Intro "Moving Back Home""" chords by Janis Ian
Verse 1
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Songs are funny things, you know.
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It always amazes me when I write a song
and actually finish it and look at it and go,
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wow, I wrote a song.
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I mean, still, it's magical to me.
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An d I went through a period in my
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life
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where it was pretty dark.
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I'd had to move back in with my mom,
which was in and of itself quite
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embarrassing at 22.
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And I was having to
ask her for money
for things like cigarettes
because I was making this record.
And I kept telling myself, someday, someday,
someday, someday
I'll write a song that every
body understands.
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I'll write just the er song.
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And then I'll show it to my mom
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and I'll say,
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this is what I did
when I stayed with you.
And sure enough, one Sunday
I was sitting at her kitchen table
reading a copy she'd bought me
of the New York Times.
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And there was an article in there
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about debutantes,
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and I looked at the article,
and the girl said she'd learned the truth at 18,
and I thought, well,
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that won't scam.
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So it became 17.
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I should really do, when I was 17.
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And you know, my mom came
home three months later,
because that's how long it took
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to write it
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and I played her the song
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and I said but I'm never gonna sing it again
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after this because it's just too personal
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and when I looked up when I fin
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ished
my mom was crying
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and I said what's the matter
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and she said but that's my song
and I thought wow did my job
Intro "Moving Back Home"""
Janis Ian
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