Joni Mitchell - Marcie Lyrics
Marcie in a coat of flowers
Steps inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So she'll wash her flower curtains
Dust her tables with his shirt and
Wave another day goodbye
Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn green is summer
Greens are turning and the sand
All along the ocean beaches
Stares up empty at the sky
Marcie buys a bag of peaches
And summer goes
Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
Winter blows
Up from the river there's no one to take her
To the sea
Marcie dresses warm its snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and green's for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the Hudson River
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letter's been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines
Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream
Dream back to summer and hear how
he tells her
Wait for me
Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again
Other Lyrics by Artist
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- Joni Mitchell - The Beat Of Black Wings
- Joni Mitchell - Cool Water
- Joni Mitchell - Dancin' Clown
- Joni Mitchell - The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)
- Joni Mitchell - Lakota
- Joni Mitchell - Number One
- Joni Mitchell - My Secret Place
- Joni Mitchell - Lucky Girl
- Joni Mitchell - Impossible Dreamer
- Joni Mitchell - Ethiopia
- Joni Mitchell - Snakes And Ladders
- Joni Mitchell - The Reoccuring Dream
- Joni Mitchell - Ray's Dad's Cadillac
- Joni Mitchell - The Only Joy In Town
- Joni Mitchell - Nothing Can Be Done
- Joni Mitchell - Come In From The Cold
- Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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- Phil Collins - All Of My Life
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- Phil Collins - Find A Way To My Heart
- Phil Collins - Both Sides Of The Story
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Joni Mitchell Marcie Comments
Haunting, breathtaking and heartbreaking.
Without fear of exaggeration this is the saddest song in the world.
Joni Mitchell was my childhood. I remember drawing this song because it touched me so much.
Hey, just popped in to say Joni Mitchell was also my childhood, I also drew based on this particular song, and I also love me some fuckin JJBA.
This is just unbelievably good. It paints such a picture.....so many pictures of a life
Joni Mitchell for president
Wrong nationality 🙂
As a long term Mitchell fan, from this first album to the last, I still find this as one of her best. This song in particular carries an emotional tone that never fails to capture a sense of a lost soul - a woman who had placed everything on the promise of a man. Most of us at one time or another have had lost times that, looking back, we might wish for a do over. Yet, by not having those lonely and wistful times, we might have lost some necessary thing. Great song.
reds and greens....the references juggle.... real poetry.......
Of the songs of hers I've heard, this one, IMO, is the one that displays her remarkable voice the best. Extraordinary singing and control, and on those long-held notes, it seems like her lungs must go down to her toes. Has mesmerized me for over 40 years, and still hasn't lost it's impact.
One of the most beautiful and haunting songs I've ever heard.