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I'm not sure I understand Joni Mitchell's law (beside a naive "when up, things can only go down")

• toufka 5y ago
  “Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot”
• dalmo3 5y ago
  I read "come to harm" as "get harmed" instead of "do harm". In simpler terms: what's good for some is bad for others.
  • tuatoru 5y ago
    Yes, the idiom "come to X" does mean "be acted on by X". Common usages "come to harm", "come to Jesus", "come to his/her/your/my senses" ( = rational thought).
    • dalmo3 5y ago
      It's especially confusing in this case, where the previous sentence refers to a place. "I come to the beach to relax, but others come to party."