Posted on 04/01/2015 4:20:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Joni Mitchell – Twisted Lyrics
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said I’d be better dead than live
I didn’t listen to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought
I was crazy but I’m not
Oh no
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
He said I’d need treatment
But I’m not that easily led
He said I was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
And he thought I was nuts
No more ifs or ands or buts
They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening
I knew I was a genius...
What’s so strange when you know
That you’re a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be
Now I heard little children
Were supposed to sleep tight
That’s why I got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic
Didn’t know what to do
But I saw some crazy scenes
Before I came to
Now do you think I was crazy
I may have been only three
But I was swinging
They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at Edison
And also at Einstein
So why should I feel sorry
If they just couldn’t understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in my head
I had a brain
It was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When I refused to ride
On all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
But I said dear doctor
I think that it’s you instead
Because I have got a thing
That’s unique and new
To prove it I’ll have
The last laugh on you
‘Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ
Both sides now, done in 2000. I heard she lowered it an octave as she aged.
Joni also used alternate tunings on her guitar. Trying to figure out her guitar tunings is a nightmare as she is all over the place with them. I don’t think she ever used standard tuning. Many other artists followed her leads with the alternate tunings, Stephen Stills one of them.
Joni has never made a secret her heavy tobacco usage over the years and I don’t she’s released a new record in years
She was brilliant but at some point, she began to believe her own hype. That’s when I quit listening.
Court and Spark was my joint back in the mid-80’s when the Walkman came out.
Tremendous talent and creativity....I too wish for her recovery.
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