I'm Still Standing - Janis Ian (Official Audio)

"I'm Still Standing" by Janis Ian. Listen here: ffm.to/janisian-imstillstandi...
LYRICS:
See these lines on my face?
They’re a map of where I’ve been
And the deeper they are traced,
the deeper life has settled in
How do we survive living out our lives?
And I would not trade a line
Make it smooth and fine
or pretend that time stands still
I want to rest my soul
here where it can grow without fear
Another line, another year
I’m still standing here
See these marks on my skin?
They are the lyric of my life
Every story I begin
just means another end’s in sight
Only lovers understand
Skin just covers who I am
CHORUS
See these bruises, see these scars?
Hieroglyphs that tell the tale
You can read them in the dark
through your fingertips, like Braille
And I would not trade a line
Make it smooth and fine
or pretend that time stands still
I plan to rest my soul
here where it can grow without fear
Another line, another year
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here
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[@vnatick]

Ms Ian! You inspired us in the late 60s and your work infused my own! Thank you for KEEP WRITING, KEEP SINGING!

[@slant6mind59]

Thank you Janis for celebrating aging. At 17 I so much appreciated listening to your songs! At 63 I celebrate that we are still Standing Here!

[@virginiaframpton8767]

So very telling of how gentle we become to ourselves as we age and how our journeys have made us who we are today. We are so very fortunate to have memories. Thank you Janis. Love this song.

[@RickGrimes007]

Janis ,i used to write you fan mail at 14-15 yrs old my family would sing songs my Wonderful Mother and Father would write Spiritual songs.I adored and sang At Seventeen Morning Noon and night😊At 61 I still enjoy your beautiful none changing voice. I sang in many contest over the years,karaoke contest but never got that break. Singing, keeps our minds,heart soul young it reaches everyone music is life! Thank you Janis for inspiring me to play guitar, listen and sing!

[@RevHengSure]

This song could become a Boomer anthem; triumphant and joyful. Janis’s song-writing skills are on display. What a beautiful tune.

[@katht.gileno8823]

Janis Ian, you're a writers writer and an amazing humanitarian. You and your music allowed us to reflect and made the world a better place, thank you for that! Bravo my friend, another fabulous song! 👏🌹👍👍

[@LSDP1954]

Oh thank you so much, Janis! I love this song so much. How it speaks to me at 67. ‘Skin just covers who I am.” You still have a beautiful voice. May it sing on into eternity!

[@nancadamson6506]

God! How I wish I could see you perform in Canada again. You were a 1970s icon and I often miss the genius who penned At 17. I hope younare well and still standing. 🇨🇦🎈

[@RoK101]

How did you know I needed to hear this today? You are always my guru. Even after almost 60 years!

[@prestonbrown5771]

i love Janis singing but her guitar mastery is what i really admire . thank you Janis for all these years of beautiful music played from the soul

[@jeanp.1303]

Yes!… How did you know, Janis? I was just contemplating my life on my back porch. You always have a perfect song… Nameste

[@dmjproductions]

Thank you, Janis. What an inspiration to me . . . a 61-year-old guitar playing grandma!

[@erinmoriarity4775]

This is beautiful. I wish you could sing me to sleep at night. Oh, since I'm here, I want to say I listened to your song Stars for the first time a few weeks back. While listening I felt so pulled in emotionally -- moreso than with any song I've heard in probably 20 years. By the end of the song I was weeping, and I'm not exactly known to be a weeper. Your songwriting ability is of the absolute highest caliber, and, in my opinion, you are and should be as celebrated as one of the great musical geniuses of our time.

[@laurakaufman7299]

You sound sooooooooooo beautiful. I have LOVED your music for more than 6 decades.

[@rolirenato7920]

Thanks , Janis , for all the wonderful hours I / we’ve had back in the 70ies and early 80ies ! So glad to year from you again ! ( I probably got your new video cause cI still listen a lot to your songs … I couldn’t have known otherwise that you still write songs . ) … I’m keen to get to know all your new tunes 😘😘

[@18photo]

Absolutely beautiful! I heard a clip of this on your wonderful interview on NPR radio earlier today, and had to hear the rest. Totally in tears here...and I just ordered your album. I should have called in tell you how much your music has meant to me since the 1970s, but I chickened out. So...Thank you for all your amazing lyrics and music that have touched my soul for so many decades. Peace :)

[@johnkozup9959]

You are still a high caliber song writer. I remembrr hearing "at. 17" the first time back in my youth and you convinced me then of your. I'm still standing convinces me you still have it too. Thanks for all the memories your songs supply me. I wish i could hug you after listening to your latest song. BTW your voice is still as beautiful as ever. Don't stop being you and writing And singing your songs. God bless. Talent

[@leepatrick1959]

お元気そうで嬉しいです ^^

[@stevenvicino8687]

I love everything from Mozart to Metallica and "Night Rains" by this incredible artist is still one of my favorite albums. You are better than gold Janis.

[@ellenbotha7256]

What a lovely voice!

[@bonnie_gail]

thank you ~

[@richardsteiner1729]

Saw her last night in Clearwater, Florida. Her voice is as good now as it was 50 years ago.

[@mindfuloneCOLO]

Thank you, Janis, for another perfect song! I’ve loved you forever. Though I confess I haven’t listened to your music since I was young, I woke up this morning with your song “Stars” playing in my head. I just did a quick youtube and google search for the song title and Nina’s 1976 performance of it was the first thing that came up. I was dismayed to see that the sites that showed up in the google search imply, or even downright claim, the song was written by Nina, and that upsets me so much! (And readers, I am not disparaging Nina in any way - I know she is not to blame.) Anyway, Janis, I’m so glad you’re Still Standing Here! ❤️

[@RICHMOND94114]

One of the best concerts I ever witnessed. San Francisco, 2008.

[@summerleecarlson]

I've loved you since I was a teenager and heard "At Seventeen" come on one of those TV ads for a mixed CD of songs. I immediately went to look you up (on that new things called the "internet" ha) and read through as many lyrics from you and found as many songs as I could. This song just makes me love you even more. ❤❤❤

[@Sainbury]

She still sounds great!

[@susangibbons6531]

Loved her music since I was 17, now 60. Love Janice

[@davidrosen4951]

NY Times article led me to this beautiful and touching song. Thanks Janis! David Rosen (Webatuck days).

[@jmdenison]

still standing and still beautiful with a beautiful voice

[@gregeyler3076]

♥️

[@MignonB1]

Your songs are the stories of our lives, Janis! I have always related to your songs on so many levels. I have some serious health issues I am dealing with, but so far "I'm Still Standing" too! This song is my new "anthem" for when my terminal illness has me feeling way down low and without hope. You give me the courage to keep going when I'm sometimes not sure I really can. Thank you for your inspiration! I'm hoping to be able to see you at your show in Turners Falls, MA in April. Just pre-ordered your "Celebrating Our Years Together" bundle. Looking forward to the release of your album "The Light At The End Of The Line". This song is a true gem!! Thank you for the decades of music you have shared with your fans and audiences around the world. God bless you!

[@dianehayes8385]

Thank you Janis for sharing your great thoughts and experiences with us all these years💗🤗

[@nathanwolfson2966]

It's nice to hear more of an upbeat song from one of our greatest singer-songwriters. Both the music and lyrics remind me of another great (not so famous) artist, David Wilcox.

[@tinalaspina4372]

Ilove her music since was little

[@1701alpha]

Heard this for the first time today on MVY radio on Martha'sVineyard!

[@rodlewis9817]

Beautiful.

[@deirdremccarthy8652]

Thanks Janis, we all here love ya.

[@hollyk7983]

I saw you singing this song on PBS. So beautiful!

[@Anumeraki]

💛

[@joannergreene]

This song touches me deeply. Hats off to @KyraGordon for her show, Loving Janis. Reminded me to tune back in to you~

[@janetbradshaw4119]

Love this so much, thank you.

[@sweetersongs5219]

gorgeous Janice!Thank you!

[@user-vg1we7nx1q]

So beautiful voice💕🙏🏼👏my favorite song..

[@Shadow7444]

Brilliant!

[@MrARichardC]

Thank You

[@MonkeyNutPlugs]

I feel ashamed I never chased up on my love of your song "At Seventeen". I guess I had never presumed you were a song writer... because your voice was so... no, **SO** beautiful in "At 17" I think I almost subconsciously thought you were a beautiful singer some record company had given the song. And then I saw your performance of the song on 'The Old Grey Whistle Test' back along... and I was just mesmerised by the poise in every single line... the audience must have trembled with awe... emotional awe at your truth... so GREAT. Now to get to know your music properly. I've now strummed "At Seventeen" with tje roght chords and OH the genius that befel you in the second line of each verse as it takes a classical key change of chords over the same melody... Ugggh... I bow to that Genius. You are so blessed to be singing and playing... thank you.

[@MonkeyNutPlugs]

Typo!! Ugh

[@daseulyang]

와우 대박. soooooo beautiful. great!

[@BRiTORC]

Hey Janis,just come across you perfoming on the old grey whistle test ....do you remeber it.....you just blew me away such grace,and finesse,cant stop watching you, hope you are well and living the dream. lots of love kev!

[@aurane2556]

♡

[@katharinecybaez2340]

Dear Janis Ian, i as a fervently Loving Joan C. Baez Loving woman, Know your Song 'Jesse'' since decades in Joans Diamonds and Rust Album Version and I saw always and see the Light still. And i got to know it in YourBoths' Version with the Heartcutting images I learned to know it Recently. Dear Janis Ian, The Song I'm still standing is of a Beauty and Bewildering Hopeful courage to Carry On even if Times to come when Standing might Mean I wished I could lean on You, My Joan. You Both are very wise women To have Lived Your Lives in Love, What was the other way Out, of course , i am called to say It is Truth and to Give ourselves to the Love we Love, to give ourLoves to the world, Only Loves can understand, That Love is to be send in the world as from a Lighthouse the steady Stroke (MY STEADY ONE!°°o)), it is the Third One in To the Lighthouse of Virginia Woolf, Such a stroke is your Song (s); i'll stay withJoan and for her and send My feathered Words to fly in the Flow of Love As The Wind flows over the Strange Rivers of Understanding we are in , and Brought them to You who be concerned or feel concerned; Katharina C. Y Baez, en Amour et Espoir forever, KatharinaScharlowski

[@hjd832]

She still has a good voice, but for me, even though this is a positive song, she’s too close to the bone & downbeat for me to listen to much…

[@d.c.sessions2243]

Funny how we all react differently. I'm in a hospital room in the lead-up to a bone marrow transplant, and it struck me as uplifting without being saccharine. I'll make it or I won't but it's been a good ride.

[@angiedragan3863]

@@d.c.sessions2243 Hope you're doing okay and the transplant was successful. Big hugs!

[@angiedragan3863]

I can understand that. Some of her songs really do cut to the bone. And you have to be ready for that "pleasure-pain" experience that a well-crafted song can evoke...lol... I laugh because I understand that feeling. :)

[@lisaschreihart1464]

❤️