Janis Ian A Song For All The Seasons Of Your Mind
Waterfalls cascading downa summer wind of golden brown
The leaves are flying in the air and in the sky your
tangled hair
Petals wear on moonlit nights, they’re all the same on
sunbeam lights
Watch the sky as it turns blue. Night is slow to rush
on you
a song for all the seasons of your mind
Avalanches burying and all the doctors hurrying
Mental institutions and the pain of retribution
All the muddy ponds and dirty sewers feed your mind
upon a skewer
Put you up and pull you down. Rusty nails turn fingers
brown
A song for all the seasons of your mind
Laughter flows among the trees. A golden green hilarity
Your eyes are aching from the sun and though the
evening’s just begun
you don’t know why you’re laughing so. There is no
cause for it to show
but just the same, fall to the floor of all the good
times you recall
A song for all the seasons of your mind
Running through a blackened dream, waken with a
nightmare scream
See your clothing come alive. Earthquakes cause your
mind to slide
Try to find where peace is gone. Like turning live a
rubber swan
Floating down an endless stream, forgetting mental
poverty
A song for all the seasons of your mind
Happiness at loving one. Your game of grace for sad
eyed swans
and quietly beneath the tree , loving all his mystery
The grass is still, it comes alive. Beneath your naked
foot it writhes
Feel the life within you grow like beauty on a newborn
rose
A song for all the reasons of your mind
Emptiness at losing him. The memory of all you’ve been
The grass is sharp to walk upon, the petals black, the
trees are gone
Like frightened dogs before the war, you dream you
search for just one more
as one becomes another one , you wonder where the day
has gone
A song for all the seasons of your mind
On the silent evening breeze , knowledge comes so
quietly
Clear blue water from above, an avalanche can teach you
love
The leaves that swirl about your eyes may wear an
unforeseen disguise
But when your clothing comes alive, you can be sure
it’s you inside
a song for all the seasons of your mind
