Mitchell, Joni - Night In The City Lyrics






Light up light up
Light up your lazy blue eyes
Moon's up nights up
Taking the town by surprise
Night time night time
Day left an hour ago
City light time
Must you get ready so slow
There are places to come from and places to go

Night in the city looks pretty to me
Night in the city looks fine
Music comes spilling out into the street
Colors go flashing in time

Take off take off
Take off your stay-at-home shoes
Break off shake off
Chase off those stay-at-home blues
Stairway stairway
Down to the crowds in the street
They go their way
Looking for faces to greet
But we run on laughing with no one to meet

Night in the city looks pretty to me
Night in the city looks fine
Music comes spilling out into the street
Colors go waltzing in time





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  1. a.... ....

    Im going to teach the children this in opes that they will know the joy I know when I sing it

  2. J.... R....

    Great song

  3. E.... M....

    You have to listen to this amazing composition at least 6 times before you can put it together as a whole. Then you can listen a thousand times just digging the purity.

  4. E.... ....

    This sound spectacular when decoded into surround sound.

  5. S.... T....

    What a voice! Kids, don’t smoke, please.

  6. d.... b....

    Sang along with this when I was 11 years old :). Still love it <3

  7. E.... W....

    Beautiful. I've been listening to this song on loop for a few days now.

  8. L.... B....

    Her song... is a carrousel of notes, all dancing with fervour and joy. She is remarkable.

  9. h.... ....

    The strongest thing I did for Joni as a producer on Song to a Seagull, from 1968, was keep everybody else off of that record. She was a folkie who had learned to play what they call an indicated arrangement, where you are like a band in the way you approach a chord and string the melody along. She was so new and fresh with how she approached it. It's the reason I fell in love with her music. She was a fantastic rhythm player and growing so fast. She had mastered the idea that she could tune the guitar any way she wanted, to get other inversions of the chords. I was doing that too, but she went further. I understood her joy in using bigger tools later – jazz bands, orchestra. But the stuff she did that was basically her, like 1971's Blue, was her strongest stuff. Match her and Bob Dylan up as poets, and they are in the same ballpark. But she was a much more sophisticated musician. By David Crosby

    Key Tracks: "I Had a King," "Nathan La Franeer," "Night in the City," "Coyote," "A Case of You"

    h.... ....

    Out of all of her body of work, this is one of my absolute favorites, and out of all of her albums, Song to A Seagull is at the top of my list.

  10. C.... K....

    Good Lord, this is excellent!! Even better with a couple of cold beers, and a bowl.

  11. A.... G....

    Light up your lazy blue eyes x

    A.... G....

    Night in the city looks fine

  12. S.... H....

    A classic, in the same way that Bach and Schubert wrote classics, and so as imperishable. Thanks to Katharox Jefferson

  13. M.... ....

    Always uplifting, especially for those of us who have darker moments

    M.... ....

    Oh... you mean me... don't you ...

    M.... ....

    @Edward Harley you, me and too many others I fear

  14. K.... D....

    Beautiful, nice bass by Steven Stills!

  15. M.... ....

    What an astonishing, melodious, wonderful voice...

  16. M.... M....

    One of Joni's best! By the way, that's Stephen Stills on bass. Don't know who the piano player is, though.

    M.... M....

    leapsplashafrog Thanks very much!

  17. p.... ....

    the pianist is off the hook

  18. D.... G....

    My favorite Joni Mitchell song! <(:)

  19. t.... ....

    Covered by Three Dog Night 3 years later on their 3rd album, "Harmony". Both are in my Joni playlist. Thanks for the upload!

    t.... ....

    She does it best, but Three Dog's take runs a close second.

    t.... ....

    @Guy Sharwood Both Joni Mitchell & Three Dog Night do excellent versions of "Night In The City" IMHO.


    Bravo, Join & TDN!!! :-) <3

  20. E.... B....

    An early Joni hit (in Canada, anyway, where I was living at the time) and just wonderful. Wish it were better known and appreciated.

    E.... B....

    There's two kinds of people: those who are aware of Joni, and those who will be.

    Those who know her are well aware of this song.

    Those who will be, will be.

  21. r.... ....

    Joni is the most talented singer/songwriter of the past century... maybe longer... Unique and beautiful ... her, and her voice, as well as ALL of her songs

    r.... ....

    riverlightrider -The greatest forever and ever. Her music always blows me away, still as fresh as a flower after 45+ years.

    r.... ....

    You are so right on the money!! Joni is beautifully perched way up here...while everyone else grapples for position far below......