This Place Lyrics - Shine - Joni Mitchell

Sparkle on the ocean 

Eagle at the top of a tree 

Those crazy crows always making a commotion 

This land is home to me. 

I was talking to my neighbor 

He said, "When I get to heaven, if it is not like this, 

I'll just hop a cloud and I'm coming right back down here 

Back to this heavenly bliss." 

You see those lovely hills 

They won't be there for long 

They're gonna tear 'em down 

And sell them to California 

Here come the toxic spills 

Miners poking all around 

When this place looks like a moonscape 

Don't say I didn't warn ya... 

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Money, money, money... 

Money makes the trees come down 

It makes mountains into molehills 

Big money kicks the wide wide world around. 

Black bear in the orchard 

At night he's in my garbage cans 

He's getting so bold but no one wants to shoot him 

He's got a right to roam this land. 

I feel like Geronimo 

I used to be as trusting as Cochise 

But the white eyes lies 

He's out of whack with nature 

And look how far his weapons reach! 

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Spirit of the water 

Give us all the courage and the grace 

To make genius of this tragedy unfolding 

The genius to save this place.