Janis Ian Page Nine
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.
Wo;; 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.
But 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, then, 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.
Ho, 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 'round.
You and me, we'll paint the town.
Lord, if my mom and my pop could see me now.
Oh, Lord, if my mama and my papa could see me now
