Song Lyrics

Don't Interrupt The Sorrow

by Joni Mitchell

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says "Your notches, liberation doll"
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall

Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
She's a vengeful little goddess
With an ancient crown to fight

Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
Winds of change patriarchs
Snug in your bible belt dreams
God goes up the chimney
Like childhood Santa Claus
The good slaves love the good book
A rebel loves a cause

I'm leaving on the 1:15
You're darn right
Since I was seventeen
I've had no one over me
He says "Anima rising
So what
Petrified wood process
Tall timber down to rock"

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says "We walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
He says "Bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty mighty thirst"

Seventeen glasses
Rhine wine
Milk of the Madonna
Clandestine
He don't let up the sorrow
He lies and he cheats
It takes a heart like Mary's these days
When your man gets weak

Transcriptions of Don't Interrupt The Sorrow

Don't Interrupt The Sorrow has been recorded by 16 other artists

Adams, Oleta (from "Third Set" - 2017)
Geyster (from "Past Winter, Vol. 1" - 2018)
Kennedy, Brian (from "A Love Letter to Joni - Volume 2" - 2023)
Lero (from "Four-Nine In Ether" - 2014)
Levine, Duke (from "The Fade Out" - 2016)
Mehldau, Brad (from "A Tribute To Joni Mitchell" - 2007)
Moerman, Patrice (- 2010)
Monika Herzig & Janiece Jaffe (from "Both Sides Of Joni" - 2023)
Morrissey (from "California Son" - 2019)
Redtenbacher's Funkestra (from "BOTH SIDES NOW: AN HOMAGE TO THE SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL " - 2023)
Richards, Nicki (from "The Songs of Joni Mitchell: A Soulful Tribute" - 2017)
Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (- )
Santing, Mathilde (- 2016)
Santing, Mathilde (from "Both Sides Now (Live)" - 2020)
Williams, Felicity (- 2010)
Wolf, Izzi (- )
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Mike_Shupp on 2021-Dec-30 at 05:45:31 GMT-5:

I love the above-linked related article. "In flames our prophet witches," I tweeted about it here https://twitter.com/MikeShupp/status/1457781610959360012
...in it the writer states he's no Joni Mitchell buff, and had only recently heard the song... and hadn't yet dared to listen to anything else, fearing nothing would be as good...!