Janis Ian - Down And Away Lyrics
I know your name
Through every drop of rain that falls
I've known them all
Through every stillborn hurricane
And the skies unchained on the unwashed plain
Time has a way of slipping past
Like reason through the hourglass
We hear too fast
The lines don't last
Not like they used to do
When I had you
How fast they flew away
Down and away
I loved you young
When all impression gathered
Spun on foreign suns
We gathered crumbs
One or another drifting by
Past regiments of humble pie
And the soggy sky and the unstitched eye
Writ across the glass
Of an unsung past
Not like it used to do
When I had you
The words I threw away
Down and away
On the unmarked road to hell
All the faithless heroes dwell
And the wine blood sand
Of a burned out land
Drifting on the wind
Of each and every faceless sin
Bursting through the eyes
Of your whitewashed skies
Not unlike the sighs
Of these pale blue thighs
Unchecked visions stream
Each succeeding dreams
On the rights of kings
And the balance swings
Not like it used to do
When I had you
The lives I threw away
Down and away
Down and away
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Janis Ian - Welcome To Acousticville
- Janis Ian - No One Else Like You
- Janis Ian - Tenderness
- Janis Ian - Take No Prisoners
- Janis Ian - Ready For The War
- Janis Ian - Breaking Silence
- Janis Ian - Some People's Lives
- Janis Ian - This House
- Janis Ian - Through The Years
- Janis Ian - This Train Still Runs
- Janis Ian - Walking On Sacred Ground
- Janis Ian - His Hands
- Janis Ian - What About The Love
- Janis Ian - Davy
- Janis Ian - When The Silence Falls
- Janis Ian - Hunger
- Janis Ian - Searching For America
- Janis Ian - Getting Over You
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Janis Ian Down And Away Comments
This is probably an amazing song, but I really can't make out what she's singing. Did anyone actually get paid for recording and mixing these sessions? She deserves better.
This is one of her best songs. The lyrics and the melody are stunning.