Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (2000)

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I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow,
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all.

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Tears and fears and feeling proud,
To say "I love you" right out loud,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds,
I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living ev'ry day.

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I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds at all.

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I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall;
I really don't know life at all.

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There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow

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Rows and flows of angel hair,
And ice cream castles in the air,
And feather canyons ev'rywhere,
I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun,
They rain and snow on ev'ryone,
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way.

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Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

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Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive.

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He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

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How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

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