Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1969
Pass it on
Reprise · Warner Music Group
Both Sides, Now
69Worth an evening.
Reprise, under Warner. She has been fooled, and she will say so without bitterness as her only note.
The review
Reprise released the first recording. Warner holds Reprise. Mitchell looks at the things people use as proof of wonder and says she has seen the back of them too. The last verse does not cancel the first. It makes the wonder adult.
Play the late version as well, when the voice has caught up to the lyric. Both belong.
Journal
Keep Both Sides, Now in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Love Supreme
81 instead of 69
A Love Supreme is still a music song, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is piety: Gratitude, named, and then played until the band is spent.
The eight
- 9Industry
The lyric does in three verses what most books will not.
- 6Household
Love, seen as a illusion and as a fact. She keeps both.
- 5Piety
Something lost and gained. She does not name it cheaply.
- 7Courage
She changes her mind in public.
- 4Republic
A private education.
- 7Temperance
No rant. A reappraisal.
- 9Truth
She admits she did not know, and that she still does not, fully.
- 8Stewardship
A song to grow old enough for.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Both Sides, Now · 69IMDb
