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This song appears on the album 'Miles of Aisles'

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All I Want

by Joni Mitchell   Printer-friendly version of this lyric

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me

I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on

All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause - Life is our cause
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws
Do you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby
So I hurt you too
Then we both get so blue.

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It's the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be
I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun
I want to be the one that you want to see
I want to knit you a sweater
Want to write you a love letter
I want to make you feel better
I want to make you feel free
I want to make you feel free


© 1970; Joni Mitchell

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All I Want has been recorded by 73 others

Allyson, Karrin (from "Wild For You" - 2004)
Anne, Emely  (from "Covers" - 2006)
Big Yellow Taxi (from "Unknown And Famous Songs Of Joni Mitchell" - 2006)
Brannan, Jay (from "In Living Cover" - 2009)
Brook, Holly (from "Connect Sets" - 2006)
Canoura, Laura ()
Chappell Kingsland (from "this 'n' that" )
Cold War Kids (from "The Interface Performance" )
Complexblue (from "Knot The Thought That Counts" - 2000)
Corrigan, Tricia (from "A Different Kind Of Beautiful" - 2004)
Curry, Tim (from "Read My Lips" - 1978)
DeCaro,Nick  (from "Italian Graffiti" - 1974)
Dworsky, Sally (from "Start It All Over Again" - 2006)
D’Agostino & Oxley  (from "Double Singular " - 2006)
Elly May Quintet (from "Laughing at life " - 2007)
Emborg/Larsen Quintet (from "Heart of the Matter " - 1991)
Entropy (- 2010)
Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell (from "Pour a Little Everything Else" - 2009)
Eugene Van Beethoven (from "Sin Funny" - 1989)
Finegold, Amanda & Chad Preston (from "The White Coat Album" - 2000)
Ford, Dorian (from "Songs" - 2002)
Frankhouse (from "Thought versus emotion" - 2009)
Generations (from "Millenial Child/Waiting For You" - 2002)
Hancock, Herbie (from "River - The Joni Letters" - 2007)
Heffernan, Honor (from "The Other Side" - 2006)
Henderson, Jane (from "It Might Be Spring" - 1994)
Howard & The Urban Foxes ()
Inis Fail (from "Rebound" - 2006)
Iris Koch - Werner Tharandt (from "Lieder von Joni Mitchell, Cheryl Wheeler, Iris Koch u.a." - 1980)
Jang, Jon (from "Self-Portrait" - 1999)
Jarrett, Keith  (from "The Mourning Of A Star" - 1971)
Krog, Karin (from "We Could Be Flying" - 1974)
Kuhn, Judy (- 2007)
Leora Cashe & The Ross Taggart Trio  (from "Another Side Now - The Songs of Joni Mitchell" - 2007)
Lua Hadar with Twist (from "Lua Hadar with Twist" - 2008)
Lucia, Elaine (from "Elaine Lucia Sings Jazz & Other Things" - 2001)
Lydia Van Dam Group (from "Both Sides Now" - 1999)
Marchesini, Paula (- 2007)
Marcovicci, Andrea  (from "Here, There & Everywhere" - 2000)
Maria Pia De Vito, Danilo Rea,Enzo Pietropaoli, Aldo Romano (from "So Right" - 2005)
Martel, Kristi (from "unreleased live recording" - 2001)
Martone, Fabiana (from "Flowers" - 2009)
McCarron Brothers (from "Way Down in Brooklyn" - 2009)
Merchant, Natalie (from "Wonder (CD-Single)" - 1996)
Mortensen, Malene  (from "Date With a Dream" - 2005)
Niemack, Judy (from "Heart's Desire" - 1992)
Nothing But Treble (from "Trebutantes" - 1995)
Peters, Kate (from "Sojourn Ver. 3.1" - 2000)
Pettersson, Linda (from "Who Are You" - 2004)
Porteus, Barbara (from "Barbara Porteus" - 2009)
Rachel Z Trio (from "Moon At The Window" - 2002)
Raknes, Steiner (from "Tangos, Ballads & More" - 2008)
Ruiz, Ela (from " Ábreme La Puerta" - 2004)
Sally, Ann (from "Voyage" - 2001)
Scott, Dorothy (from "Pass It On" - 2007)
Slean, Sarah (- 2007)
Stevens, Suzanne (from "Crystal Carriage" - 1977)
Sublett, Linda ()
The Big Jump Band (- 1973)
The Bryan Thomas Band (from "PazFest - The New Orleans Tribute to Joni Mitchell at the Howlin' Wolf" - 2002)
The Chorallaries (from "Pokerface" - 2001)
The Homemade Orchestra (from "Inside Covers" - 2004)
The Joint Chiefs (from "It Matches Your Juice" - 2001)
The Practicers (from "Smooth & Raw" - 2000)
The Skot Veroczi Quartet (from "Out Of The Blue" )
The Supremes (from "The Supremes" - 1972)
Thomson, Dawn (from "Imagine That" - 2000)
Traut/Rodby (from "The Great Lawn" - 1989)
Upper Left Trio (from "Sell Your Soul Side" - 2006)
van Wely, Rob (from "ELSA" - 2008)
Volker Niehusmann & Christiane Weber (from "Another Blue" - 1997)
Ward, Doni (- 2010)
Wolf, Patrick (- 2009)
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