You feel that you’re the prince or princess in a fairy-tale, because you can’t believe that you can feel so much.Īfter a while, you realize that not every fairy tales is a forever after and that some fairy-tales do come to an end. On the whole it feels like you’re going in a Ferris wheel. There are long nights that you spend with the moon, then there are days that all seem to belong to June, the month with the longest days. Time tends to go longer because you remember everything that happens. It accurately describes the innocence of young love. This verse is definitely my favourite verse in the song. This brings you to the conclusion that you may not have really seen clouds at all but just illusions of them.
Even as an adult you remember the way the clouds used to make you feel when you were a child. No one becomes an adult without being a child first, so by the time you see the clouds as an adult, you’ve already seen them as a child. I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now That is the adult-ish way of looking at clouds, you see them as something that would disrupt your plans not something that makes you dream. These limits can be a lack of time, a lack of money, a lack of talent or even a lack of motivation, but they all stop us from doing things that we otherwise wanted to do. As an adult you realize that you can’t do all the things that you dreamed of when you were a child, because you now understand that that there are limits to what you can do. Clouds ‘block the sun’ and they are a sign of impending rain or snow. This is a childish way of looking at clouds.Īn adult however looks at clouds in a different way. Clouds can look like ‘angel hair’, ‘ice cream castles’ or ‘feather canyons’. Cloudsįor a child, clouds are heavenly, dreamy things to look at. In my interpretation below, I assume that clouds, love and friends are first viewed as a child or teenager and then as an adult, the difference that these two perspectives reveals something about life as an adult. This information is used to reach a conclusion about life in general in the last (repeated) verse. The verses of the song, in groups describe how clouds, love and friends can seem different when viewed from two different places. These lyrics really captured the changes that I felt. When I listened to it for the first time I was just starting to realize that I was an adult and the child-ish world that I had once lived in was fading away. When Joni wrote the song she had just started to get famous after having been an unknown singer for quite sometime. Although I did like the bubbly ‘call me maybe’-ness that Carly added to it, I felt the lyrics were about something less bubbly but real.Īfter a short Google session, I discovered Joni Mitchell’s 1969 recording of it, which is my favourite now.
However I only heard it in 2012 thanks to the cover done by Carly Rae Jepsen. Joni Mitchell recorded her version only in 1969. If it’s not working for us, the best thing we can do is begin to do the very hard work of telling a new story, a better story, one that’s more useful.‘Both sides now’ was written by Joni Mitchell in 1967, but was recorded first by Judy Collins in 1967 itself. We sharpen them, rehearse them and turn them into an augmented version of the world as we see it, not the world as it is. We take these stories and we compound them. Instead, they’re rejecting their story of you, the best approximation they had combined with the complicated story they (all of us) tell ourselves about our needs, dreams and fears. When someone rejects you for a job, they’re not rejecting you. And what we know comes from the very human cultures we inhabit. Everything we encounter is filtered through what we know. We’d like to believe that our experiences are aligned with the world as it is.
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