Lyrics to
Don’t Interrupt The Sorrow

This version of Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow was released by Joni Mitchell in 1975.

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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 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

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You can understand the lyrics to Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow" means the words set to the music of Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joni Mitchell. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow and the lyrics to Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joni Mitchell who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Interrupt The Sorrow, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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