Not a better song exists that captures the pain of divorce...it’s the little things that hurt the most...Janis remains the most soulful writer/singer even after all these years. Just haunting...
Ian has written here a perfect country song, but I hear one of those wonderful deep baritone country singers covering this one - a Trace Adkins or Jackson maybe. This song needs to live again. Great song writing here.
Thank you for this rare video. Only a few singer-songwriters can craft beautifully sad songs like Janis Ian. But no one captures them with such emotions. Always my favorite.
Twenty yrs. now--in the winter, extra blankets for my bed. Still gettin' over the "gettin' over"...Your words are as dear today as ever Janis. Bless you for the truth's sake!
Me too. Some of us just never got over the loss, ever, of certain loves. It's been years now for me, and you are right, I've just learned, somehow, to live without. It's still pains me but is less agonizing than it was. Love, when lost and gone, has to be the worse pain any human can experience.
Yes, so true. The love of your life ends it all with you and after 30 years years, you have moved on with your life of course, but you have never really gotten over "that one" 100 %.
nowadays,I find myself hanging on to past memories, wondering why? what it would have been like if we had.. but now it's too late, and i need to let go and face reality alone..
Me, too, I replay my life every day. I am just glad I was fortunate enough to have had such a wonderful, fun- and love-filled life, and have such great memories to sustain me. Yes, sadness, too, and "lost" loves, but rich..oh, so rich.
@ Les Mahler - I was 16 , and in my Summer months. She was 15 , blest with every social skills imaginable. Incomparably stunning with shoulder length shinny black hair and azure blue eyes - I couldn't be in her presence in a pair of swim trunks. Because I played guitar, I would get invited -through my sister - to join in house parties involving this girl. I would play out my heart onto the strings - every tear. You could hear a pin drop at the end. But she was only interested in another. Married badly, and after two sons divorced to save herself from physical abuse. I've always wondered, even after 55 years.....
It's a lot of both.... always look at each moment, the ones that you will never want to forget... there are always, those blessings, if you choose to pay attention.
This is such a beautiful song. I love the music of Janis Ian. Thanks for posting. Please listen to the song " I want you to know the writers". Thank you.
I hear you. Over 25 years and this song still makes me think of him and cry. He married somebody else while I was still waking up crying every morning. How can you move so quickly? How can you heal so fast?
@@thesisypheanjournal1271 I know your heartache all too well, I'm very sorry he broke your heart. My exhusband married the girl he left me for 2 weeks after our divorce was final & then was cruel enough to email me pictures of their wedding 3 separate times , a completely heartless thing to do to me. I wish you healing my dear 😘
Chris Sawyer Chris Sawyer 1 year ago Greg Howell7 months ago Borrowed things on guarded lines Sign the past away This is yours and that is mine So the people say How can you move so quickly? How can you heal so fast? And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe? How can I start all over? Knowing we'll just be friends And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Mmmmm oooh After this day is over How will my dreams go on? And what will I do with my mornings? Tell me what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Ask me when I'm through getting over you Songwriters BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
Greg Howell7 months ago Borrowed things on guarded lines Sign the past away This is yours and that is mine So the people say How can you move so quickly? How can you heal so fast? And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe? How can I start all over? Knowing we'll just be friends And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Mmmmm oooh After this day is over How will my dreams go on? And what will I do with my mornings? Tell me what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Ask me when I'm through getting over you Songwriters BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
Chris Sawyer9 months ago Greg Howell7 months ago Borrowed things on guarded lines Sign the past away This is yours and that is mine So the people say How can you move so quickly? How can you heal so fast? And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe? How can I start all over? Knowing we'll just be friends And what will I do with my mornings? And what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Mmmmm oooh After this day is over How will my dreams go on? And what will I do with my mornings? Tell me what will I do with my nights? You want answers that I can't give You want words I don't know Ask me when I'm through getting over you Ask me when I'm through getting over you Songwriters BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
After 30 years of marriage my husband left me for a woman he met online, after all we had lived through together I asked him "what about all the memories?" He replied "the memories mean more to you than they do to me". Those were the cruelest words I'd ever heard, it meant to me that our life together was only a lie. After our divorce within 2 weeks he married her & he had the heartlessness to email me their wedding photos. I took all the decades of photos of our life together & burned them in the fire pit in the backyard.
Hattie, tell him to f*** off and live your life happily. We can't force anyone to love us, do we? Best thing we can do is to move on and live your life the way we want to.
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Not a better song exists that captures the pain of divorce...it’s the little things that hurt the most...Janis remains the most soulful writer/singer even after all these years. Just haunting...
Ian has written here a perfect country song, but I hear one of those wonderful deep baritone country singers covering this one - a Trace Adkins or Jackson maybe. This song needs to live again. Great song writing here.
So touching and beautiful, Janis Ian's voice and words are pure and this song is so sad, it moves me to tears every time.
It gets me everytime too so touchy.
Thank you for this rare video. Only a few singer-songwriters can craft beautifully sad songs like Janis Ian. But no one captures them with such emotions. Always my favorite.
But what would we without you and your songs?
Twenty yrs. now--in the winter, extra blankets for my bed. Still gettin' over the "gettin' over"...Your words are as dear today as ever Janis. Bless you for the truth's sake!
Some love we never get over, we just learn to live without. Love your music Janis~ since I was a girl :-)
Cindi Fielder me too.
Me too. Some of us just never got over the loss, ever, of certain loves. It's been years now for me, and you are right, I've just learned, somehow, to live without. It's still pains me but is less agonizing than it was. Love, when lost and gone, has to be the worse pain any human can experience.
Yes, so true. The love of your life ends it all with you and after 30 years years, you have moved on with your life of course, but you have never really gotten over "that one" 100 %.
So far today I have been sharing every single song by Janice I have come across as they are simply superb.
Perhaps the most painful break-up song ever made.
Absolutely shattered - can there be a more painful, poignant, gut-wrenching... beautiful song?
Such a beautiful and moving song. Janis Ian is wonderful.
such raw emotion, beautiful words and melody... another great Janis Ian song.
This is the saddest break up song I've ever heard....
Janis is in a class of her own. Brilliant song and performance.
Still listening to Janis since 70s great voice play's so smooth
This is so very beautiful, I thank you Janis Ian, I love you to pieces, yet again...
Janis es la mejor. Sus canciones me llegan al alma.
A masterclass in sad song construction.
Breathtaking... Just adore Janis...
Great song, sad song by the beautiful Janis!
my wife and I's trials and tribulations before she died. I love you sweethart...
Oh my, this song is so real. When you lose that one. There is why, what. Beautiful song of loss and how to be.
nowadays,I find myself hanging on to past memories, wondering why? what it would have been like if we had..
but now it's too late, and i need to let go and face reality alone..
Me, too, I replay my life every day. I am just glad I was fortunate enough to have had such a wonderful, fun- and love-filled life, and have such great memories to sustain me. Yes, sadness, too, and "lost" loves, but rich..oh, so rich.
@ Les Mahler - I was 16 , and in my Summer months. She was 15 , blest with every social skills imaginable. Incomparably stunning with shoulder length shinny black hair and azure blue eyes - I couldn't be in her presence in a pair of swim trunks. Because I played guitar, I would get invited -through my sister - to join in house parties involving this girl. I would play out my heart onto the strings - every tear. You could hear a pin drop at the end. But she was only interested in another. Married badly, and after two sons divorced to save herself from physical abuse. I've always wondered, even after 55 years.....
It's a lot of both.... always look at each moment, the ones that you will never want to forget... there are always, those blessings, if you choose to pay attention.
I get sad every time I hear this song. 😢
Wish there were more song writers out there now that can convey emotions so eloquently....
This is such a beautiful song. I love the music of Janis Ian. Thanks for posting. Please listen to the song " I want you to know the writers". Thank you.
Very intense....and beautiful!!
no holds bared, incredible
16 years now & I'm still trying to get over him, he left a 30 year marriage in the dust & just walked away. Shattered me.
I hear you. Over 25 years and this song still makes me think of him and cry. He married somebody else while I was still waking up crying every morning. How can you move so quickly? How can you heal so fast?
@@thesisypheanjournal1271
I know your heartache all too well, I'm very sorry he broke your heart. My exhusband married the girl he left me for 2 weeks after our divorce was final & then was cruel enough to email me pictures of their wedding 3 separate times , a completely heartless thing to do to me. I wish you healing my dear 😘
Beautiful!
Borrowed things on guarded lines
Sign the past away
This is yours and that is mine
So the people say
How can you move so quickly?
How can you heal so fast?
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me
Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe?
How can I start all over?
Knowing we'll just be friends
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Mmmmm oooh
After this day is over
How will my dreams go on?
And what will I do with my mornings?
Tell me what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Songwriters
BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
Published by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, A SIDE MUSIC LLC
Borrowed pens on dotted lines.
Jan de Vries ‘Papers’ not ‘people’.
Feel as if my guts have been hung out to dry. Just amazing and sooo poignant. Divorce just levels one.. So sad.
I hope new hope now blossoms in you.... God bless you and be safe...
Beautiful.
I have love Janis since I was 17 :) My life time ambition would be to meet her x
Pierces my heart
Love the words to this one from Ian
Perfection!
Gut-wrenching!!!
From 1997's "Hunger" album, Janis decided to include two versions of this song- acoustic and orchestral.
Achingly beautiful
Ouf le don de te toucher en plein coeur
I've been that person once. I have hurt him so much.
I hope he was able to heal.
Janis Ian is perfection. A 40 year love affair.
I allays wondered about her mornings and her nights. So sad. And now I wonder about mine
Chris Sawyer
Chris Sawyer
1 year ago
Greg Howell7 months ago
Borrowed things on guarded lines
Sign the past away
This is yours and that is mine
So the people say
How can you move so quickly?
How can you heal so fast?
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me
Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe?
How can I start all over?
Knowing we'll just be friends
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Mmmmm oooh
After this day is over
How will my dreams go on?
And what will I do with my mornings?
Tell me what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Songwriters
BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
Wow
Greg Howell7 months ago
Borrowed things on guarded lines
Sign the past away
This is yours and that is mine
So the people say
How can you move so quickly?
How can you heal so fast?
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me
Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe?
How can I start all over?
Knowing we'll just be friends
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Mmmmm oooh
After this day is over
How will my dreams go on?
And what will I do with my mornings?
Tell me what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Songwriters
BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
Borrowed PENS on DOTTED lines
so the PAPERS say
Chris Sawyer9 months ago
Greg Howell7 months ago
Borrowed things on guarded lines
Sign the past away
This is yours and that is mine
So the people say
How can you move so quickly?
How can you heal so fast?
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
Tell me what you see in her that used to be in me
Why is it the simple truths are hardest to believe?
How can I start all over?
Knowing we'll just be friends
And what will I do with my mornings?
And what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Mmmmm oooh
After this day is over
How will my dreams go on?
And what will I do with my mornings?
Tell me what will I do with my nights?
You want answers that I can't give
You want words I don't know
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Ask me when I'm through getting over you
Songwriters
BURR, GARY SCOTT / IAN, JANIS
My friend, its: "Borrowed pens on dotted lines,,,sign the past away"
check out Flossie Malavialle's version on
you tube :)
I did. Meh! Blah! Not even close.
thank you sam.
After 30 years of marriage my husband left me for a woman he met online, after all we had lived through together I asked him "what about all the memories?" He replied "the memories mean more to you than they do to me".
Those were the cruelest words I'd ever heard, it meant to me that our life together was only a lie. After our divorce within 2 weeks he married her & he had the heartlessness to email me their wedding photos. I took all the decades of photos of our life together & burned them in the fire pit in the backyard.
hattie nuff That’s dreadful. I’m so sorry.
Painful... so sad....
Hattie, tell him to f*** off and live your life happily. We can't force anyone to love us, do we? Best thing we can do is to move on and live your life the way we want to.