Joni Mitchell
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"Joni Mitchell", Order of Canada/CC, is a Canadian 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 began touring. Some of 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 Joni Mitchell (album)/debut album in 1968.

Settling in Southern California, Mitchell, with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock (song)/Woodstock", helped define an era and counterculture of the 1960s/a generation. Her 1971 recording Blue (Joni Mitchell album)/Blue was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone (magazine)/Rolling Stone's list of the "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time/500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop music/pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring the radio hits "Help Me (Joni Mitchell song)/Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris".

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Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

You know that it never has been easy/ Whether you do or do not resign/ Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities/ Or stick to some straighter line.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.

But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

I love you when I forget about me.