Two Grey Rooms - Joni Mitchell

Joni originally wrote the music in 1982 and titled it Speechless. She completed the lyrics in 1989 and released Two Grey Rooms on the 1991 album NIGHT RIDE HOME. The instrumental Speechless was released as Two Grey Rooms (Demo Version) on 2003's JONI MITCHELL: THE COMPLETE GEFFEN RECORDINGS.

"It took me seven years to find words for it. I kept thinking, 'This thing wants to be written in French,' and I had to find the right story for the mood of it. It's a very dramatic melody, full of longing. So, I finally found a story in some magazine about a German aristocrat, a homosexual and friend of [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder, who had a lover in his youth that he never got over. He lost track of him for many years. One day, he discovered that his old flame was working on the docks. He moved out of his fancy digs and into a couple of dingy rooms that overlooked the route where, with his hard hat and his lunch pail, his ex-lover walked to work. He lived to glimpse him twice a day, coming and going. He never approached him."
-----Complete Geffen Recordings - Album Notes by Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday
Now there's only one day left to go
Till you walk by
Below my window
The weekends drive me mad
Holidays are oh too sad
'Cause you don't go
Below my window

No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
When you walk by
Below my window

You look so youthful
Time has been untruthful
Heaven knows I loved you
30 years ago
Hot days your shirt's undone
Rainy days you run
Oh and then you fade so fast
Below my window

No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
Only when you walk by
Below my window
When you walk by

Below my window
Below my window
Hey hey
Below my window
Below my window
Below my window

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[oneeyedstar]

Allways loved this, so nice to see a clip of it too. Saint Joini.

[exoxide]

is a masterpiece ,it's very emotional. Heaven only knows how much I love this song...

Merci beaucoup Madame Joni...your music will be my friend for ever...:)

[CDCANDIES]

@NickJxuk Fassbinder had an unrequited love for another man and so, he suppossedly rented out a room with a view near what was his ''heart'', if only to see him pass by being unable to have his love returned anyother way.....

[lvsiii]

Ineffable longing, intense feeling and winter melancholy fill my heart and moisten my eyes as I listen.

[thelasonj]

This song is so lovely. Really brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.

[qualityshazam]

Joni is an indigo, meaning that her soul is a being in the seventh dimension; whereas the rest of us (who do have souls) have souls dwelling in the sixth dimension. This information is beyond the logic circuits of the surface mind, so just try to feel the truth of this - in the same way that you feel the truth of Joni's observations. Other indigos are Tesla, Einstein, Yeats, Ben Franklin, Rudyar, DD Palmer, Black Elk, Beethoven, Hiromi Uehara, Jeane Dixon, Groucho.

(shazam33.geo@y)

[somaliCABdriver]

I love to "play" my bass guitar along with this one...she has to be the best lyricist (spelling) alive...sorry dylan...

[OlymPigs2010]

......time has been untruthful...heaven knows....

[svrex]

The Same Situation", "a pretty girl in your bathroom, checking out her sex appeal", "Well I told you when you said you loved me, do you think this can be real"

The piano is somewhat reminiscent of this piece too.

[novascotiawill]

@Prokifiev ... glad to hear it! This song is so passionate and intense... beautiful, typical Joni Mitchell! She is a genius...