A case of you e Joni Mitchell

Falando em boas cantoras... lembrei da Joni Mitchell.
Acho que hoje em dia pouca gente conhece ela, por isso coloco aqui uma música dela que gosto bastante...





"Eu poderia beber um barril de você, querido...
E eu ainda estaria em pé."
:)

Letra:

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star."
And I said,"Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar."
"On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Oh, you are in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet.
Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
I remember that time you told me, you said
"Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine cause
part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet
I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours, she knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds and she said
"Go to him, stay with him if you can
Bbut be prepared to bleed"
But you are in my blood, you're my holy wine
You're so bitter, so bitter and so sweet
Oh, I could drink a case of you, oh darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.




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Pra quem nunca ouviu falar dela, vou colocar aqui duas músicas que talvez sejam mais familiares, que são dessa cantora:


The Last Time I Saw Richard,
cantada por Renato Russo no Acústico MTv da Legião Urbana.
(não consegui um vídeo com a canção original da Joni, mas aí vai o vídeo da Legião...)




Letra:

Last time I saw Richard was Detroit in 68
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate
Someday, cynical and bitter and boring someone
In some dark cafe
You laugh, he said you think you're immune,
Go look at your eyes
They're full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies, pretty lies
He put a quarter in the wurlitzer, and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whirl
And a waitress came by a fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said: "drink up now it's getting on time to close"
Richard, you haven't really changed, I said
That's just now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head
You've got tombs in your in your eyes, but the songs
You punched are dreaming
Listen, they talk of love so sweet
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?
Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet
Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dish washer and a coffe percolator
And he drinks at home now most night with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want nobody comin'over to my table
I've got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers passes this away someday
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes
Only this darkness before
I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days





e Big Yellow Taxi, que a maioria deve conhecer pela banda Counting Crows, quando gravaram a música junto com a cantora Vanessa Carlton.


Versão dos Counting Crows:





Versão original da Joni Mitchell:




Letra:

They paved paradise
and put up a parking lot
with a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what youve got
til its gone
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
they took all the trees
and put them in a tree museum
and they charged the people
a dollar and a half just to seem 'em
don't it always seem to go,
that you don't know what youve got
til its gone
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
hey farmer farmer
put away that DDT now
give me spots on my apples
but leaves me the birds and the bees
please!
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what youve got
til its gone
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Late last night
i heard the screen door slam
and a big yellow taxi
took away my old man
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what youve got
til its gone
they paved paradise
and put up a parking lot

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