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Music video (7′44″) Joni Mitchell - Shine (2007)

Images

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts videoclip by Jake Scott (1992)

Michael Jackson - Cry videoclip by Nicholas Brandt (2001)

The Light of Life animation by Daihei Shibata (2010)

Northern Lights drone shots by OZZO Photography (2016)

Cadillac commercial fireworks by Daniel Larrosa (2017)

Video by Frank Zweers

Shine

Oh let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on Wall Street and Vegas Place your bets Shine on the fishermen With nothing in their nets Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas Shine on our Frankenstein technologies Shine on science With its tunnel vision Shine on fertile farmland Buried under subdivisions Let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on the dazzling darkness That restores us in deep sleep Shine on what we throw away And what we keep Shine on Reverend Pearson Who threw away The vain old God kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven And fresh plowed sod Shine on good earth, good air, good water And a safe place For kids to play Shine on bombs exploding Half a mile away Let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on world-wide traffic jams Honking day and night Shine on another asshole Passing on the right! Shine on the red light runners Busy talking on their cell phones

Shine on the Catholic Church And the prisons that it owns Shine on all the Churches They all love less and less

Shine on a hopeful girl In a dreamy dress Let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on good humor Shine on good will Shine on lousy leadership Licensed to kill Shine on dying soldiers In patriotic pain Shine on mass destruction In some God’s name! Shine on the pioneers Those seekers of mental health Craving simplicity They traveled inward Past themselves… May all their little lights shine

© 2007 Crazy Crow Music

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Music video (4′11″) Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries From the album Turbulent Indigo, 1994

Images: The Magdalene Sisters Peter Mulan, 2002

Video by Frank Zweers

The Magdalene Laundries

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene laundries Most girls come here pregnant Some by their own fathers Bridget got that belly By her parish priest We're trying to get things white as snow All of us woe-begotten-daughters In the steaming stains Of the Magdalene laundries Prostitutes and destitutes And temptresses like me Fallen women Sentenced into dreamless drudgery Why do they call this heartless place Our Lady of Charity? Oh charity! These bloodless brides of Jesus If they had just once glimpsed their groom Then they'd know and they'd drop the stones Concealed behind their rosaries They wilt the grass they walk upon They leech the light out of a room They'd like to drive us down the drain At the Magdalene laundries Peg O'Connell died today She was a cheeky girl A flirt They just stuffed her in a hole! Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring! One day I'm going to die here too And they'll plant me in the dirt Like some lame bulb That never blooms come any spring Not any spring No, not any spring Not any spring

© 1994; Crazy Crow Music

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Music video (7′11″) Joni Mitchell - The Sire of Sorrow (Job’s sad song) From the album Turbulent Indigo, 1994

Images: The Book of Job The Bible Project, 2016

Video by Frank Zweers

The Sire of Sorrow (Job’s sad song)

Let me speak let me spit out my bitterness Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me? Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?

Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company But now the janitors of Shadowland flick their brooms at me Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? that you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints? And you let the wicked prosper You let their children frisk like deer And my loves are dead or dying, or they don't come near (Antagonists: We don't despise your chastening God is correcting you) Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress Oh, these pompous physicians What carelessness! (Antagonists: Oh all this ranting all this wind Filling our ears with trash) Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury! they come blaming and shaming (Antagonists: Evil doer) And shattering me (Antagonists: This vain man wishes to seem wise A man born of asses) Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: We don't despise your chastening) Already on a bed of sighs and screams And still you torture me with visions You give me terrifying dreams! Better I was carried from the womb straight to the grave I see the diggers waiting, they're leaning on their spades (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow Sure as the sparks ascend) Where is hope while you're wondering what went wrong? Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn? (Antagonists: Evil is sweet in your mouth Hiding under your tongue) Show your face! (Antagonists: What a long fall from grace) Help me understand! What is the reason for your heavy hand? (Antagonists: You're stumbling in shadows You have no name now) Was it the sins of my youth? What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: Oh your guilt must weigh so greatly) Everything I dread and everything I fear come true (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) Oh you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true

© 1994; Crazy Crow Music

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Music video (3′33″) Joni Mitchell - Answer me, my Love (2000) Orchestra arranged & conducted by Vince Mendoza

Song by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch English lyric by Carl Sigman Original title: Answer me, Lord above (1953)

Images: Aurora Borealis Youtube

Video by Frank Zweers

Answer me, my Love

Answer me Oh my love Just what sin have I been guilty of Tell me how I came to lose your love Please answer me sweetheart

You were mine yesterday I believed that love was here to stay Won't you tell me how I've gone astray Please answer me my love

If you're happier without me I'll try not to care But if you still think about me Please listen to my prayer

You must know that I've been true Won't you say that we can start anew In my sorrow now I turn to you Please answer me my love

If you're happier without me I'll try not to care But if you still think about me Please listen to my prayer

You must know that I've been true Won't you say that we can start anew In my sorrow now I turn to you Please answer me my love Answer me my love

© 1953; Bourne Music

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Videoclip (5′44″) Joni Mitchell - Love (2002)

Orchestra arranged & conducted by Vince Mendoza Text based upon: I Corinthians 13, The Bible

Images:

Dimi Ghost & Everlookup - Aurora Borealis in Tromsø (2011)

Cristobal Vila - The Fibonacci sequence in all its glory (2010)

Robert Revol - Planet Earth Amazing nature scenery (2011)

Lampa - A message of hope (2012)

Video by Frank Zweers

Love

Although I speak in tongues Of men and angels I'm just sounding brass And tinkling cymbals without love Love suffers long Love is kind! Enduring all things Love has no evil in mind If I had the gift of prophecy And all the knowledge And the faith to move the mountains Even if I understood all of the mysteries If I didn't have love I'd be nothing Love never looks for love Love's not puffed up Or envious Or touchy Because it rejoices in the truth Not in iniquity Love sees like a child sees As a child I spoke as a child I thought and I understood as a child But when I became a woman I put away childish things And began to see through a glass darkly Where as a child I saw it face to face Now I only know it in part Fractions in me Of faith and hope and love And of these great three Love's the greatest beauty Love Love Love

© 1982; Crazy Crow Music