wish I could unhear it so I could hear for first time again
@CorporateShoes
5 жыл бұрын
just heard it for the first time for you
@ronmorrissey8575
4 жыл бұрын
Gary Peatling don’t listen to it for a year. Put it on your Calendar to listen to it 1 year from now?
@Strimbles
4 жыл бұрын
It's great every time
@youbian
3 жыл бұрын
Or live
@bonbon2355
2 жыл бұрын
Beautifully stated 💕
@roberthurley6860
Жыл бұрын
How lucky we are to have walked the earth at the same time as this great lady and for her sharing her beautiful music with us.
@paulgraham4293
5 ай бұрын
i have thought that same thing many, many times
@jojoba11
7 жыл бұрын
There's something about Joni's songs that get stuck in your head like nothing else. This one is so beautiful.
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
whitecookie absolutely agree with that 💕💙💙
@circleoffifth9048
2 жыл бұрын
So true
@peterthepersonalstylist
13 жыл бұрын
THUMBS UP IF YOUR LOVE OF JONI MITCHELL BROUGHT YOU HERE...
@emerald764
10 жыл бұрын
'Her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree'... what a great line. Such a genius lyricist. Her first album is one of my favorites.
@nunya1738
10 жыл бұрын
No shortage of those, has she. The way she delivers the line, too...holding tree, at the end, as if she is crying, sad, alone...the price of her freedom intimated. One of a number of her songs that flat made me cry upon first and subsequent listens. Such bare bones honesty.
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
emerald764 absolute genius
@douggbloch
5 жыл бұрын
Mine too
@danpro4519
3 жыл бұрын
It's a "send chills" line for sure.
@clearfield2009
9 ай бұрын
She is pure genius 🩷
@stephen25uk
9 жыл бұрын
What more can one say about Joni that has not already been said. For those that get it she's the greatest musical and poetic genius ever. For those that don't? well, sorry for you.
@gigidayz6936
5 жыл бұрын
Agree completely
@adamwhite8580
5 жыл бұрын
its interesting to me that the Beatles didnt write one song comparable to the best Joni M songs, and yet they are lauded for their exceptional song writing skills. The palette of sounds JM used in her guitar and piano writing is unsurpassed in my view.
@futuropasado
4 жыл бұрын
There are more poetic genius, theres not one above all. Van morrison, Dylan, Crosby, Brian wilson, Cohen...
@keithmccaslyn2527
3 жыл бұрын
Jimi Hendrix,Mitch Mitchell and Joni hung out all nigt in a hotel room,singing,talking,playing..into the wee hours of the night..... the next day,Jimi asked Joni if he could record her performance that night! he brought his big Tenec Taper recorder and did so.... Joni's something speacial,play on drummer,play on Jimi and Play on Joni. we love ya forever....
@hansbass1939
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@bonbon2355
2 жыл бұрын
This amazing song describes my life when I was in my twenties. I am still busy being free but no more love in my life at age of 73. I absolutely love this song and this brilliant artist💕
@1234saluki
2 жыл бұрын
You must Love yourself no matter what. xxoo
@barbararenton8009
2 жыл бұрын
Me, too...
@bonbon2355
Жыл бұрын
@@1234saluki Yes I do♥️
@sagem8885
9 ай бұрын
im 19 now and i found this song last year, i hope ill grow as u do and always stay busy being free
@ulper7282
8 жыл бұрын
There are no words. Such a brilliant woman. Hauntingly beautiful. There will never be another like Joni.
@yarbles67
10 жыл бұрын
reminds me of my trippy sister. she tried hard back in the day to turn me on to joni, dylan, etc.. instead, I listened to the Archies, Sean Cassidy or other bubble gum pop. It wasn't until I got into my mid 30s that I rediscovered Joni. My sister cornered me and made me listen to Blue all the way through over a bottle of wine. Thank God I did.
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
yarbles67 amazing story 💕
@roofdweller
5 жыл бұрын
Having a child secretly at 19 y/o can plunge one into creative depths, rich ones for Joni. She mines depths.
@deansongs
5 жыл бұрын
over a bottle of wine. :)
@artistgirl1489
4 ай бұрын
Aw what a great story
@geoffgw
15 жыл бұрын
I am 51 years old, a father and I have a 20 yr old daughter and tell her this I think of her when I hear this and offer her this advice, "....just be busy being free!" Joni's songs and her voice are one of our greatest treasures, in any age!
@jeanhartely
12 жыл бұрын
I first heard this song when I was 16. Now I'm 50. I am getting older, but this song sounds as beautiful, sad, new, as when I first heard it. Thanks for posting.
@danhaas
14 жыл бұрын
Dynamics, live on stage. One with her guitar and her song. She IS her song. Chords caress her flute-like voice. And someone, thankfully, caught it on film. This is music, folks -- life-saving, true, tapped into juice of the human experience, the times and all-time, holy shit did-you-hear-that? music!
@debbieschmidling8158
Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤
@dumbleboy5213
7 жыл бұрын
There's a man who's been out sailing, in a decade full of dreams. And he takes her to a schooner, and he treats her like a queen. Bearing beads from California, with their amber stones and green. He has called her from the harbor, he has kissed her with his freedom, he has heard her off to starboard in the breaking and the breathing of the water weeds. While she was busy being free. There's a man who's climbed a mountain, and he's calling out her name, and he hopes her heart can hear, 3,000 miles he calls again, he can think her there beside him, he can miss her just the same. He has missed her in the forest, while he showed her all the flowers, and the branches sang the chorus, as he climbed the scaly towers of a forest tree. While she was somewhere being free. There's a man who sent a letter and he's waiting for her reply. He has asked her of her travels since the day they said goodbye. He writes, "Wish you were beside me, we could make it if we try." He has seen her at the office, with her name on all his papers, through the sharing of the profits, he will find it hard to shake her from these memories. And she's so busy being free. There's a lady, in the city, and she thinks she loves them all. There's the one who's thinking of her, There's the one who sometimes calls. There's the one who writes her letters, with his facts and figures scrawl. She has brought them to her senses, they have laughed inside her laughter. Now she rallies her defenses, for she fears that one will ask her for eternity. And she's so busy being free. There's a man who sends her medals, he is bleeding from the war. There's a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store. There's a drummer, and a dreamer, and you know there may be more . She will love them when she sees them, they will lose her if they follow. And she only means to please them, and her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree. While she's so busy being free. Like a cactus tree- Being free.
@ddat11
12 жыл бұрын
Every time I listen to this song it takes me back to the 60's. There are so many wonderful women singer songwriters but no one comes close to Joni Mitchell.
@hen3916
7 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful. Makes my heart ache and my eyes well with emotion. Why aren't there more artists today with this purity and beauty. No need for artificial promotion. Just pure poetry and voice.
@doglover31418
7 жыл бұрын
What baffles me is how she wrote a song in her early twenties which pretty much tells the story of her life. As with her 'Both sides now'. How does somebody that young just do that?
@Doroshi43
5 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... I thought it was MY life she was singing....
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
Dean Glover pure , true soul
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
Doroshi43 I feel that connection too - I think that’s what makes it such an incredible song , it’s so unsuspectingly relatable and universal
@osahju914
5 жыл бұрын
This is her life story?
@ronmorrissey8575
4 жыл бұрын
Dean Glover , Devine Intervention.
@9thedreaming9
12 жыл бұрын
Best version of this song. I'm crying like a baby now! Totally flood of memories.
@mikeforeveryoung64
11 жыл бұрын
There is only one Joni Mitchell and she is the greatest
@ulper7282
12 жыл бұрын
No one past or present can touch the genius of Joni
@cadwalladee01
15 жыл бұрын
Everything.... the woman is poetry in the flesh...
@DiMichelleMuller
10 жыл бұрын
The lyrics in the last verse are devastating. Amazing.
@TheNigelr
14 жыл бұрын
When she passes, so will a generation that will never be replaced; dear Lord let my time end adjacent
@themistermax
3 жыл бұрын
1970. I think I saw her live that year. And maybe a few other years. It all blends together. But 50 years later, I still can't get enough of her. Maybe *the* artist of our generation.
@warriordrum
12 жыл бұрын
Joni is the greatest female songwriter of all time. Her astonishing inventiveness, lyrics that are poetry first and then words, voice that is angelic....hard to imagine modern culture ever producing someone better.
@tiffanygeaudreau7383
10 жыл бұрын
She sang this on my birthday, 9 years before I was born, and somehow it was still for me and I've discovered it now 43 years later, when I needed it most.
@Doroshi43
5 жыл бұрын
She keeps doing that.... I will be 75 next week, and this song is for my life from 22 to 66.... I cry every time I hear it.
@jessicaasch1635
3 жыл бұрын
THIS!! Yes! very cool Tiffany
@typeslikeamonkey
11 жыл бұрын
I just heard this for the first time and it made me cry.
@piralswis
12 жыл бұрын
Don't now how 12 "people" can possibly dislike this suspended moment in time ; anyway... I'm crying. Long live Joni.
@foggy4180
11 жыл бұрын
This voice takes you right up to heaven.....
@Agoateeman
15 жыл бұрын
Decades later and this song still moves me like nothing else. Her soul and poetry just pour on through.
@stoogeforlife
8 жыл бұрын
If this song came out today, the media would cast dark unflattering remarks about all her suspended lovers. But this song is sung into the times it was written and it comes off as eerily beautiful and soft to the heart. Hard to resist it candor, and her voice is never better. I can only name 5 songs that have knocked me down, and held my breath while listening to its masterful delivery and composition. This is one of them.
@leapsplashafrog
8 жыл бұрын
Please name the other ones must be good ... :)
@osahju914
5 жыл бұрын
I somehow doubt she would’ve been scrutinized so negatively. But this is beautiful ...you’re right
@elisakrivas
8 ай бұрын
@@osahju914 yes. She would've.
@refundrick
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful.
@AlecKurth
Ай бұрын
Fantastic. What a song. What a person and a life. She takes care of every word, note, stance, glances at the audience, and inward glances at the memories embodying it all.
@Hajnikovmuz
11 жыл бұрын
she's so busy being free... aren't we all? in the process, we forget the essentials...
@seekeroftruthful
10 жыл бұрын
What happens when we are all gone? Will anyone remember the sweetness when each of us heard her for the first time, and we instantly fell in love with her? I am so glad I have lived when I have, no regrets except for the saddness I have experienced, so much saddness.
@alone15151
4 жыл бұрын
Written in a simpler time. Bravo for a woman at that time to want her freedom and not a trip to the alter. Much love for Joni ♡
@d181939
6 жыл бұрын
I have always loved this song. Her first album has always been my favorite. Got to see her at Carnegie Hall in February of 1972. I got to say hello after the show and I was SO smitten,
@douggbloch
5 жыл бұрын
d181939 I also saw her at Carnegie Hall
@mizdeb1
10 ай бұрын
David Crosby said, once you're in love with Joni, you're always in love with her.
@TiyeeglowTV
5 жыл бұрын
Love this ❤️ song
@MelancholyCool
13 жыл бұрын
@HolyMotherofGrid Cactus tree is from Joni's first album, "Songs to a Seagull". You can get it on amazon.com. Buy it! It's the most hauntingly beautiful thing she ever did. Every song is a gem. My favorite is "Marcy". I heard it on the radio when I was18 years old...that would have been 1969, and I have loved it ever since. I still play the album just about every day. Have it on my mp3 player and on my computer at work, along with just about everything else that she has done. .
@missdee4927
2 жыл бұрын
oh how I love this song and the theme of it.
@Chuckolson5
12 жыл бұрын
this song has always been so sweet yet haunting and menlancholy to me. Classic Joni Mitchell a tinge of sadness and beauty at the same time
@freespyrit
3 жыл бұрын
Such beauty and poetic allusion here. Melancholic expectation. Her lyrics are more than words. Her expression of her internity transcends mere thoughts and feelings. Her sounds and her breathing and her beating heart drill down so dark and deep. Yet you can't put your finger on it. It just is.
@musicmaker9325
9 жыл бұрын
just pure magic - beautiful - hauntingly and achingly so
@jamesm.holtzman1528
9 жыл бұрын
I see my beautiful sister Jan in her voice. She is gone now but the music lives...
@winesap2
5 жыл бұрын
An incredible version of an incredible song. I've heard it thousands of times and it still gets to me.
@carolinen5396
10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song, I just heard it in the movie "A Walk on the Moon" and fell in luv with it, so peaceful.
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
caroline n I LOVE that movie 💕💕💙
@moboutmen
3 жыл бұрын
Pure emotion. Small wonder so many wanted her.
@therealdmt
17 жыл бұрын
I read a lot of bittersweet rememberances here, of a time so beautiful and perfect -- if only we could get back to it, back to the garden. Me too. Me too. Oh Joni, my eyes are filled with tears listening to your songs tonight (no joke). So beautiful.
@baronvonegas
9 жыл бұрын
I confess that I need to prepare myself before hearding her songs. Thanks for your inspiration Joni.
@MarkMacKay
9 жыл бұрын
We usually listen to Joni Mitchell when we're going to sleep at night. This song is one of my favorites.
@4711StGermain
5 жыл бұрын
S M I L E ….
@Lissyhead2
12 жыл бұрын
I just discovered this song. I think it's one of the most beautiful I've ever heard. I love old artists who still keep giving. :)
@roxylila
17 жыл бұрын
Cette chanson, me transporte, j'oublie tout, sa voix est si douce, j'adore...
@woodessence
15 жыл бұрын
I don't think I have ever heard and felt such feeling music.
@moseyalong1
12 жыл бұрын
I am 69 y/o, male, lifetime amateur musician, composer. I watch and listen to Joni to hear something beautiful, almost every day. I enjoyed most of the famous pop groups all my life, but I didn't listen to her pop-jazz compositions from the mid 70's on until this year. I don't think she got much airtime for her pop-jazz compositions after the early 70's, but some of her most beautiful music was ,yet, to come, and I missed it until KZitem, 2012.
@8488bigboy
13 жыл бұрын
Shes one of a kind...never be matched
@DavidJones-wz2wg
4 жыл бұрын
Few songs can put tears in my eyes nearly every time I hear them. Spontaneous tears of emotion for the beauty and pathos the words and music. This song is one of them.
@Agoateeman
14 жыл бұрын
everyone is unique, some more unique than others - and this is true of her artistic genius. there is no one out there really quite like her. oh sure there are loads of great singer songwriters, but none of them have her soul and ability to write and sing poetry with her special touch.
@Kirkunik1
10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful artistic genius.
@KaliRea
5 жыл бұрын
S Kirk yes , absolutely
@bridgetsundin7016
9 жыл бұрын
I love you Joni always and forever. Thank you for teaching me how to be with my feelings.
@chanmi1957
10 жыл бұрын
A lovely lady. Always calming to my soul. Many years we have traveled together in song. Beauty and grace is she.
@The333Wanderer
4 жыл бұрын
God's angel of music.
@johnnydtractive
6 жыл бұрын
woke up shortly after 3 am with this song running thru my head, despite not having listened to it for a decade or more. Oh Joni...
@futuropasado
3 жыл бұрын
one of the greatest songs ever
@mlopez657
17 жыл бұрын
Joni,Thank you so much for sharing the world with such beautiful music and poetry...You are simply awesome! Listening to you simply made life worth living...Not to mention you look incredibly gorgeous the older you get...
@chrissnuggs
4 жыл бұрын
She can almost make me believe in God, for her gift is surely divine .
@akimjongun
3 жыл бұрын
cactus tree is probably my all-time favorite by her now. i've never heard anything more breathtaking and instantly enchanting than this song is to me. joni truly is special, there's absolutely no doubt about it. complete and utter magic taking the form of music
@m.r.2183
3 жыл бұрын
Artistry. This song takes me apart every time I hear it.
@BWGuitman1
11 жыл бұрын
I love this song--absolutely magnificent--and what an incredible live performance. I saw Joni once, live, in 1979 or 1980. Wouldn't I have loved to see her earlier in her career. Thank goodness for you tube.
@Strimbles
4 жыл бұрын
INCREDIBLE
@zorawhitfield9980
Жыл бұрын
I am busy being free... rallying my defenses for anything that asks for my eternity... with a heart full and hallow as a cactus tree 🌵
@kjfoehr
14 жыл бұрын
Words are not adequate to describe the beauty of this song and this performance. Just listen, again and again. She is a gift to us all; I will cherish it always.
@Brejan
14 жыл бұрын
What happend to us? That's what we used to have, and now? Lady Gaga? Katy Perry? Really? We used to be stardust, we used to be golden... I wasn't even born yet, and still I miss those days. Music meant something back then. People cared about fragile things, intangible stuff. It's as if the soul of popular culture burned so bright back then, it burned out. Tell people about this music, about Joni and Simon & Garfunkel and Donovan and others... the best of humanity is forever in their songs.
@mt-nv4jd
4 жыл бұрын
Exquisite performance. There will never be another Joni.
@paulhoworth9600
2 жыл бұрын
Joni you are so incredible, words can never capture just how amazing you are. Please don't ever change.
I love almost every song this woman ever made but this is my favorite.
@Thurisaz314159
13 жыл бұрын
Joni Mitchell songs were some of my earliest memories and I love her to this day.
@GLOBALHEDD
5 жыл бұрын
Christ almighty what a talent.
@LAwoman1956
14 жыл бұрын
Joni always inspired me...she's been a part of my life for decades.
@carlinhaml1
13 жыл бұрын
Joni got me through a 6-hour study session. Thank God for music like this.
@lasvegaslady702
10 жыл бұрын
Gosh, it's as if I could've penned these lyrics..Very touching and beautiful from her heart...from movie, "A Walk In The Moon"..I love Joni Mitchell for her truth..
@nunya1738
10 жыл бұрын
Is that the Diane Lane, Viggo movie? I believe I saw a good portion of that once, though not all. I love Joni Mitchell for many things, the least of them most definitely not being that she is a truth teller. Most folks hate those, but I don't. She has recently joined my personal Mt. Rushmore, along with Muhammad Ali and George Carlin--all time greats unafraid to speak truth. Good to read you, Eileen Bento.
@lasvegaslady702
10 жыл бұрын
Yes it is, good love story movie..
@lasvegaslady702
10 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm with you. I like when people stand up for their rights n morals..
@mtnmusix
15 жыл бұрын
I grew up on Joni...she's great...I love this song. She wrote some great lyrics. Thanks for posting.
@joanlagoy
16 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful pure voice. Love ya Joni! j.melatti
@eldoradoreefgold
15 жыл бұрын
how impossiblly beautiful can one creature be???she runs through me like a lifelong pulse....graceful,selfeffacing,potent,massively talented in so way arts....enchantment of others ...the prime talent!!what a world she weaves before our very eyes!
@normalil
16 жыл бұрын
She is ageless. Her songs will go on and on
@N89J00X
13 жыл бұрын
This song is more moving to me now than it was back then. I understand it better now. I just watched a documentary about her on Netflix and it was awesome!
@rabbitfishtv
6 жыл бұрын
This song offers such a complex character portrait. It’s too simple to read it as a critique of an independent woman. The men are portrayed as romantics, trying to create a princess out of her, while she demands to follow her own path. But in a world that follows scripts, there is a price to pay for honesty and independence. But even that summation is too simple. The woman might eventually be running out of habit. Complex and beautiful.
@Mellymoo1111
9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful song one of my favorites she's so busy being free......
@GLOBALHEDD
3 жыл бұрын
How could she do such a thing?! Harness this power to just destroy me in 3 minutes? Evil evil magical genius.
@thewordlives
17 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing this one.. the love of God is like the amazon flowing down.... to water one daisy just me
@deanbarkanic1436
3 жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favorite songs EVER!!! And Joni??? All-time favorite!!!
@annathielfoldt
14 жыл бұрын
Beauty is wide. Beauty makes you cry, makes you laugh, makes you happy. Ugliness can be beautifull. Beauty can be beautifull. Beauty is wide.
@justintime42000
12 жыл бұрын
Is there anyone with more lyrical insight into being a woman than Joni Mitchell? I think not. It's a shame her songs aren't being heard as much these days because they are timeless treasures.
@deerejohn47
5 ай бұрын
Love this SO much Just discovered this two nights ago. Listened 30 plus times so far!!
@HouseConcertHub
15 жыл бұрын
It's hard to think of anyone isn't it? So few people really put that poetry into their lyrics. This is one of my favourite songs of hers. Absolutely stunning.
@AcoU2sticMike
16 жыл бұрын
It doesn't get much better than this.
@joefarrell7318
9 жыл бұрын
There may well be many better or more beautiful songs than this our there but i haven't heard them. Get well soon Joni. Much love.
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