Joni Mitchell "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow"

Original recording from Hissing Of Summer Lawns LP


"Don't Interrupt The Sorrow"

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says "Your notches, liberation doll"
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall

Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
She's a vengeful little goddess
With an ancient crown to fight

Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
Winds of change patriarchs
Snug in your bible belt dreams
God goes up the chimney
Like childhood Santa Claus
The good slaves love the good book
A rebel loves a cause

I'm leaving on the 1:15
You're darn right
Since I was seventeen
I've had no one over me
He says "Anima rising
So what
Petrified wood process
Tall timber down to rock"

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says "We walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
He says "Bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty mighty thirst"

Seventeen glasses
Rhine wine
Milk of the Madonna
Clandestine
He don't let up the sorrow
He lies and he cheats
It takes a heart like Mary's these days
When your man gets weak

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[tweetyli1]

I remember the moment I first heard this song sitting in a car in a parking lot. I was in an abusive marriage and the words caused something to rise in my heart. Another woman was validating me, speaking truth, and it was the first step that led me to my freedom from an impossible situation. I'll always be grateful to Joni. I love her music and I believe she saved my life.

[mrrichardfeder]

Maybe greatest verse ever:

Truth goes up in vapors

The steeples lean

Winds of change patriarchs

Snug in your bible belt dreams

God goes up the chimney

Like childhood Santa Claus

The good slaves love the good book

A rebel loves a cause

[skyiscrying53]

As Q-Tip said-Joni Mitchell never lies! She is the Truth!

[Auntkekebaby]

Lyrics!!! :))

[professormacdeezy]

Is this where the hardcore fans meet up ;)

[TheGoddessDJ]

saves me

[SupernalOne]

what a man she describes - alternately threatening, condescending, and self-pitying - no wonder she left

[sortofsorted]

hissing of summer lawns album sure hits the spot with a glass of wine!!!!..lights low...and mobile off!!!!!!..

[nosnayack]

Whats better than one Joni? Joni overdubbed into a mystical choir singing notes

over chords from a pace deep in her heart. I love her for that. Such beauty. She just opened up the world to me. Nothing was out of reach. Not Jazz, not poetry,

not an artist who instinctively rebelled. She got me through some painful times.

But I still listen stop and acknowledge a true original and innovator who forever touched my heart. Love you joni! Thank YOu!

[nosnayack]

My favorite album. Shades of Scarlet Conquering I discover at 15 years and would play over and over because she painted such a beautiful portrait of a disgustingly

selfish woman. Such a deep understanding, but never any kind of approval for what this Scarlett was, Joni walked a different road. But the depth of compassion

and the otherworldly music. What an arrangement. Must have played this song 50 times. So much to absorb. Sweet BIrd I came to love as well.

[breachborn]

@tweetyli1

Bless Your Heart! Yes, without Wimmin validating our intuition this world would be

the darkest planet in this entire cosmos. Peace and Blessings!!

[Agoateeman]

when she was at the top of her game, no one and i mean no one could touch her for her sheer artistic heights. decades later i still revel in her music despite discovering many new artists along the way. we are so blessed to have her among us...