Ian Janis Watercolors Lyrics

Watercolors Lyrics

I remember photographs

 Watercolors of the past

 He turned and said,

 "You ask much of me"

 Then when we made our peace

 We lay between the sheets

 He turned and said,

 "I set you free"

 

 Go on, be a hero, 

 Be a photograph

 Make your own myths,

 Christ, I hope they last

 Longer than mine

 Wider than the sky

 We measure time by

 Go on, be a hero,

 I set you free

 Your stagehand lovers

 Have conquered me

 They'll send yu carnations

 While smiling faces look on and applaud

 Go on, go on, go away from me

 

 I said, "Do you wish me dead?"

 Lip service to books you've read

 Articles on how to bed a bird in flight

 You called it love

 I called it greed

 You say, "You take what you want"

 I said, "You get what you need"

 Go on, be a hero, be a man

 Make your own destiny if you can

 Go find a fence

 Locate a shell

 And hide yourself, go on, go to hell

 Go away from me

 I need no charity

 

 He said, Come unto me

 I am beauty I am the light

 Come unto me

 Hold the darkness and stay the night

 I am wonder I am the heart's delight

 Tomorrow we'll fight

 Come on, come on

 Come on, come near to me

 Come be my fantasy

 We'll talk it over again some time

 You'll send some flowers to change my mind

 But for tonight, turn out the light

 Hold me, come on, come on, 

 And set me free

 Lend me your charity.