Joni Mitchell's "All I Want"

1. I am on a lonely road and
   I am traveling, traveling, traveling, traveling
   Looking for something, what can it be?
   Oh, I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some
2. Oh, I love you when I forget about me

She loves him only codependently She can only love him if she forgets how awful he makes her feel sometimes
I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along
I wanna belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive
Do you want, do you want, do you wanna dance with me baby?
Do you wanna take a chance on
Maybe finding some sweet romance with me, baby?

Well come on All I really, really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really, really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I wanna talk to you, I wanna shampoo you
Wanna renew you again and again

1. These lines are evocative of religious imagery–particularly baptism and other sin-cleansing rituals across all faiths
   
2. Applause, applause, life is our cause
   When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws
   Do you see, do you see, do you see how you hurt me, baby?
   So I hurt you too
   Then we both get so blue
3. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
   Looking for the key to set me free
   Oh the jealousy
   The greed is the unraveling it's the unraveling
   When she’s in a relationship or in love there’s always a jealousy that comes from the person she loves. This person is also very possessive of her thus implying the “greed”. These things make her fall out of love for this person or people.
5. And it undoes all the joy that could be
   I wanna have fun, I wanna shine like the sun
   She wants to give as much of her love as she can, but it just isn’t working because of how her and the other person interact.
6. Wanna be the one that you want to see
   I wanna knit you a sweater
   I wanna write you a love letter
   I wanna make you feel better
   I wanna make you feel free, hmm hm hmm hm
   Wanna make you feel all free
   I wanna make you feel free