Chelsea Morning (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 2/1/1969) - Joni Mitchell

So you know this, huh? Start spreading the news I am leaving today I want to be a part of it New York, New York These vagabond shoes They are longing to stray Right through the very heart of it New York, New York I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep And find I'm King of the Hill Top of the heap My smalltown blues They have drifted away I'm gonna make a brand new start of it In old New York If I can make it there I'll make it anywhere It's up to you New York, New York In New York, New York I want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep And find that I'm number one Top of the list Head of the heap King of the hill What a pain I got, right here Those are little town blues They have all melted away I am about to make a brand new start of it In old New York And you better believe it, baby If I can't make it there, you know I'll make it anywhere It's up to you New York, New York

Oh, isn't it strange How we move our lives for another day? It's like skipping a beat What if a great wave should wash us all away? I'm just thinking out loud I don't mean to dwell on this dying thing But looking at our love It's alive right now And deep and sweet within Pouring through our veins Oh intoxicate me moving wine to tears And drinking it deeply Oh an evening spent dancing It's you and me, uh Just love will open our eyes Just love to put the hopes back in our minds What's more that we could ever know our so Don't throw your day, away Don't throw the day, away Oh, is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground And we complain and pray and need more and more from above Like greedy little pigs Stop and watch the world as you wear those wear Oh, it's your problem now 'Cause you and me will be dead and gone in a few short years Oh, just love will open our eyes Only love will put the hope in our minds Much more than we could ever know Oh, so don't throw the day away, uncivilize day Don't throw the day,, away Oh, come sister, my brother Shake up your bones, shake up your feet I'm saying, open up And let the rain come pouring in Wash out this tired notion And know that the best is yet to come But oh, while you're dancing on the ground What you gon' like when you're gone Love, love, love, what more is there? 'Cause we need all the sweet light of love in here Don't beat your head Dry your eyes Let the love in there There are bad times Oh that's okay You just get for love in it And don't throw the day away Don't throw the day away, oh so like here Look, here are we On this perfect night, thinking out in space All that I must say That I feel as small as dust lying down here Oh, what point could there be troubling? Head down wondering what will become of me? Why concern when we cannot see it all But, no reason to abandon this All time is short time, that's all right Maybe we all should go out in the middle of the night Still take your hands from your eyes, my love 'Cause all good things must come to an end some time Still don't throw the day away, uncivilize day Don't throw the day away Come sister, my brother Shake up your bones, shake up your feet I'm saying open up And let the rain come flooding in Wash out this tired notion And know that the best is yet to come 'Cause oh, while you're dancing on the ground Why think of times when you're gone Love, love, love, what more is there? 'Cause we need all the good light of love in here Don't beat your head Dry your eyes Let the love in there There are bad times And that's okay You just look for love in there Yeah, you just look for love in here You gon' love, only Love away, eh Just look for love in here, away oh

Why do the birds sing so early in the dawn? Their honeysuckle melodies, before my day's alarm I imagine they're rehearsing for some big, elaborate show That I've not been invited to, so I should never know The songs they like to sing, I suppose they're not too far From all the songs I sing, when I'm alone late in my car (when I'm alone late in my car) And if I were the postman awake for the afternoon I'd be the lucky someone eavesdropping on their tunes But I think I like it better when I sleep late past their call For all I know, perhaps the birds don't even sing at all We are nothing Love comes easily to you But not the hurt You're impervious to blue I wish I knew How to sing about the other colors too

Jumped and took a fall Expected I would fly I didn't know that wings Were made of wax and wires But I forgive the sun For burning like it's June 'Cause bones can always mend But there's only one of you You're gravity to me You keep me in my place And without your pull I'd just be lost in space I'm tethered to your heart Oh, any distance wide When whispering your words I hear them amplified And I'm out here on a limb In this vacuum of two So believe when I say That my eyes see only you You're gravity to me You keep me in my place And without your pull I'd just be lost in space

I get fixated, some might say that I go too far Like candy blue, all my tattoos up and down my arms I buy too many watches, Jordan's fill up my closet I got a thing about tequila when I drink at the bar Ooh, ooh, if I'm in, I'm all in Ooh, ooh, hundred and ten percent One little kiss and I can't get enough of you when You bite your lip, you know the way you make me lose it Second I saw you, you stole all my attention It's no surprise to me that you would be my new obsession Your daily habits, yoga mats in the living room You're kinda messy, but it messes me up so good My fault if I'm caught watching Everything that moves when you're walking Can't sober up 'cause I'm drunk off of your perfume One little kiss and I can't get enough of you when You bite your lip, you know the way you make me lose it Second I saw you, you stole all my attention It's no surprise to me that you would be my new obsession Oh, my new obsession Ooh, ooh, if I'm in, I'm all in Ooh, ooh, hundred and ten percent One little kiss and I can't get enough of you when You bite your lip, you know the way you make me lose it Second I saw you, you stole all my attention It's no surprise to me that you would be my new obsession Oh, my new obsession (oh, my new obsession) Oh, oh

While I'm here I wanna fix my daddy's pick-up and disappear Put the pedal to the floor and the past in the rearview mirror Just drive Keep the dream alive You only get one life I'm gonna live it While I'm here I wanna go too far I wanna play too hard I wanna live it up 'cause I know I only got so many years I wanna lose myself In someone else I wanna feel it all Do everything I wanna while I'm here While I'm around I wanna get that peace of mind thing figured out Find a red-hot honey that won't go running if the money runs out Ooh and it always runs out But that ain't what it's all about So while I'm still around Down here I wanna go too far I wanna play too hard I wanna live it up 'cause I know I only got so many years I wanna lose myself In someone else I wanna feel it all Do everything I wanna while I'm here (Do everything I wanna while I'm) (Do everything I wanna while I'm) (Here) Tick-tock that clock on the wall Only goes around so many times That bump-bump-thump in your chest Yeah, it's only gonna work for a little while Tick-tock that clock on the wall Only goes around so many times That bump-bump-thump in your chest Yeah, it's only gonna work for a little while So while I'm still around Down here I wanna go too far (I wanna go too far, yeah) I wanna play too hard I wana live it up 'cause I know I only got so many years I wanna lose myself (lose myself) In someone else I wana feel it all Do everything I wanna while I'm I wanna go too far I wanna play too hard I wanna live it up Do everything I wanna while I'm here I wanna lose myself In someone else I wanna feel it all Do everything I wanna while I'm here