- between the lines / Janis ian (제니스 이안)

 Janis Ian ...Between the Lines

 Between the moments of our games and repartee
 There's never much to read
 Between the lines of what we need
 And what we'll take

 

 There's never much to talk
 About or say aloud, but say it anyway
 Of holidays and yesterdays
 And broken dreams that somehow slipped away 

 

 In books and magazines of how to be
 And what to see while you are being
 Before and after photographs
 Teach how to pass from reaching to believing

 We live beyond our means on
 Other peoples' dreams, and that's succeeding
 Between the lines of photographs,
 I've seen the past, it isn't pleasing 

 

 So strike another match
 We'll have another cup of wine
 And dance until the evening's dead
 Of too much song and time

 

 There's never much to talk about
 Or read between the lines
 Of what we dream about when we're apart
 And no one's looking on to say "You're mine" 

 It was a good year then, 
 It was a good year then, we all remember
 The time you threw the looking glass
 And seemed a fool, or very clever

 

 Don't spoil it all, I can't recall
 A time when you were left without an answer
 We'll live a quiet peaceful time
 Between the lines, and go together 

 And I'm striking up the band
 To play our last hurrah
 We'll dance until we've killed
 Another evening off

 

 Don't think of anyone but me
 I'll have no lovers on the side
 Tonight is all we ever dreamed about
 For once, let's get it right

 

 We'll go down flying in the end
 So throw another bottle in between the lines
 We'll go down like a ship of state
 Let's be gracious now, between the lines