Lyrics Off Night Backstreet - Joni Mitchell

Maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say I love you

I don't know--

Loving without trusting

You get--frostbite and sunstroke

I wish I felt nothing!

You pimp--laughing and strutting her to my chartered seat

Your old off night back street

It's been stinger to stinger, darling

It's been heart to heart

You still keep me from finishing

Any new love I start

Now she's moved in with you

She's keeping your house neat

And your sheets sweet

And I'm your off night back street

I can feel your fingers

Feeling my face

There are some lines you put there

And some you erase

Maybe I'm just dramatizing

I don't care

It's home--it can be heaven

When we play fair

But these sentimental journeys

Late at night--

High in some back room you're calling me

To be your off night back street

You give me such pleasure

You bring me such pain

Who left her long black hair

In our bathtub drain?

Writer(s): Joni Mitchell

Album The Studio Albums (1968-1979)

date of release

29-10-2012

1 I Had A King
2 Sweet Sucker Dance
3 Michael From Mountains
4 Coin In The Pocket
5 Night In The City
6 The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
7 Marcie
8 Lucky
9 Nathan La Franeer
10 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
11 Sisotowbell Lane
12 The Dawntreader
13 The Pirate Of Penance
14 Song To A Seagull
15 Cactus Tree
16 Tin Angel
17 Chelsea Morning
18 I Don't Know Where I Stand
19 That Song About The Midway
20 Roses Blue
21 The Gallery
22 I Think I Understand
23 Songs To Aging Children Come
24 The Fiddle And The Drum
25 Both Sides Now
26 Morning Morgantown
27 For Free
28 Conversation
29 Ladies of the Canyon
30 Willy
31 The Arrangement
32 Rainy Night House
33 The Priest
34 Blue Boy
35 Big Yellow Taxi
36 Woodstock
37 The Circle Game
38 All I Want
39 My Old Man
40 Little Green
41 Carey
42 Blue
43 California
44 This Flight Tonight
45 River
46 A Case Of You
47 The Last Time I Saw Richard
48 Banquet
49 Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
50 Barangrill
51 Lesson In Survival
52 Let The Wind Carry Me
53 For The Roses
54 See You Sometime
55 Electricity
56 You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
57 Blonde In The Bleachers
58 Woman Of Heart And Mind
59 Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune)
60 Court And Spark
61 Help Me
62 Free Man In Paris
63 People's Parties
64 Same Situation
65 Car On A Hill
66 Down To You
67 Just Like This Train
68 Raised On Robbery
69 Trouble Child
70 Twisted
71 In France They Kiss On Main Street
72 The Jungle Line
73 Edith And The Kingpin
74 Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
75 Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
76 The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
77 The Boho Dance
78 Harry's House / Centerpiece
79 Sweet Bird
80 Shadows And Light
81 Coyote
82 Amelia
83 Furry Sings The Blues
84 A Strange Boy
85 Hejira
86 Song For Sharon
87 Black Crow
88 Blue Motel Room
89 Refuge Of The Roads
90 Overture - Cotton Avenue
91 Talk to Me
92 Jericho - Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8/14-17, 1974
93 Paprika Plains
94 Otis and Marlena
95 The Tenth World
96 Dreamland
97 Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
98 Off Night Backstreet
99 The Silky Veils of Ardor
100 Happy Birthday 1975
101 God Must Be A Boogie Man
102 Funeral
103 A Chair In The Sky
104 The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey
105 I's A Muggin'

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