(strums) some other things from both sides (tunes). I remember as a boy having dreamed up at clouds a lot and having seen the cloud from both sides now, I suppose I shouldn't really be amazed by anything." And I like the idea of clouds from both sides and. And while he was up in the plane to Africa to find out what life was all about for him, he looked out of the plane window and he said, um, you know, "Look at those clouds down there it's very strange to look at the clouds from up above them. So he said "Well, I'll go along with you" and he did. "So one day his friends, who were about to leave for Africa on a honeymoon, said, "Well, why don't you come along with us?" And, uh, that sounds really peculiar but they were getting married for something like the third time themselves. He tried pig ranching, he figured that was pretty earthy, and, uh, decided that he didn't like pigs either. And so he tried to be earthy and get his hands into the soil. And he was very guilty about his wealth-because it was inherited. He'd been married twice and was contemplating a third marriage and wasn't really sure that he liked her very much. He was a multi-millionaire and, uh, that was a good start, I suppose. Now, Henderson, the character in the book-is, was, one of those people who was born with everything going for them, at least it looked that way on paper. "A short time ago, a friend gave me a book called Henderson the Rain King and I started to read it but I never got finished I got halfway through and sort of left the whole plot up in the air, literally, and got inspired to write the next song. There’s enchantment and dis-enchantment, what we’re taught to believe things are and what they really are." In late 1967, she introduced the song like this: But in this song there are only two sides to things… there’s reality and I guess what you might call fantasy. In most cases there are both sides to things and in a lot of cases there are more than just both.
"This is a song that talks about sides to things. Interestingly, she gave the same introduction - word for word - on Octoat the Second Fret in Philadelphia: Joni introduces the song this way at the White Swan in Leicester, England on September 16, 1967. And so I got this idea 'from both sides now.' There are a lot of sides to everything, and so the song is called "From Both Sides, Now." I was reading a book, and I haven't finished it yet, called "Henderson the Rain King." And there's a line in it that I especially got hung up on that was about when he was flying to Africa and searching for something, he said that in an age when people could look up and down at clouds, they shouldn't be afraid to die. It - I should tell people a little bit about it. What have we got here? "Night in the City," "Circle Game" - oh, "From Both Sides, Now." I'm really glad somebody requested that, because that's a very new song, and I've been driving everybody crazy by playing it twice and three times a night. Gene: Want to do some of the requested songs? Joni in conversation with Gene Shay, "Folklore Program" March 12, 1967: Well something's lost, but something's gained They shake their heads, they say I've changed Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved.I've looked at clouds from both sides now Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Say Goodbye, So What, That Aint Right, What I Learned From Loving You, It Aint So Easy, Break It Even, Go Back, I Aint, Makin Up With You, Somebody Save Me, This Womans Heart, Under Your Skin, What I Tell Myself, Yes I Was, A Stolen Car, Handful Of Water, I Can Feel You Drifting, I Let Him Get Away With It, Id Rather Miss You, Just Because She Lives There, Leave It At That, Someone Elses Turn To Cry, Sometime, Easy Lovin You, I Am Love, Lonesome Road, Me And Mexico, Parading In The Rain, A Little Gasoline, Almost Gone, Any Woman, Better Than You, Better Things To Do, Catch 22, Cure For The Common Heartache, Easy From Now On, Emotional Girl, Empty, Everytime I Cry, Flowers After The Fact, Getting Even With The Blues, Getting There, Girls Lie Too, God And Me, Good Mother, Hold Your Horses, I Just Called To Say Goodbye, I Just Wanna Be Mad, I Wanna Do It All, Im Alright,Īll lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. Some kind of longing and wanting and wishing and missing Song Lyrics Connor Sarah - Turn Off the Lights Ĭonnor Sarah Singer Lyrics >
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