Ian, Janis - The Last Comeback Lyrics
Roll out the red carpet, let me in
Here I am knocking down the door again
Broken dreams - broken lives
In the end, only hope survives
Only hope survives
These are the songs nobody wanted
This is the voice that no one heard
This is the show that no one came to
The lights are down - the stage is black
I'm ready now for the last comeback
I fear the anger and the greed
Shallow as the heart I let you see
Frightened by the hunger and the shame
Selling out a soul for a well-known name
These are the nights no one remembers
These are the stages time forgets
These are the shows that no one came to
The lights are down - the stage is black
I'm ready for the last comeback
It's what I want
It's what I need
It's only make believe
What'cha gonna do when time runs out?
Nobody remembers your name now
It's in the heart - it's in the eyes
But you know the fire never dies
The fire never dies
These are the songs nobody wanted
This is the voice that no one heard
This is the show that no one came to
The lights are down - the stage is black
I'm ready for the last comeback
The lights are down - the stage is black
I'm ready for the last comeback
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Ian, Janis - Welcome To Acousticville
- Ian, Janis - No One Else Like You
- Ian, Janis - Tenderness
- Ian, Janis - Take No Prisoners
- Ian, Janis - Ready For The War
- Ian, Janis - Breaking Silence
- Ian, Janis - Some People's Lives
- Ian, Janis - This House
- Ian, Janis - Through The Years
- Ian, Janis - This Train Still Runs
- Ian, Janis - Walking On Sacred Ground
- Ian, Janis - His Hands
- Ian, Janis - What About The Love
- Ian, Janis - Davy
- Ian, Janis - When The Silence Falls
- Ian, Janis - Hunger
- Ian, Janis - Searching For America
- Ian, Janis - Getting Over You
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Ian, Janis The Last Comeback Comments
Beautifully done well written lyrics - Innocence of being young....
17 here.... :((
Exquisite ,Sad and Profound - still speaks of truth....Janis - to have created this makes your entire existence.....so so beautiful.
I turned 17 yesterday wish me luck y‘all
Lol I just heard this song in The Simpsons
All I need is a bucket of ice cream and a box of Kleenex
My life in a song! #lonergang
The best part of the song is -''it's relatable"
This song can be devastatingly cruel or uplifting depending on what you've gone through and how you dealt with it.
Love this song goog singer BC and grate song Graham w
I remember when I was a teenager and my Great Aunt had just died of cancer and I was just walking depressed out of the hospital with this in my head.
Simpsons
Everyone finds love... I'm a kind of guy who falls in love with flaws... If a person has a flaw, god creates another person who will grow to love that flaw... Everything happens for a reason that's the beauty of this universe....
Why does this sound like the fairy fountain theme from the legend of zelda?
17 begins😭😭😭
Greta brought me here...
Someone asked if anyone would know a song like this here gem .
This is as close as I can get . 😌💫
Randy Crawford -“Almaz” https://youtu.be/n6vlSgaKeG8
She sounds like carol king and Ann Murray
Lately , the number in this song is getting lower. I learnt these at twelve. Twelve years of age was when I realised that nobody will be treated the same if they look different. Never ever ever let somebody tell you what to be. I let it.
Simpsons brought me here, who else is here after seeing Homer searching for his true soul-mate but don't find that while this is playing in the background.
The Simpsons!
if you give love to a person that doesn't like themself , they will treat you like an inferior , for how can you be good if you love someone that isn't .
The Simpsons.
Zits so god
I'm 17. I wrote all my problems at Google search like I always do and I found this song ;)
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth
And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems
At seventeen
A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve"
And the rich relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly
Remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality
And dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received
At seventeen
To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me
We all play the game, and when we dare
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
They call and say, "Come dance with me"
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
At seventeen
Love the song,, thanks for posting. But all the typos in the lyrics are appalling - just FYI eaford214.
people who were bullied at school <3
the pretty poeple,s shit stinks the same as anyone else's
Turned 17 today...I don't want any more regrets...
Anyone listening in 2019❗️
Came from the Simpsons
Here bc of Tablo from Eric's Kpop Daebak podcast
Yes a heartfelt song by all those people {especially the girls) who felt this way back then. God bless u's all. Janis what a gr8 song.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Life is scary for all kids at 17. My 17 yr.old friend 40 yrs ago, who was a spotty Herbert kid like me, bravely crossed the empty dance floor and asked the best looking girl in the room to dance. She ignored him, but then he made the fatal error of asking her friend, who of course, being 17 herself, wouldn't accept in such circumstances, so, he plodded on, asking others who had seen the previous refusals, with the same result, while I inwardly prayed that one would be kind say yes and end his pain. But none did, and he returned to the derision of his "friends". He now is Millionaire and lives in Dubai with his beautiful wife and kids.
I talked to him the other day and he still remembers " the long walk back".
entendue dans les simpsons
beautiful song 😊
Just watched the simpsons, shoutout Chief Wiggum.
After having just attended a Masterclass by Ms. Ian, I revisited these lyrics and am still blown away by the universal message. The vast majority can, in some way, identify with the feeling of being outcast or disenfranchised. Most people spend their lives wanted to be liked, or at least tolerated. We find ourselves wanting or needing to be part of the "in-crowd." There is always a circle in which we just don't fit, or at least, feel we don't. This song may be a little sad, but even if the specifics of the song don't describe you, the general sentiment is something we have all gone through in some way.
All of us with ravaged faces, lacking in social graces... Ooff i felt that..
So sad...terrible! I didn't remenber lyrics.Ididn't hear it for a long time
You're looking at the loneliest woman in Charlotte who's listening to this song and looking back on High School loneliness. No boyfriend, no friends, no advice from anyone. Always living in the shadows.
I too , being very overweight.. knew the Valentine's that never came & whos name was never called when choosing sides for badketball😢 ... it was long ago & far away....
Is anyone here because of" The end of the fucking world "?
i cant be the only one here from end of the fucking world
Im 18 lmao
Fucking Worldddd
this is so true though
Any more come here for the charper of the Simpsons?
The Simpsons
2019 anyone?
TEOTFW❤❤❤
People who listin to this also listin to over the rainbow
SMB 3 water land theme, and Zelda’s Fairy fountain.
Holy...
The end of the fuck*ng world
What a beautiful song
I remember when Janis Ian recorded "Societies Child", and no radio stations would play it. Then suddenly a movement started with the Hippies, and became like a their rebelious Him. The year was 1967. I loved the song and still have the LP. Ar seventeen was another one of her hits. Janis Ian was different and great singer/songwriter. God bless her whereever she may be.
Janis today has been replying to comments on 'Wings of Pegasus Janis Ian' which is an analysis of this song. She has replied to lots of comments.
I was 17 when this song was popular . I'm 60 now. Don't we wish that we knew then what we know now ?
The mysterious voyage of Homer brought me here, thank you the Simpsons.
Esta canción siempre me pone triste y ahora que tengo 17 más aún...
End of the fucking world?
As an ugly kid
It's more like "I learned the truth at 7"
I'm big fan from india plz send nudes here is my numbwr 05582763637
This song and "Eleanor Rigby" two of the saddest songs ever recorded.
I'm 32 and I can still identify with every word of this song!
I’m 28 and this song still triggers shit that went down at Seventeen.
awesome
teotfw❤
Fuck. This. Shit
I'm here because of Conny Vandenbos...
23 y.o. and feel the same
Been looking for this song for ages and finally found it
Tomorrow I will be 18 :D
My life in a song.
.... and for chubby boys at 17 😢
Who's here because of "Absolutely Fabulous the movie"?
Sad songs tend to be the most beautifully sang. My advice to 17yo girls is this: very few indeed at that age are physically ugly, and whether you are or not so, get building your self-confidence in other things and the said "ugly duckling" will become a swan. Don't waste your youth!
Home and this song was playing
I just came
At Seventeen, played by Janis Ian. Janis Ian plays on Mean Girls, they made a musical. The girl who plays Janis Ian in the musical also plays in another musical called Heathers. In that musical she sang a song called “Seventeen”. Just though of this when I say the title
At 17 I was in hospital suffering from terrible eczema on arms face and legs. Can totally relate to this song.
The End of the F***ing World brought me here god bless them uhhh
I remember back then when growing up I was mocked by the so-called popular kids. I just smacked them across the face and that was it. They never mocked me again.
A beautiful song that sums up so much.
Mean girls. Janis Ian
I've sang this in videoke
Every fu**ing time :___
And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Ugh. I can totally relate.
The type of girl you need in the Zombie Apocalypse
I’m here thanks to one of the episodes of Season 5 of The Blacklist. 😁
"I was never Alyssa’s protector. She was mine."
Somber yet beautiful.
Holy shit, I am seriously sobbing now. God damn, this song. These poor girls who identify with this song, you deserve love. You deserve love!
great xxx
I'm 17 today and I still identify with this song
Winter Moon same
I am 70 & I identify w/ this song,,,alone again NATURALLy😨
It’s ok life will get better
the end of f world
Heard it first in TEOTFW then heard it again in The Blacklist. A really sad and beautiful song.
In every group of friends there's always be the unattractive one... like me