Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now 2000 lives

A 24 year old songwriter wrote a song for her 57 year old self to sing. Remarkable.

I'm weeping .... I'm 80, had a wonderful exciting heartbreaking life, and this song, this voice, this arrangement .... I am weeping ....

And just tonight a 24 year old songwriter wrote a song for her 80 year old self to sing at the Grammys. Absolutely Wonderful!

Nowadays every pop star is so extroverted while Joni belongs to a completely different category. She is an introvert and deep and mysterious and sophisticated and humble and so much more. Very inspiring artist.

Weeping my heart out . At age 72, half my friends dead, life having batted me around, this moves me.

My music taste changed after I went blind six years ago; this is now one of my favorite songs and this is definitely the best rendition! You don’t miss something as simple as a cloud until you can’t see them anymore

At 24 when she wrote and sang this first - I was a young closeted gay man …and now at 64 yrs old I’m still deeply listening as a self- freed flawed but grateful man , she stuns and humbles me ….all along as my life , probably many of our lives tell out these profound human truths. We really don’t know life or love but we have the deepest desire to know them. Thanks once again Joni for bringing us back to the gates of the Garden with your poetry , humanity and clarity. With love , Tom Beeton , Los Angeles

Very few artists can deliver this level of emotion and honesty. This version hits me deep and makes it hard not to weep. Just incomparable.

If Van Gogh paintings were to turn into songs, this would be one of them.

This fundamentally rearranges the atoms in my body. Things will never be the same again

Joni Mitchell's voice is an absolute gift to humanity

A timeless singer who highlighted the 66th Grammys. I’m only 15 and have been a fan of her for many years. Kids my age don’t know what they are missing out on. 😢

This is one of the most wonderful moments in music I have ever heard and seen. I keep coming back to this video from time to time...

This is absolutely sacred... ❤

The finale song to Ricky Gervais After Life...feeds your soul...

I first heard this at the Isle of Wight pop festival back in 1970 at the age of 17 and I did not think much of it. Now an old man, my eyes are full of tears and just at that crowd was so moved, the words now have so much relevance to me. Even though I look back on my youth, the friends, the changes and vitality of the sixties and the ones I loved with so much affection and fond memories, I also look back in despair and great regret at the mistakes I made due to my youth and my impulsive nature leading to break ups with them. I try not to think of them as it hurts so much but when I do, I cringe and wish I go could back in time and say to a young me "Don't do that, back down, say your sorry to her, winning is not important and go back to her". My tears are mainly summarise by Joni's words "I really don't know life at all" and unfortunately it takes a life time to finally understand how true that is but then it is too late. If you are young, do one thing, listen to old people!!

This song perfectly captures the duality of life, moments of pure joy and moments of regret, excitements and disappointments, being grateful of things we gained along the way, and being remorseful of things we have lost. And ironically enough sometimes the thing that made us absolutely miserable in the end is also the thing that brought us the most joy, it wouldn’t have tasted so sweet if there wasn’t a single ounce of bitterness. Life is truly a blessing

The orchestration of this arrangement is breathtaking.

This is one of the finest performances ever in this world. One of the greatest songs ever written.

The orchestral arrangement paired with Joni's voice was sublime.