Someday Janet
Someday Janet
Someday Janet, there will be room for us to live
Then we can spread our wings and fly.
Someday after the winds of change have blown across
The small-minded people, we'll love.
In twenty years, or so they say,
The world will see how blind it's been,
And then, my love, we'll fly away
To lands we've dreamed, but never seen.
And then, my love, we'll share the hope
We've had to hide from them 'til then.
Someday Janet, there will be room for us to live
Then we can spread our wings and fly.
Someday after the winds of change have blown across
The small-minded people, we'll love.
In twenty years, or so they say,
The world will see how blind it's been,
And then, my love, we'll fly away
To lands we've dreamed, but never seen.
And then, my love, we'll share the hope
We've had to hide from them 'til then.
I composed this song when I was 16 years old for my girlfriend, Janet Mercer. She was 15 years old. The year was 1972 and we lived in an annex of Keesler Air Force base housing in Biloxi, Mississippi. Janet had flaming red hair, lots of freckles, wonderful dimples, and dark brown pools of eyes. She looked like a poster child for an advertisement to travel to Ireland. I don't look like that. We were a couple that couldn't have looked more different than each other. Yet, there we were, in love, in that place and at that time.
Two kids in their teens, having their first serious relationship, always confront the normal difficulties of awkwardness and angst. But added to that was a keen awareness Janet and I had that we needed to be careful. We knew that our love could be dangerous to us. We were quickly made aware that, in spite of our ease with each other, there existed outside our little enclave of government housing a society of many people who felt perfectly justified in demonstrating how much they hated seeing us together.
The song I wrote expresses both the hope I had for our relationship, and an adult-level realization of how serious the situations were that we sometimes found ourselves in. The words: "In twenty years, or so they say, the world will see how blind it's been." and "We'll share the hope we've had to hide from them 'til then" demonstrate how aware I was of how long it might be before our world was ready for us.
Two kids in their teens, having their first serious relationship, always confront the normal difficulties of awkwardness and angst. But added to that was a keen awareness Janet and I had that we needed to be careful. We knew that our love could be dangerous to us. We were quickly made aware that, in spite of our ease with each other, there existed outside our little enclave of government housing a society of many people who felt perfectly justified in demonstrating how much they hated seeing us together.
The song I wrote expresses both the hope I had for our relationship, and an adult-level realization of how serious the situations were that we sometimes found ourselves in. The words: "In twenty years, or so they say, the world will see how blind it's been." and "We'll share the hope we've had to hide from them 'til then" demonstrate how aware I was of how long it might be before our world was ready for us.
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