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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
You’ve got me on a string
I don’t mean a thing to you I’m holding on to no one I’m a long time lover And my long time love is gone If my man beats me, robs me blind Long as he don’t leave me, I don’t mind I would beg and I would crawl Though it does no good at all My man’s been gone so long And I keep holding on And if he needed me, I’d be there No matter how he mistreated me I don’t care I would get down on my knees Though it does no good to please My man’s been gone for so long And I keep holding on Broken windows, boarded doorways Choose your prison When I’m with him I’m a fool for loving you And well I know How the head says ? no And the heart says Go down on your knees, woman And keep on holding on |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
I miss you, jealous lover
Won’t you come on over To my side of town I need you Like the city needs the sound of human voices I want you Like the winter wants the springtime Lover, without you The world stands alone Without you The past lingers on Tomorrow becoming today Without you, it’s all the same Without you Outside my window Gentle lover The birds are singing songs of love I need you They are calling for the sound of laughing children I want you They are singing for your pleasure Lover, without you The world stands alone Without you The past lingers on Tomorrow becoming today Without you, it’s all the same I see you A world without end Then I need you All over again Without you the sun doesn’t shine Tomorrow is blind Without you |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Someone is waiting
over by the window just beyond the stairwell someone's crying Drowning in the words of the prophets that are written for the dead and the dying someone's lying No one's buying Someone is dying Panic in the streets can't get no release someone escaping waiting on a line for the holy revolution parading illusion someone's using Most amusing Will you dance? will you dance? smell of caviar and roses Teach your children all the poses How familliar are we all... will you dance? will you dance? light fantastic in the morning How romantic to be whoring boring though it may be who'll survive if you and I should fall? someone is bleeding crimson in the night strangers, in the light a sudden meeting Greeting one by one every life rund flashing before those dashing eyes Will you dance? will you dance? take a chance on romance and a big surprise? |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Someone is waiting
over by the window just beyond the stairwell someone's crying Drowning in the words of the prophets that are written for the dead and the dying someone's lying No one's buying Someone is dying Panic in the streets can't get no release someone escaping waiting on a line for the holy revolution parading illusion someone's using Most amusing Will you dance? will you dance? smell of caviar and roses Teach your children all the poses How familliar are we all... will you dance? will you dance? light fantastic in the morning How romantic to be whoring boring though it may be who'll survive if you and I should fall? someone is bleeding crimson in the night strangers, in the light a sudden meeting Greeting one by one every life rund flashing before those dashing eyes Will you dance? will you dance? take a chance on romance and a big surprise? |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Someone is waiting
over by the window just beyond the stairwell someone's crying Drowning in the words of the prophets that are written for the dead and the dying someone's lying No one's buying Someone is dying Panic in the streets can't get no release someone escaping waiting on a line for the holy revolution parading illusion someone's using Most amusing Will you dance? will you dance? smell of caviar and roses Teach your children all the poses How familliar are we all... will you dance? will you dance? light fantastic in the morning How romantic to be whoring boring though it may be who'll survive if you and I should fall? someone is bleeding crimson in the night strangers, in the light a sudden meeting Greeting one by one every life rund flashing before those dashing eyes Will you dance? will you dance? take a chance on romance and a big surprise? |
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from Janis Ian - Uncle Wonderful (2005)
Hope dies, withered on the vine,
Old before its time. Water into brine. And dreams die, waiting to be fed, Long before they’re wed to life. So here we are, two ships without a sail, No rudder for the gale winds or the tailspins. I miss you even when you’re near You’re leaving, pouring out like tears. If dreams die before we give them life Why should love survive? Hope tries. First you’re holding hands Then dreams become demands And passion turns to plans And love tries, blinded by its youth, To turn its anger into truth. So here we are, two ships upon the land, No anchor for the sand dunes when the earth moves. I miss you even when you’re near You’re leaving, pouring out like tears. If hope tries to fight the test of time Why can't you and I? Feed me. Pluck me from the vine Stop the hands of time Turn water into wine And see me. Treasure every seed Pleasure in the need -- be mine. Here you are, my comet in the sky, Afraid to spin too high, and burning as you fly. I miss you even when you’re near You’re leaving, pouring out like tears. If dreams die, then why should you and I? We were born to fly. |
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from Janis Ian - Between The Lines (1975)
Would you like to learn to sing Would you like to sing my song Would you like to learn to love me best of all Anyone can learn the words and the melody's so plain This is my song to bring you back again I will teach you how to sing and dance with a song and dance routine and when the party's over you can fall in love with me Would you like to learn to tango Do you dance the light fandango I will teach you how before we're dong any one can make it two any two can turn to one and the melody's lost before the song's begun We sonnd so good together and so poorly sung alone your harmony's an open breeze into my sheltered home I will teach you how to sing and dance with a song and dance routine and when the party's over you can fall in love with me |
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from Janis Ian - Billie'S Bones (2004)
They said lay down in the water
Even though you don't believe All your sins will be forgiven And your soul will be redeemed So I walked into the water And I fell down to my knees And I took out some insurance And I bought a little peace But when I lay down, I lied When I lay down, I lied He said - darling do you love me I and I said - sure I do And I led him to believe me As I proved that it was true Well I let my body love him God knows I really tried And the comfort of it touched him And his heart was satisfied But when I lay down, I lied When I lay down, I lied …to make them happy And I lied so they would care I lied 'cause I was lonely And I lied 'cause I was scared I lied so some would leave me And I lied so some would stay I lied until I lied my life away I dreamed my life was over And they laid me in my grave I was frightened of forever And the price I'd have to pay And I thought that god would hate me 'cause I'd lived my life in sin But (I felt the truth embrace me) (he knelt down to embrace me) (As heaven let me in) (And together, we walked in) And when I lay down I lay down and cried |
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from Janis Ian - Between The Lines (1975)
I remember photographs Watercolors of the past He turned and said "You ask much of me" Then when we made our peace We lay between the sheets He turned and said "I set you free" Go on, be a hero Be a photograph Make your own myths Christ, I hope they last Longer than mine Wider than the sky We measure time by Go on, be a hero I set you free Your stagehand lovers Have conquered me They'll send yu carnations While smiling faces look on and applaud Go on, go on, go away from me I said, "Do you wish me dead?" Lip service to books you've read Articles on how to bed a bird in flight You called it love I called it greed You say, "You take what you want" I said, "You get what you need" Go on, be a hero, be a man Make your own destiny if you can Go find a fence Locate a shell And hide yourself, go on, go to hell Go away from me I need no charity He said, Come unto me I am beauty I am the light Come unto me Hold the darkness and stay the night I am wonder I am the heart's delight Tomorrow we'll fight Come on, come on Come on, come near to me Come be my fantasy We'll talk it over again some time I'll send some flowers to change my mind But for tonight, turn out the light Hold me, come on, come on And set me free Lend me your charity |
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from Janis Ian - Aftertones (1975)
I gave a party
I said you could come You showed up at your door With all your leathers on I said This must be wrong It can't be right How can you make love to me Dressed up for a fight? Pick me up off the floor No more 'Cause you surely can't be mine Religion came almost overnight You were the high priest I was the sacrifice I said this must be wrong This can't be right Take off your stupid robe And put down your knife These ropes are getting tight All right You surely can't be mine I come home half dead Late on a Saturday night You stand on the bed and you tell me you're learning to fly I said Take off your boots Take off your cape Throw away your long johns I ain't no Lois Lane Before I get my kryptonite All right 'Cause you surely can't be mine I was ready for love Big brass bed and all I was ready for love You said Let's talk about the war I said What war? What war? Take off your clothes And don't you worry me no more I ain't no fly by night All right You surely can't be mine |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
I love the light, I love the changing season
I love without much thought to reason I'd give it all if I could make you see I love the man that you were meant to be I love the man you are in me I love the man who waits beside you I love the man who hides behind you I love the shadow though it disappears I love the afterglow, reflected through the tears I love the shadows in my tears I love the dreams you can't remember Lost in the early waking hours I love the season of forever I'll live without the light of laughter I'll live without an everafter I'd give it all, if I could make you see I need the man that you were meant to be I love the man you are in me |
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from Janis Ian - Between The Lines (1975)
I haven't been loved by a man in quite a while You know it ain't easy making me smile Friends have their lovers, men on a string There must be something terribly wrong with me Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything How do you do would you like to be friends? No, I just want a bed for the night Someone to tell me they care You can fake it, that's all right In the morning I won't be here It's a sacrificial alter And I'm laying down my head And I'm telling you up front I haven't much to give Is that how it's done? Or shall I sing and dance? Give me a chance How do you do, do you want to be friends? Yes, that might be very nice Maybe we'll fall in love Ev'ry body has its price Mine is yours for free If you'll be in love with me I haven't been loved by a man in quite a while You know it ain't easy making me smile All my friends have their lovers They've got men on a string There must be something terribly wrong with me How do you do, would you like to be friends? |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
Mom and I had our ups and downs, mostly during my
adolescence and her first years as a divorced woman. There were months we didn't speak, years we didn't communicate. Later I realized she'd done the best she could, and began to understand what a hard road she'd chosen, living single as a middle-aged woman in the '60's. I grew not just to respect but to admire her. I finished this song while I was living in her apartment, shamefacedly taking grocery money from her because I was hoping to write my next album and get a recording deal. I walked into her bedroom while she was standing on the bed hanging a picture, said "Mom, I wrote a new song", and began singing it. She stood facing the wall until I'd finished, then turned to me with tears rolling down her face. It was the first time I realized how much a song could heal; we began to be close, close friends after that. Thankyous Papa gave me music. Mama gave me soul. Brother gave me reaching out to hold. Teacher gave me license Learning set me free Schooling gave me nothing ?music showed me how to be Papa gave me want-to-be Brother gave me empathy Mama gave me women, but that isn't all I need I have lived in houses. I have lived in homes. Eaten off of tables made of wood or stone Through the trials and tribulations I've never known how to say I love you and let my feelings show So thank you for the music Thank you for the song Bless you for the freedom in knowing right from wrong Thank you for the laughter the heartaches and the tears It's a blessing to grow It's a goodness to be here You give me want-to-be You give me sympathy You give me woman Thank you for loving me and letting it show It's a pleasure to be here so bless us, every one |
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from Janis Ian - Between The Lines (1975)
I don't want to ride the milktrain anymore I'll go to bed at nine and waken with the dawn And lunch at half past noon dinner prompt at five The comfort of a few old friends long past their prime Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone We'll drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn I'll not write another line for my true love is gone When the guests have done I'll tidy up the rooms I'll turn the covers down and gazing at the moon I'll pray to go quite mad and live in long ago When you and I were one So very long ago Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone Let's drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn I'll not write another line for my true love is gone When I have no dreams to give you anymore I'll light a blazing fire and wait within the door and throw my life away I wonder why? they all will say And now I lay me down to sleep forever and a day Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days are dead Let's drink a toast to those who best survive the life they've led It's a long, long time 'til morning so build the fires high And now I lay me down to sleep forever by your side |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Blue sky morning, red sky night
Sailor take warning when the eagle takes flight If I had wings I would delight and fly away Black cloud riding on the cotton fields back home Every man's an island in the desert of his soul take to the sky - there's nowhere else to go - and fly away I can rememer all the days of my life cold, dark september when the eagle took flight I had to stay, I had to stay I cried a river to the empty sky someone deliver me by and by I'll fly away, Il'll fly away It don't take nothing to be lonely It comes too easy to be holy It does nothing for the soul but tear holes in tomorrow Somebody somebody said I don't want to be nobody saidI don't want to see nobody said I don't want to need nobody said nothing at all Sitting and waiting for the axe to fall Sun come raining, lighten up the day I ain't complaining I got nothing to say I'll fly away, I'll fly away If I had the courage to be flying blind I'd fly too high to buy my way home somebody wants somebody to be lonely and nobody settling only for love- how much time can you borrow? Making it easy to lie Faking it on the sly Shaking and stammering taking it up to the sky Hammering nails in tomorrow Sun come raining lighten up the sky I ain't complaining I get no reply I'll fly away, I'll fly away When I get the courage to be flying blind I'll fly to high to buy my way home |
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Blue sky morning, red sky night
Sailor take warning when the eagle takes flight If I had wings I would delight and fly away Black cloud riding on the cotton fields back home Every man's an island in the desert of his soul take to the sky - there's nowhere else to go - and fly away I can rememer all the days of my life cold, dark september when the eagle took flight I had to stay, I had to stay I cried a river to the empty sky someone deliver me by and by I'll fly away, Il'll fly away It don't take nothing to be lonely It comes too easy to be holy It does nothing for the soul but tear holes in tomorrow Somebody somebody said I don't want to be nobody saidI don't want to see nobody said I don't want to need nobody said nothing at all Sitting and waiting for the axe to fall Sun come raining, lighten up the day I ain't complaining I got nothing to say I'll fly away, I'll fly away If I had the courage to be flying blind I'd fly too high to buy my way home somebody wants somebody to be lonely and nobody settling only for love- how much time can you borrow? Making it easy to lie Faking it on the sly Shaking and stammering taking it up to the sky Hammering nails in tomorrow Sun come raining lighten up the sky I ain't complaining I get no reply I'll fly away, I'll fly away When I get the courage to be flying blind I'll fly to high to buy my way home |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
I want to lie by your side
and watch the tide run over Lay your head upon my shoulder I want to lie by the bed and send my head out reeling Honey, lay this feeling down I'm ready to ride *Sweet sympathy, won't you pity me tonight? Yes I got to hurry to the surry get the saddle on tight Honey won't you let me? Honey just allow me Honey, won't you pleasure me right? Sweet sympathy, won't you carry me tonight? I want to lay myself down and take a sweet, soft shelter Still my waters here forever I want to lay my body down I want to lay my body down Honey, lay me lightly down I'm ready to ride Can we get together Can we get together Can we get together right now? Well, you give me the music and you know how to use it Drive me out of my shoes I got the blues tonight I've got sweet titillation Honey, won't you pleasure me right? Sweet sympathy won't you carry me tonight? *Repeat |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
She is too old to care
Why not just leave her there? We'll se her once a week If we have the time, we'll speak This is the sunset of your life The old ones like to claw and clutch Be careful not to offer much They understand the fist and crutch Their skin like leather to the touch This is the sunset of your life The empty mile the frozen face the drooling child humiliates If I were you I think I'd die here in the sunset of my life The long and lonely night has just begun This withered witch cannot be you There will be no sun |
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She is too old to care
Why not just leave her there? We'll se her once a week If we have the time, we'll speak This is the sunset of your life The old ones like to claw and clutch Be careful not to offer much They understand the fist and crutch Their skin like leather to the touch This is the sunset of your life The empty mile the frozen face the drooling child humiliates If I were you I think I'd die here in the sunset of my life The long and lonely night has just begun This withered witch cannot be you There will be no sun |
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from Janis Ian - Society`S Child (1999)
It is the winter time of year
A time for all my troubled thought dreams to come clear And all the seasons I held dear Seem to have gone and left me 'lone with winter only here Lonely, forever dreaming My life is teeming with yearning, I'd like to be learning And it's summer out on the streets Sunflakes fall, snowrays call Hey Mama, It's me saying "awww" A policeman walks a most solitary beat I feel at odds with the summer time Ice is in my heart and winter's in my mind I watch the snow upon my blinds As people walk in shorts and sandals everywhere outside Lonely, forever hiding Caught in the icy hide of winter, outside it's warm and sunlight glimmers And it's summer out on the streets Sunflakes fall, the snowrays call Hey Mama, It's me saying "awww" A policeman walks a most solitary beat Oh when days are marked by winter's time Spring and summer counts come racing to my mind Within my heart the seasons never coincide At times I hate and curse the world for making winter mine. Lonely, forever dreaming My life is teeming with yearning, I'd like to be learning And it's summer out on the streets Sunflakes fall, the snowrays call Hey Mama, It's me saying "awww" A policeman walks a most solitary beat |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
I was never one for singing
what I really feel Except tonight, I'm bringing everything I know that's real Stars, they come and go They come fast or slow They go like the last light of the sun, all in a blaze and all you see is glory But it gets lonely there when there's no one here to share We can shake it away if you'll hear a story People lust for fame Like athletes in a game we break our collarbones and come up swinging Some of us are downed Some of us are crowned and some are lost and never found But most have seen it all They live their lives in sad cafes and music halls They always have a story Some make it when they're young before the world has done its dirty job and later on, someone will say "You've had your day You must make way" But they'll never know the pain of living with a name you never owned or the many years forgetting what you know too well The ones who gave the crown have been let down You try to make amends without defending Perhaps pretending you never saw the eyes of grown men of twenty five that followed as you walked and asked for autographs or kissed you on the cheek and you never could believe they really loved you Some make it when they're old (Perhaps they have a soul they're not afraid to bare Or perhaps there's nothing there) Some women have a body men will want to see, so they put it on display Some people play a fine guitar I could listen to them play all day Some ladies really move across a stage and gee, they sure can dance I guess I could learn how if I have it half a chance but I always feel so funny when my body tries to soar and I seem to always worry about missing the next chord I guess there isn't anything to put up on display except the tunes and whatever else I say Anyway, that isn't really what I meant to say I meant to tell a story I live from day to day Stars, they come and go They come fast or slow They go like the last light of the sun, all in a blaze and all you see is glory But those who've seen it all they live their lives in sad cafes and music halls we always have a story So if you don't lose patience with my fumbling around, I'll come up singing for you even when I'm down |
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from Janis Ian - Janis Ian (2005)
Faithful is a lie
Freedom's just a game somebody tacked onto your ball and chain Love is a drug You've been canonized Want to be a high priestess? then you got to sacrifice Somebody wants you to put out your eyes and drag you lower on the ladder than he is Reel you in slowly kingfish on a line Some people get a kick out of making you suffer You try the patience of the gods in the heat of a moment's pleasure and your sad retreat Mistake the moment for the song The actor for the role The neon light for day Somebody wants you to clip your wings Take shelter in the dark and the savage heat Mocks you with the burning sky and drops you in the ring Somebody gets a kick out of seeing you suffer He can't take pleasure He feeds on pain He ain't no gambler He just likes to play the game It's a measure of a man It's a candle in the rain to treasure the link and not the chain |
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Faithful is a lie
Freedom's just a game somebody tacked onto your ball and chain Love is a drug You've been canonized Want to be a high priestess? then you got to sacrifice Somebody wants you to put out your eyes and drag you lower on the ladder than he is Reel you in slowly kingfish on a line Some people get a kick out of making you suffer You try the patience of the gods in the heat of a moment's pleasure and your sad retreat Mistake the moment for the song The actor for the role The neon light for day Somebody wants you to clip your wings Take shelter in the dark and the savage heat Mocks you with the burning sky and drops you in the ring Somebody gets a kick out of seeing you suffer He can't take pleasure He feeds on pain He ain't no gambler He just likes to play the game It's a measure of a man It's a candle in the rain to treasure the link and not the chain |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Slow dance
romance put your arm around me you make me feel so old Take me to the drive-in movie wont't you move me now before I get too cold Popcorn serenader won't you take her down easy you make her feel like gold Midnight crusader when you take her easily make her feel like gold Boom town hoe down run across the track don't look back just lay low Party pants running romance interference got to make appearance sooner or later I'm told Slow dance promenader want to make her feel easy make her feel like gold midnight crusader when you take it easy make it feel like gold What a line was a long time wasn't moonshine, wasn't wiskey, wasn't even party glow got no looks wasn't half-hooked must've been some kind of book they took that showed 'em where to go midnight persuader got to break this town down slow moonlight serenader when you make it easy make it feel like gold |
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Slow dance
romance put your arm around me you make me feel so old Take me to the drive-in movie wont't you move me now before I get too cold Popcorn serenader won't you take her down easy you make her feel like gold Midnight crusader when you take her easily make her feel like gold Boom town hoe down run across the track don't look back just lay low Party pants running romance interference got to make appearance sooner or later I'm told Slow dance promenader want to make her feel easy make her feel like gold midnight crusader when you take it easy make it feel like gold What a line was a long time wasn't moonshine, wasn't wiskey, wasn't even party glow got no looks wasn't half-hooked must've been some kind of book they took that showed 'em where to go midnight persuader got to break this town down slow moonlight serenader when you make it easy make it feel like gold |
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from Janis Ian - Janis Ian (2005)
I'm still in love
though I don't care to let you know there's something there it doesn't show but when you're near silly habits mean a lot I've been alone now for quite some time, it's true but every night when I come home I'm coming home to you I listen for your footsteps Sometimes I even knock Silly habits mean a lot I've been parading and I've led a lot astray Why bother waiting? when you can have it all today You may remember I like my coffee hot Silly habits mean a lot So you go your way and I'll go mine Maybe someday our paths will re-entwine I used to say "I love you" but one day I forgot Silly habits mean a lot |
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from Janis Ian - Janis Ian (2005)
I'm still in love
though I don't care to let you know there's something there it doesn't show but when you're near silly habits mean a lot I've been alone now for quite some time, it's true but every night when I come home I'm coming home to you I listen for your footsteps Sometimes I even knock Silly habits mean a lot I've been parading and I've led a lot astray Why bother waiting? when you can have it all today You may remember I like my coffee hot Silly habits mean a lot So you go your way and I'll go mine Maybe someday our paths will re-entwine I used to say "I love you" but one day I forgot Silly habits mean a lot |
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from Janis Ian - Janis Ian (2005)
I'm still in love
though I don't care to let you know there's something there it doesn't show but when you're near silly habits mean a lot I've been alone now for quite some time, it's true but every night when I come home I'm coming home to you I listen for your footsteps Sometimes I even knock Silly habits mean a lot I've been parading and I've led a lot astray Why bother waiting? when you can have it all today You may remember I like my coffee hot Silly habits mean a lot So you go your way and I'll go mine Maybe someday our paths will re-entwine I used to say "I love you" but one day I forgot Silly habits mean a lot |
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from Janis Ian - God & The Fbi (2000)
The seagulls of summer have flown
The sailors have wintered their boats Come sit by the fire And tell me your secrets Love isn't kept easily The windows are shuttered and closed Blankets to keep out the cold But you are still restless Your heart is enchanted Drifting away from me And is she beautiful She must be pretty or worse To ride the high seas She must be beautiful White linen sails That have captured your vagrant breeze Singing her siren song Luring you far from the harbor And into the gales She must be beautiful So beautiful To have stolen the wind from my sails Casting your dreams out to sea Will you remember me As years go by Slipped with the tide It was I who set you free And is she beautiful She must be pretty or worse To ride the high seas She must be beautiful White linen sails That have captured your vagrant breeze Singing her siren song Luring you far from the harbor And into the gales She must be beautiful So beautiful To have stolen the wind from my sails So beautiful To have stolen the wind from my sails |
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from Janis Ian - Billie'S Bones (2004)
In the heart of the city
Is the beat of a soul? And it stares out the window As the cars come and go And it hungers for heroes And it dreams of open skies And there's no expectation That the sun will rise You better save somebody Save somebody Before the moment slips away You better save somebody Who'll be lonely? When you walk away There's a crack in the heavens And a tear in the sky It cuts through the shadows Living in her eyes And the gates of the city Are closed until dawn When the ghosts of midnight Have come and gone And the hearts of the weary carry on You better save somebody Save somebody Before the moment slips away You better save somebody Who'll be lonely? When you walk away And I'm thinking of your silence How the memory lingers on And I wonder do you miss me Now that I am gone Now that I am gone You better save somebody Save somebody Before the moment slips away You better save somebody Who'll be lonely? When you walk away |
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from Janis Ian - Aftertones (1975)
She never had too much of money
Friendly strangers were all she knew Nobody ever came to call but you I would not say she isn't happy Though the eyes of a fool will make her blue Nobody's ever seen the tears it's true I guess nobody wanted to We'll have a celebration Ice cream and candy cakes She's very young to go so far away And then there'll be the papers In black and white to say we're through Nobody every loved me quite like you I guess nobody wanted to And there'll be roses In the springtime still I guess there will I wish her roses and song And she'll be older As years go by, and how they fly Will she be lonely without me along? She doesn't make friends easily She's only known a few The incidental stranger passing through On Sundays and holidays I'll take her far away We never tried to save the love we knew I guess nobody wanted to |
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from Janis Ian - Breaking Silence/ 24k Gold Limited Edition (2004)
hide me in your hollows
taste the salt that clings to me shipwrecked in your shadows sanctify the sea hide me in the wisdom of your thighs ride me like a wave chart my secret places navigate my shores map the oceans traces lick them from my pores drown me in delusion and desire ride me like a wave cover me in spray promise you will stay I remember mornings waking by your side your scent on the pillow, fever in your eyes cast upon the waters, shipless I surrender lead me to your harbour cover me in splendor drown me in delusion and desire ride me like a wave (cover me in spray) other seas will call you... farther shores will shine tempt you with their treasures bordering to mine still the safest harbor will be mine ride me like a wave ride me like a wave |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Party lights
is there anybody here tonight? Doesn't anybody have a light? Party lights Champagne and caviar cocaine and Shalimar Don't push too far your party lights People tell me that I'm fading fast but I can't last the whole night through Everybody now it's closing time I can't find my way to you don't lose your head Remember all those things your mama said but every vampire here appears well-fed You look half-dead They like you, kid Party games somebody pinned a needle in me and I went insane Walking on the edge of the line in the driving rain I felt no pain It's a hell of a game People tell me there's an end to this but one last kiss turns into two Everybody can't leave now i don't know how to make it through Heady wine moving too slow for me can't keep time watching the silent movie for a sign in my prime heady wine You move too slow I'm drowning- don't let go I'm drowning- can't say no keep it low hell of a show People tell me that I'm fading fast but I can't last the whole night trough Everybody now it's closing time I can't find my way to you |
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from Janis Ian - Miracle Row (2005)
Party lights
is there anybody here tonight? Doesn't anybody have a light? Party lights Champagne and caviar cocaine and Shalimar Don't push too far your party lights People tell me that I'm fading fast but I can't last the whole night through Everybody now it's closing time I can't find my way to you don't lose your head Remember all those things your mama said but every vampire here appears well-fed You look half-dead They like you, kid Party games somebody pinned a needle in me and I went insane Walking on the edge of the line in the driving rain I felt no pain It's a hell of a game People tell me there's an end to this but one last kiss turns into two Everybody can't leave now i don't know how to make it through Heady wine moving too slow for me can't keep time watching the silent movie for a sign in my prime heady wine You move too slow I'm drowning- don't let go I'm drowning- can't say no keep it low hell of a show People tell me that I'm fading fast but I can't last the whole night trough Everybody now it's closing time I can't find my way to you |
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from Janis Ian - Billie'S Bones (2004)
Every time I see you, I see Paris in your eyes
A hint of the forbidden, Brigitte Bardot style Every time I dream of you, I dream that distant land Where I once held tomorrow in my hand First time I saw Paris in your eyes You told me how you loved me Under blue Picasso skies We spoke of Michelangelo And we solved each others' lives The first time I saw Paris in your eyes Every time I touched you, I could taste a breath of spring April in Paris is every lover's dream Every time I'd call your name, It would sound so much in tune Just like Notre dame cathedral at high noon First time I saw Paris in your eyes You told me how you loved me Under blue Picasso skies We spoke of Michelangelo And we solved each others' lives The first time I saw Paris in your eyes Now every time I see you April showers seem to start And they rain on every hope I have 'Til they hurricane my heart And every time I dream of you I dream of what we had And wonder how could something so good go so bad The last time I saw Paris in your eyes You told me you were leaving Under blue Picasso skies We spoke of Michelangelo And believed each others' lies The last time I saw Paris in your eyes The last time I saw Paris in your eyes |
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from Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
Would you really come and live with me
We can watch TV when the nights are cold And it’s hard to sleep When I’m hungry, when I’m old When I’m angry, when I’m cold Honey, I don’t know Would you really come and take my cares away Set me down in an easy chair and stay a while Child, that’s a righteous thing you do To make somebody just this happy Like you done me to I can see the years go down You and me, we’ll paint the town Lord, if my mama and my papa could see me now I'm great at building castles in the air And living there for days - you’d be amazed I live in dreams and when I can I go to sleep and there I am and there you are When I’m hungry for the taste Of loving you and your embrace It’s hard to wait ‘Cause I’ve been waiting here so long a time But if you say it’s right, honey, I don’t mind We got all the years ahead Time for everything we said Lord, if my mama and my papa could see me now I'd be happy living in a shack With all the plumbing in the back But you might not, you know So maybe we better have a home I’d be glad on a farm with a million dogs Or a cave with bats But you wouldn’t like that Maybe we gotta have a home Will you really come and live with me I'd be so proud In loving you, I’m loving me I make it funny and I make you laugh ‘Cause it makes it easy getting past All the being scared I can see the years go down You and me, we’ll paint the town Lord if my mama and my papa could see me now Oh lord, if my mama and my papa could see me now |
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from Janis Ian - Billie'S Bones (2004)
When all my dreams have been shattered
And the fabric of life comes undone When it seems like nothing matters And all of my good times are gone There's a place that I've kept sheltered From the sight of my sorrow and shame Though it's years since I beheld her She still calls my name I'll go home, I'll go home Where the wild shadows roam And the dawn over mountaintops spills Where the deer pause in flight On the edge of the night I'll go home to my Tennessee hills I'll go home to my Tennessee hills When all my vows have been broken And my wild heart can't be tamed When I've loved and lost once too often And failure is my middle name There's a place that holds forgiveness And the promise of peace in despair When I'm down to my last witness I'll be going there I'll go home, I'll go home Where the wild shadows roam And the dawn over mountaintops spills Where the deer pause in flight On the edge of the night I'll go home to my Tennessee hills I'll go home to my Tennessee hills |
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