… more »


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The priest sat in the airport bar
he was wearing his father's tie
and his eyes looked into my eyes so far
whenever the words ran dry
behind the lash and the circles blue
he looked as only a priest can thru
and his eyes said me and his eyes said you
and my eyes said, let us try.

He said you wouldn't like it here
no, it's no place you should share
the roof is ripped with hurricanes
and the room is always bare
I need the wind and I seek the cold
he reached past the wine for my hand to hold
and he saw me young and he saw me old
and he saw me sitting there.

Then he took his contradictions out
and he splashed them on my brow
so which words was I then to doubt
when choosing what to vow
Should I choose them all- should I make them mine
the sermons, the hymns and the valentines
he asked for truth and he asked for time
and he asked for only now.

Now the trials are trumpet scored
oh will we pass the test
or just as one loves more and more
will one love less and less
oh come let's run from this ring we're in
where the christians clap and the germans grin
saying let them lose, crying let them win
oh make them both confess.

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