Not to Blame

JONI MITCHELL

The story hit the news
From coast to coast
They said you beat the girl
You loved the most
Your charitable acts
Seemed out of place
With the beauty
With your fist marks on her face
Your buddies all stood by
They bet their
Fortunes and their fame
That she was out of line
And you were not to blame

Six hundred thousand doctors
Are putting on rubber gloves
And they're poking
At the miseries made of love
They say they're learning
How to spot
The battered wives
Among all the women
They see bleeding through their lives
I bleed
For your perversity
These red words that make a stain
On your white-washed claim that
She was out of line
And you were not to blame

I heard your baby say
When he was only three
"Daddy, let's get some girls
One for you and one for me"
His mother had the frailty
You despise
And the looks you love
To drive to suicide
Not one wet eye around her
Lonely little grave
Said "He was out of line, girl
You were not to blame"

Trivia about the song Not to Blame by Joni Mitchell

On which albums was the song “Not to Blame” released by Joni Mitchell?
Joni Mitchell released the song on the albums “Turbulent Indigo” in 1994, “Love Has Many Faces” in 2014, and “Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced” in 2014.
Who composed the song “Not to Blame” by Joni Mitchell?
The song “Not to Blame” by Joni Mitchell was composed by JONI MITCHELL.

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