Janis Ian - Down And Away lyrics

I know your name
Through every drop of rain that falls
I've known them all
Through every stillborn hurricane
And the skies unchained
On the unwashed plain and the driving rain
Time has a way of slipping past
Like reason through the hourglass
We hear too fast the lines don't last

Not like they used to do when I had you
The lines I threw away down and away

I loved you young
When all impression gathered, spun
On foreign suns we gathered crumbs
One or another drifting by
Past regiments of humble pie
And the soggy sky and the unstitched eye
Writ across the glass of an unsung past

Not like it used to do when I had you
The words I threw away down and away

On the unmarked road to hell
All the faithless heroes dwell
And the wine blood sand of a burned out land
Drifting on the wind
Of each and every faceless sin

Bursting through the eyes
Of these whitewashed skies
Not unlike the sighs
Of your pale blue thighs
Unchecked visions stream
Each, succeeding, dreams
On the rights of kings
And the balance swings

Not like it used to do when I had you
The lives I threw away down and away
Down and away