Joni Mitchell - California (lyrics)

Brilliant singer/songwriter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE&feature=related

Lyrics:

Sitting in a park in Paris, France

Reading the news and it sure looks bad

They won't give peace a chance

That was just a dream some of us had

Still a lot of lands to see

But I wouldn't want to stay here

It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here

Oh, but California

California I'm coming home

I'm going to see the folks I dig

I'll even kiss a sunset pig

California I'm coming home

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle

Who did the goat dance very well

He gave me back my smile

But he kept my camera to sell

Oh the rogue, the red red rogue

He cooked good omelettes and stews

And I might have stayed on with him there

But my heart cried out for you, California

Oh California I'm coming home

Oh make me feel good rock'n'roll band

I'm your biggest fan

California, I'm coming home

Chorus:

Oh it gets so lonely

When you're walking

And the streets are full of strangers

All the news of home you read

Just gives you the blues

Just gives you the blues

So I bought me a ticket

I caught a plane to spain

Went to a party down a red dirt road

There were lots of pretty people there

Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue

They said, how long can you hang around?

I said a week, maybe two,

Just until my skin turns brown

Then I'm going home to California

California I'm coming home

Oh will you take me as I am

Strung out on another man

California I'm coming home

Chorus:

Oh it gets so lonely

When you're walking

And the streets are full of strangers

All the news of home you read

More about the war

And the bloody changes

Oh will you take me as I am?

Will you take me as I am?

Will you?

Joni Mitchell - Morning Morgantown (lyrics)

Another marvelous song from the album "Ladies of the canyon" (1970):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKmZOwXfZCA

Lyrics:

When morning comes to Morgantown
The merchants roll their awnings down
The milktrucks make their morning rounds
In morning, Morgantown

We'll rise up early, with the sun
To ride the bus while everyone is yawning
And the day is young
In morning, Morgantown

Morning Morgantown
Buy your dreams a dollar down
Morning any town you name
Morning's just the same

We'll find a table in the shade
And sip our tea and lemonade
And watch the morning on parade
In morning, Morgantown

Ladies in their rainbow fashions
Colored stop and go lights flashing
We'll wink at total strangers passing in
Morning, Morgantown

Morning Morgantown
Buy your dreams a dollar down
Morning any town you name
Morning's just the same

I'd like to buy you everything
A wooden bird with painted wings
A window full of colored rings
In morning, Morgantown.

But the only thing I have to give
To make you smile, to win you with
Are all the mornings still to live
In morning, Morgantown.

Joni Mitchell - Circle game (lyrics)

Brilliant folk song from the brilliant Canadian singer from the brilliant album "Ladies of the canyon" (1970):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7uySNpUyw

Lyrics:

Yesterday, a child came out to wonder,

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder,

And tearful at the falling of a star

And the seasons, they go round and round,

And the painted ponies go up and down,

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came,

And go round and round and round in the circle game

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons,

Skated over ten clear, frozen streams

Words like, 'when you're older,' must appease him,

And promises of someday make his dreams

And the seasons, they go round and round,

And the painted ponies go up and down,

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came,

And go round and round and round in the circle game

Sixteen Springs and sixteen Summers gone now,

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

And they tell him, take your time, it won't be long now,

Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

And the seasons, they go round and round,

And the painted ponies go up and down,

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came,

And go round and round and round in the circle game

So, the years spin by and now the boy is twenty,

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty,

Before the last revolving year is through

And the seasons, they go round and round,

And the painted ponies go up and down,

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came,

And go round and round and round in the circle game

And go round and round and round in the circle game

Immigration Canada

Discrétion libérale

Le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a survécu à une autre série de votes de confiance sur sa réforme de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, lundi, grâce encore une fois à l'abstention d'une majorité de libéraux.
Le projet C-50 est une loi d'exécution des dispositions du dernier budget fédéral dans laquelle le gouvernement a inséré plusieurs modifications législatives, dont celle sur l'immigration. En vertu de ce vote favorable de 114-83, il atteint maintenant le stade de la troisième lecture.
Le projet C-50 ne deviendra loi que s'il survit à un autre vote aux Communes et à son étude par le Sénat. Le projet de loi donnerait des pouvoirs discrétionnaires supplémentaires à la ministre de l'Immigration qui pourrait accélérer, mais aussi refuser, toute demande d'immigration d'une personne répondant aux critères de sélection.
Plusieurs organismes et associations, dont l'Association du Barreau canadien et le conseil canadien pour les réfugiés, ont dénoncé ce projet de loi. Ils affirment qu'il pourrait donner lieu à des décisions discriminatoires, voire racistes.
Le gouvernement se défend en disant que certaines candidatures à l'immigration dans des domaines d'emploi recherchés, comme celles de médecins, pourraient plus facilement être acceptées.
Aucun des partis d'opposition à la Chambre des communes ne semble vouloir de ces changements. Pourtant, les libéraux se sont de nouveau abstenus en majorité de voter, afin d'éviter de voter contre la mise en oeuvre du budget et d'ainsi faire tomber le gouvernement conservateur minoritaire. Certains libéraux s'y sont opposés pour la forme, en essuyant au passage les quolibets de leurs adversaires.
Le chef de l'opposition officielle, Stéphane Dion, a déclaré que si l'opposition avait fait tomber le gouvernement, la démission du ministre Maxime Bernier, après qu'il eut oublié des documents secrets chez son ex-copine Julie Couillard, ne serait jamais survenue. (Radio-canada)