Two Grey Rooms - Joni Mitchell
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2011
- Joni originally wrote the music in 1982 and titled it Speechless. She completed the lyrics in 1989 and released Two Grey Rooms on the 1991 album NIGHT RIDE HOME. The instrumental Speechless was released as Two Grey Rooms (Demo Version) on 2003's JONI MITCHELL: THE COMPLETE GEFFEN RECORDINGS.
"It took me seven years to find words for it. I kept thinking, 'This thing wants to be written in French,' and I had to find the right story for the mood of it. It's a very dramatic melody, full of longing. So, I finally found a story in some magazine about a German aristocrat, a homosexual and friend of [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder, who had a lover in his youth that he never got over. He lost track of him for many years. One day, he discovered that his old flame was working on the docks. He moved out of his fancy digs and into a couple of dingy rooms that overlooked the route where, with his hard hat and his lunch pail, his ex-lover walked to work. He lived to glimpse him twice a day, coming and going. He never approached him."
-----Complete Geffen Recordings - Album Notes by Joni Mitchell
Tomorrow is Sunday
Now there's only one day left to go
Till you walk by
Below my window
The weekends drive me mad
Holidays are oh too sad
'Cause you don't go
Below my window
No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
When you walk by
Below my window
You look so youthful
Time has been untruthful
Heaven knows I loved you
30 years ago
Hot days your shirt's undone
Rainy days you run
Oh and then you fade so fast
Below my window
No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
Only when you walk by
Below my window
When you walk by
Below my window
Below my window
Hey hey
Below my window
Below my window
Below my window 
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This is one of the most amazing songs ever written about love sent, and never returned. There is a poetry to this song that is just amazing, and the piano intro is just incredible. Joni Mitchell has written some incredible music, and this song proves that she still had the magic during the Geffen years. The problem with so much of the material was the production, not the actual song writing.
When I first heared this song i was SPEECHLESS. Then when i read the lyrics and its background story, it confirmed my presupposition that Joni Mitchell is a PHENOMENON BEYOND THE NATURAL!
This song brought me back to my one true love. It's as simple as that. Joni, you'll never know what you did for us when we needed to be brave in the face of love.
She really transports you to the two grey rooms,absolute genius of a singer songwriter
Jon Tillyard she does that so well! She paints beautiful pictures in so few words!! She's a word master!
I agree with Kurt Behrmann. A song every other composer wishes they had been given to write. Just heart-breaking and lucid.
So much loneliness in this song. She's like a spirit in the firmament, invisible to the world below her, invisible to someone she can never forget, even 30 years later.
It's like Joni channeling Fassbinder and Piaf simultaneously. Another amazing, genderless song that I've looped for hours and not gotten tired of.
Ineffable longing, intense feeling and winter melancholy fill my heart and moisten my eyes as I listen.
It is very hard for me to pick a favorite Joni Mitchell song, but this one is one of my favorites. This song is so hauntingly beautiful, sad but beautiful. Thanks for sharing this video Siquomb1
One of Joni's most beautiful songs overall, and probably her most beautiful piano part
this song just makes me melt, so, so beautiful..the melancholy in her voice, the gorgeous piano and the story behind the song is so hopelessly romantic, it get sme every time..
Such a sad song, but truly beautiful...
This poignant song about unrequited love reminds you of that one person in your life who never knew how you felt about them...the unattainable, impossible, secret love that only comes along once in your life whether you are twenty-six or sixty
and leaves a forever imprint on your heart.
What more can I add to the many wonderful comments about this hauntingly beautiful song by someone who is in a class of her own. Thanks Joni.
This song should be one of Joni's classics. I could hear a young artist like Fantasia or Candice Glover making a smash of this. An amazing song waiting to be discovered.
It's great to read that others share my love for this song. I cannot pick a favourite Joni track- but this one as others before me have written - stops me in my tracks and moves me to tears....thankyou for uploading.
absolutely hauntingly beautiful! whenever I listen to this it brings on a profound feeling of melancholy and I can't help but shed a tear.
What a story, cuts to the heart.
Gorgeous and heartbreaking. A high point of her later output. Joni turns 70 (!) today 11/7/13. Happy birthday to a great lady and great writer and singer.
i got a hold night ride home in cassette and cd in 1991. the album is one of my top 5 favorite joni albums. after her excursions in jazz, this album was a breath of sunshine as it showed her in her most comfortable and accessible musical self. for me at least anyway. nothing can be done is close to a pop hit as it can get. two gray rooms sends me on a contemplative mode. such drama and emotion.
This amazing song also benefits highly from the string arrangement by the great Jeremy Lubbock.
o4mscentrum: Hoping she can recover....and paint, and enjoy all the beauty she's brought others.... Love this, too!
this song says things I have always felt... cuts right to the heart.. such beauty in this sadness. love you Joni.
Always loved Joni and her work. Have followed her for forty five years. This song takes me back to a time of transition in my life.
Beautifull. sophisticated and talented, Fo ever Joni,
Always have LOVED the beginning piano part to this! It always has and always will enchant me! That chord progression is absolute bliss and magic! :)
Absolute Perfection
I am speechless...in many respects...
is a masterpiece ,it's very emotional. Heaven only knows how much I love this song...
Merci beaucoup Madame Joni...your music will be my friend for ever...:)
Love you Joni!
Sheer perfection
Beautiful... this is one of my favorite songs that Joni has ever recorded.
this song epitomizes "lonliness"
Love cuts deep.
Songwriting is such a commitment.... The gifts of tinkling brass, and cymbals. Is so enchanting in this piece. "I heard a great deal of work went into this piece full of allegory!
This song should be one of Joni's classics. I could hear a young artist like Candice Glover making a smash of this.
my favorite song Joni
Thanks Joni
The Same Situation", "a pretty girl in your bathroom, checking out her sex appeal", "Well I told you when you said you loved me, do you think this can be real"
The piano is somewhat reminiscent of this piece too.
WOW
Love you Joni....Heal..miss your inspirational interviews and songs!!
The story and the music...are heartbreaking ly beautiful. I pictured almost this exact story in the years ive listened to it. Before I read the description. It absolutely should be a french film.
Beautiful film for the lovely song
Hot tears! Love is so, there's no word for it! This is what art is for. Better than Shakespeare! There I said it! Like "Edith And The Kingpin" and "Furry Sings The Blues", and others too numerous to mention. You walked once before against odds, you will again! Love to you and healing prayers.
It is still the greatest mystery to me why the most satisfying and wonderful experience I have ever derived from show business is to cry my fool head off to a Joni Mitchell song!
A song of rare and peculiar elegance
Thanks for posting this unforgettable song.
Fabulous song, ooses class
The same thing happened to Suzanne Vega, she married Mitchell Froom and her music suffered because of his bizarre production on her albums during the mid-late 90's. But even so there are some gems on those albums. I guess the moral of the story is .. if you're a female singer/songwriter don't marry someone who wants to produce your albums!
......time has been untruthful...heaven knows....
Class.
@Prokifiev ... glad to hear it! This song is so passionate and intense... beautiful, typical Joni Mitchell! She is a genius...
Lovely...........thank you for the post.
This song is so lovely. Really brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
Why has the original demo of this from 1982, without the words
been taken down?
Its really annoying when that happens, and it was kind of unique
with its own charm, distinct from the finished song.
@NickJxuk Fassbinder had an unrequited love for another man and so, he suppossedly rented out a room with a view near what was his ''heart'', if only to see him pass by being unable to have his love returned anyother way.....
Beautiful! Thank you.
she's in heaven for almost seven years
yes I found out, thank you Sergio. Wow, I'm not sure if being that much in love is a good thing, but of course you have no say in the matter. I hate love, I love love (ugh).
I love the way her smoking voice has become scratchy.
this song brings my woman so close unless she's in heaven
@NickJxuk She said it was a *friend* of Fassbinder. LOL
It's a true story about a gay man in germany who was still in the closest. He loved another man and when the other moved away cuz he got a new job, he followed him. Rented "two grey rooms" just so he could watch the guy go to and from work. Joni had written the music about a decade earlier and waited to use it til she found a story that moved her enough to write the lyrics.
Can someone clue me in? This song is about a woman having a long term relationship with a married man....correct? Sorry I'm not the sharpest knife in the draw.
I love you, Joni.