anonymous September 30th, 2005 08:12PM  
The song is all about how you look at things in life. You can look at them positively or negatively.

DumdeDum May 6th, 2006 06:10PM  
I think this song is amazing. I think it's about a womans feelings, and good and point points about the main things in life, or using things eg clouds to symbolize feelings eg"so many things I would have done but clouds got in my way" My favourite line is "the dizzy dancing way you feel as every fairytale comes real" I think most females could relate to it and know the feeling. Generally a great emotional song, mainly about love and emotions

anonymous November 16th, 2006 02:53PM  
This song is about losing your innocence. It is about going through life and experiencing things and coming out the other side with a different interpretation than when you went in, but still taking something away from it.
It changes you....Life changes you...Joni Mitchell is one of our most prolific writers....She is amazing!!

anonymous October 29th, 2009 07:47AM  
I believe that the words reflect the state of mind before and after depression. The clouds are an analogy for the cloudiness that comes with depression. They have blocked out the joy of life (the sun) as they just rain and snow on everyone. The relationships that you have are changed as they develop. The feelings associated with being in love changes to something that is perhaps more real, but less intense, than at the start. Friends also drift away like the clouds especially those that cannot understand the changes that have happened as a result of depression – fair weather friends. Finally recovering from depression you begin to look back at everything and evaluate things much differently in hindsight, some good some bad, but now there is only forward.