Ian Janis Between The Lines Lyrics

Between The Lines Lyrics

There's never much to say between the moments of

   our games and repartee

 There's never much to read betweeen the lines of

   what we need and what we'll take

 There's never much to talk about or say aloud,

   but say it anyway

 Of holidays and yesterdays, and broken dreams

   that somehow slipped away

 

 In books and magazines on how to be and what to see

   while you are being

 Before and after photographs teach how to pass

   from reaching to believing

 We live beyond our means on other people's dreams

   and that's succeeding

 Between the lines of photographs I've seen the past --

   it isn't pleasing

 

 So strike another match

 We'll have another cup of wine

 And dance until the evening's dead

 Of too much song and time

 There's never much to speak about

 Or read between the lines

 Of what we dream about

 When we're apart

 And no one's looking on

 To say you're mine

 

 It was a good year then, it was a good year then,

   we all remember

 The time you threw the looking glass and seemed a fool

   or very clever

 Don't spoil it all, I can't recall a time when you were

   struck without an answer

 We'll live a quiet peaceful time between the lines

   and go together

 

 And I'm striking up the band to play our last hurrah

 We'll dance until we've killed another evening off

 Don't think of anyone but me

 I'll have no lovers on the side

 Tonight is all we've ever dreamed about

 For once let's get it right

 We'll go down flying in the end

 Through another bottle in between the lines

 I'll go down like a ship of state

 Let's be gracious now

 Between the lines