All I Want(ed)

Taking another dip down the Joni Mitchell rabbit hole, I found a live, early version of "All I Want," and the incomplete lyric has some fascinating differences from the album version: I was mildly shocked by "looking for the truth in men and in me," amused by the awkward placeholder "phony camaraderie," and genuinely touched by the past tense of the chorus ("All I really, really wanted love to do was..."). Since this doesn't seem to live anywhere else on the interwebs, I offer it to you here:

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the truth in men and in me
All my jealousy, my greed, they all unravel me
It undoes all the joy that could be
Ah, you’re not real, no, no
Do you think you’re fooling me
With these false pretensions of phony camaraderie?

All I really, really wanted love to do
Was to bring out the best out in me and in you too
All I really, really wanted love to do
Was to bring out the best out in me and in you too

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the truth in men and in me
All my jealousy, my greed is my unravelling
It undoes all the joy that could be
Ah, but you’re not real, no, no
Do you think you’re fooling me
With your phony camaraderie?

All I really, really wanted love to do
Was to bring out the best out in me and in you too
All I really, really wanted love to do
Was to bring out the best out in me and in you too

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