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Analyzing Joni Mitchell's Songs

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Joni Mitchell’s lyrics, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” definitely rings true for me. Once someone you have known and cared about for so long is no longer apart of your life, you have a lot of time to reminence on all the memories you shared with them. Personally, I have never had a romantic relationship where I have felt the way Joni Mitchell describes in her song, but I have had other experience where these lyrics hits me hard and really makes me contemplate my life. For example, during elementary school, my best friend who I had known my entire life moved away. Like most Friends we had our ups and downs, but when he moved away, all I could think of were the great experiences we had shared together. Knowing that

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