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| Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[mickzzzzzz:1932] Good luck finding wisdom by only looking at one side. Its sad to see people who think that love and beauty don't exist, when its clear to other people that they do and that the people who don't think it exists maybe ought to do a little searching. But these people will always claim to be the 'grownups', put themselves in places of authority and try to force their 'wisdom' which is really a form of foolishness down other people's throats. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[mickzzzzzz:1931] Yea, I'm not sure why you are siding with one of the sides from a song clearly titled BOTH sides now. Clouds are beautiful as well as gloomy. Relationships can go good or bad. Life is full of ups and downs. Growing up is not about embracing the negative side and that's certainly not what this song is about. Its about both sides, not one or the other. And if you listen to the verses illustrating both sides of clouds, love, life the meaning of the song they all end with the refrain that she doesn't understand the duality between the ups and downs. The idea that she is dreamer who is chosing illusion over reality is just trash talk and is insulting to Joni Mitchell and her listeners. She presents life as a mystery, which is the way it is. There will always be people who think that embracing one side which they describe as 'reality' is the path to living life successfully and although they may feel pruposeful and righteous in this claim and try to insist that other's follow them, they miss out on one side of life, but remain locked into their wisedom that is actually an illusion. Joni Mitchell is far wiser and looks at both sides, and examines the human condition and responsds to it with the bittersweet meloncoly tone that rings through in her kind voice with an inspiring emotional wisdom. But some people watch to much TV and think this about a dreamer from the 1960's that hasn't grown up. |
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