From wikipedia: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm is the 13th studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1988. It was her third for Geffen Records. In early 1986, Mitchell and Larry Klein visited Peter Gabriel’s Ashcombe House recording studio in Bath, England. Since Gabriel had mostly finished his album So by that time, he offered Mitchell and Klein the use of his studio if they wanted to record. They did, and the result was the track “My Secret Place” which was a duet between Mitchell and Gabriel. The first official single from the album was “My Secret Place”. Released in March 1988, it “bubbled under” for a few weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The video, shot on grainy, atmospheric black & white film featuring Mitchell and Peter Gabriel, got some airplay on VH-1, where it premiered in May 1988. Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 1989 Grammy Awards…
Another selection from this album is at another post I did here.
Today’s cut is “Lakota.”
Lakota!
Looking at money man,
Diggin’ the deadly quotas,
Out of balance,
Out of hand
We want the land!
Lay down the reeking ore!
Don’t you hear the shrieking in the trees?
Everywhere you touch the earth, she’s sore
Every time you skin her all things weep
Your money mocks us
Restitution, what good can it do?
Kenneled in metered boxes
Red dogs in debt to you
Lakota!
Fighting among ourselves
All we can say with one whole heart
Is we won’t sell,
No we’ll never sell
We want the land!
The lonely coyote calls
In the woodlands, footprints of the deer
In the barrooms, poor drunk bastard falls
In the courtrooms, deaf ears, sixty years
You think we’re sleeping–but
Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars
We have seen the trampled rainbows
In the smoke of cars
Brave
Sun pity me
I am Lakota
Broken
Moon pity me
I am Lakota
Grave
Shadows stretching
Lakota
Oh pity me
I am Lakota
Weak
Grass pity me
I am Lakota
Faithful
Rocks pity me
I am Lakota
Meek
Standing water
Lakota
Oh pity me
Lakota!
Standing on sacred land
We never sold these Black Hills
To the missile-heads,
To the power plants
We want the land!
The bullet and the fence, broke Lakota
The black coats and the booze, broke Lakota
Courts that circumvent, choke Lakota
Nothing left to lose
Tell me grandfather
You spoke the fur and feather tongues,
Do you hear the whimpering waters
When the tractors come?
Mother earth
Mother
Moon pity me
Father sky
Father
Shadows
Stretching on the forest floor
Mother earth
Oh pity me
Father sky
Father
Grass pity me
Mother earth
Mother
Rocks pity me
Father sky
Father
Water
Standing in a waken manner
Mother earth
Oh pity me
Tao Talk 
Great choice and get coloring job! I haven’t listened to a Joni in a few days got to get back with it.
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Thank you on the coloring, the new book has several interesting ones in it. “Lakota” was a good choice to go with it. That song makes my head “tingle” if you know what I mean. Like all areas are firing at the same time.
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That’s always a good thing!
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I need some new coloring ~ love yours!
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Thanks Paula. I got 5 new books for under $10 at “Ollies” which is like “Big Lots” (not sure if you have those out there or not?)
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We used to have a Big Lots nearby. Thanks!
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Awesome choices!
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:) The new book has some cool ones in it and Joni’s song is perfect for it. Glad you like them.
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Very nice coloring and music…
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Thank you, Max.
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Joni Mitchell – nuff said, love the colours
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:) thank you
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My pleasure
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