Between the Lines

Mono Monday: Line


Many thanks to JDO for hosting the mm challenge for the month of June and for her title: Line.   It reminded me of an album from the mid 1970s which I love but have not listened to recently.


"There's never much to say between the moments of
Our games and repartee
There's never much to read between 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 of 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 talk 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"
 
Janis Ian - Between the Lines
 
If you've never listened to Janis Ian's 1975 album "Between the Lines" you really should, its a delight.

JDO has also given me a chance to go and shoot a landscape for a change and to have a brief break from the macro's that I've been shooting a lot of recently.  However, tomorrow is Tiny Tuesday so I suspect I will be getting up close and person with the macro lens :-)