Joni Mitchell - Roses Blue Lyrics
I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles
I think of rain, I think of roses blue
I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble
To see the place she's lately gotten to
Gotten to, gotten to
She's gotten to mysterious devotions
She's gotten to the zodiac and Zen
She's gotten into tarot cards and potions
She's laying her religion on her friends
On her friends, on her friends
Friends who come to ask her for their future
Friends who come to find they can't be friends
Because of signs and seasons that don't suit her
She'll prophesy your death, she won't say when
When all the black cards come you cannot barter
No, when all your stars are stacked you cannot win
She'll shake her head and treat you like a martyr
It is her blackest spell she puts you in
Puts you in, puts you in
In sorrow she can lure you where she wants you
Inside your own self-pity there you swim
In sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you
And only with your laughter can you win
Can you win, can you win
You win the lasting laurels with your laughter
It reaches like an arm before you sink
To win the solitary truth you're after
You dare not ask the priestess how to think
How to think, how to think
I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles
I think of rain, I think of roses blue
I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble
To see the place she's lately gotten to
Gotten to, gotten to
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Joni Mitchell Roses Blue Comments
I love this song but always thought it sounded strange !
Can anyone name a Top 100 artist nowadays that works chord progressions like these into their songs?
I think she must have had, in the back of her mind, Rogers and Hammerstein. It's darker than them, but it shares with a lot of their songs a dramatic, and somewhat contrived, modal shift at the end of a phrase. Modal shifts were common by the early thirties, but it seems to me they were employed more either for bridges or transition from the "verse" to the "chorus". Complex tonal alterations within a given section were common too, but they could be explained as substitutions that didn't affect the sense of key the way this song does. I'd be interested to know if other composers used them the way R&H did. There ARE artists in recent history who have been adventurous in their chord progressions. Soundgarden comes to mind.
It's a wild harmonic and melodic ride, an appropriate setting for the lyrics. Very few songwriters could touch this craft.
I think this song might have been written about Judee Sill
I wonder who this was written about.
this song reminds me of my girlfriend from 1970-1975....she passed away in 1981