Page Nine - Janis Ian

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

Would 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

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, 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

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 down

You and me, we’ll paint the town

Lord if my mama and my papa could see me now

Oh lord, if my mama and my papa could see me now