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Hejira
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By Joni Mitchell. Title track from the album. • The lyrics of this song are some of Joni's most profound. Pondering the significance of the need for relationships and the reason for existence, she declares: I know - no one's going to show me everything / We all come and go unknown / Each so deep and superficial / Between the forceps and the stone. • For this song, I'm playing in an entirely different tuning than Joni uses in the original for a key that's more appropriate for my voice, so some of the chords and voicings are slightly different. I also added a few chords of my own for the ending. • My tuning: EBEGAE (Original is: BF#C#EBD#) • HEJIRA • I'm traveling in some vehicle • I'm sitting in some café • A defector from the petty wars • That shell shock love away • There's comfort in melancholy • When there's no need to explain • It's just as natural as the weather • In this moody sky today • In our possessive coupling • So much could not be expressed • So now I'm returning to myself • These things that you and I suppressed • I see something of myself in everyone • Just at this moment of the world • As snow gathers like bolts of lace • Waltzing on a ballroom girl • You know, it never has been easy • Whether you do or you do not resign • Whether you travel the breadth of extremities • Or stick to some straighter line • Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock • They're either going to thaw out or freeze • Listen: • Strains of Benny Goodman • Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees • I'm porous with travel fever • But you know I'm so glad to be on my own • Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger • Can set up trembling in my bones • I know no one's going to show me everything • We all come and go unknown • Each so deep and superficial • Between the forceps and the stone • Well I looked at the granite markers • Those tribute to finality to eternity • And then I looked at myself here • Chicken scratching for my immortality • In the church they light the candles • And the wax rolls down like tears • There's the hope and the hopelessness • I've witnessed thirty years • We're only particles of change, I know, I know • Orbiting around the sun • But how can I have that point of view • When I'm always bound and tied to someone • White flags of winter chimneys • Waving truce against the moon • In the mirrors of a modern bank • From the window of a hotel room • I'm traveling in some vehicle • I'm sitting in some café • A defector from the petty wars • Until love sucks me back that way • #gnukev #jonimitchell #hejira #jacopastorius @JoniMitchell • @gnukev
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