AFTERTONES

When You're Fifty-one

Janis' album "god & the fbi" is a monument to love and peace, past times and sadness, dreams and great bravery. For her birthday on 7 April 2002, the haunting "When You Love Someone", with a few hints of other tracks, provides an ideal vehicle to reflect on those themes in all of Janis' glorious achievements thus far ....

Happy Birthday, Janis.  (PS. you're now older than me, yet again).

 
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  ... celebrating a certain birthday on 7 April 2002, and assessing progress to date ...

 ... to the music of Janis Ian's "When You Love Someone", from her most recent 'released' album, "god & the fbi".
 

When you're fifty-one …
 It's a Shadow at the start
 It's a show in the park
 It's your people in the rain
 It's a malt to ease the pain
 And it's love against ground zero

When you're fifty-one …
 It's a drive around the land
 It's another touring band
 Filling cracks in hometown walls
 Playing like a girl, with balls
 It has made them all believe …

When you're fifty-one …
 You can Climb up Every Mountain
 You can rise from tempurpedic, yeah
 You can comeback from the chiro
 You can motor this world over
 All you reap, you sow
 (and that don't rhyme with cow)

When you're fifty-one …
 Days like these are what you crave
 Love the cradle, shun the grave
 Share the different truths you've learned
 All those bridges proudly burned
 You have pissed on the obscene
 And made magic from our dreams
 Wizard Janis Octarine
 Three times over, seventeen
 Be at peace with all you've spun
 At fifty-one
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 


 
 

 

Trovador 
 
Like-minded links 
for this song!
"Treasure the link .."
 
"When You Love Someone"
 Lyrics of the real thing!
 
god & the fbi
 Discography and album background
 
Janis' Newsletters
 .. from the last few years - starting with the most recent
 
Janis Ian's own Website
 Full of glorious treasures!
 
 
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