Janis Ian — Watercolors Live at the Sydney Opera House

[Verse 1] I remember photographs Watercolors of the past He turned and said, "You ask much of me" And when we made our peace We'd lay between the sheets He turned and said, "I set you free" [Chorus 1] 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 [Chorus 2] Go on, be a hero, I set you free Your stagehand lovershave conquered me They'll send you carnations While smiling faces look on and applaud Go on, go on, go away from me [Verse 2] I said, "Do you wish me dead?" Lip service to books you've read And articles on how to bed a bird in flights [Pre-Chorus] You called it love, I called it greed You say you take what you want I said you'll get what you need [Chorus 3] 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 [Bridge] He said, "Come unto me I am beauty, I am the light Come unto me Hold on the darkness and stay the night I am wonder, I am the heart's delight Tomorrow we'll fight" [Outro] 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, and I'll change your mind But for tonight, turn out the light Hold me Come on, come on And set me free Lend me your charity [Spoken Introduction to "New York in the Springtime"] We're all from New York I've been away for seven weeks Which is a long time to a New Yorker I haven't had a good pastrami on rye in a long time So uh, this song is for New York City Which is, uh, kinda like Sydney— Except we have a lot more porn shops, King's Cross even Always up in King's Cross—it was great, it was really cool So I like—I mean Australians have a real fondness for animals As I pass by these store it's a girl and her dog It's a great fondness for Dobermans A lotta large dogs—lotta large girls actually I won't go into it now, he he Anyway, no levity, you guys have to be very serious about this one New York is about to fall into the ocean, any day now— The weight of our bankruptcy Ahem...