Saturday, July 12, 2025

Clouds: Ice Cream Castles… ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

 Continuing on from my previous post.  The word Cloud cropping up reminds me of the Joni Mitchell song from her album “Clouds”, note this excerpt: 

Clouds is the second album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on May 1, 1969


Do note it’s release, May 1…, aka “May won”… my name being “May” is also strategic design of the inner twin world.  Note this next excerpt:  

 "Both Sides, Now", had already been recorded by other singers by the time Mitchell started work on the album.[5] Mitchell wrote "Both Sides, Now" after reading Saul Bellow's 1959 novel Henderson the Rain King on a plane and drawing on a point in the novel where the protagonist is looking at clouds from a plane.

Definitely, “Rain  King” jives with my previous post.  Note from the song’s wiki page: 

One of the first recordings is by Judy Collins, whose version appeared on the US singles chart during the fall of 1968.

Note from Judy Collin’s wiki page: 

Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939)

Yet another May 1… MAY WON!!

The songs lyri 

Rows and floes of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons everywhereLooked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sunThey rain and they snow on everyoneSo many things I would have doneBut clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides nowFrom up and down and still somehowIt's cloud illusions I recallI really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheelsThe dizzy dancing way that you feelAs every fairy tale comes realI've looked at love that way
But now it's just another showAnd you leave 'em laughing when you goAnd if you care, don't let them knowDon't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides nowFrom give and take and still somehowIt's love's illusions that I recallI really don't know loveI really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proudTo say, "I love you, " right out loudDreams and schemes and circus crowdsI've looked at life that way
Oh, but now old friends, they're acting strangeAnd they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changedWell, something's lost, but something's gainedIn living every day
I've looked at life from both sides nowFrom win and lose and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all
It's life's illusions that I recallI really don't know life

I really don't know life at all 

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