The life and experience of a songwriter like Janis Ian is forever woven into the fabric of her songs, and Janis has proven time and time again that what she feels and thinks and writes touches the hearts of those who listen.

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Select a song from this list 42nd St. Psycho Blues A Change Must Come A Family With You A Happy Kind of Sad A Love Like That After the Children Are Gone After the Prince was Gone After the Rain After the Thrill is Gone Aftertones Aint He Just Like Me Aintcha Cantcha Wontcha All My Fathers All Roads (Lead You Home) All Roads to the River All The Way Home All Those Promises Amsterdam And I Did, Ma Another Letter Applause Applause Arms Around My Life As Far as Lonely Goes A Song For All The Seasons OF Your Mind At Forty At Seventeen A Thousand Years Baby's Blue Bad Dreams Bahisma Barbies Gone Bad Bayonne Blues Beat of a Silent Heart Belle of the Blues Berlin Between the Lines Big Alibi Bigger than Real Billie's Bones Black Crow Flying Black & White Blood Red Heart of Stone Blood-Red Rose Body Slave Bold Centurion Boots Like Emmy Lou's Born Into the Light Boss Don't Shoot No Dice Boy I Really Tied One On Brand New Dress Breaking Silence Breeze on Through Bridge, The Bright Lights and Promises Caleb Brown Call Long Distance Calling Your Name Candlelight Cant Do Anything Right Cant Win for Losing You Can You Reach Me Carry Me Carry On, Carry On Childhood Hero Cold Seashore Colorblind Come On, The Coming Up For Air Concubine Cosmopolitan Girl Counting Up the Years Cowboy Cafe, The Crocodile Song, The Dance With Me Dancing With the Shadows Danger Danger Dangerous Times Dangerous Heart Davy Day By Day Days Like These Dead Men Walking Dear Billy Deep River Blues Do Wrong, Do Right Do You Wanna Dance Don't Cry Old Man Don't Leave Tonight Don't Rush the River Don't Wake the Wind Down & Away Down In Flames Drowning Man, The Easy Street Emmanuel Empty Evening Star Every Day Every Love Everybody Knows Everything Was Beautiful Finest Summer First Time's Never Easy Fly Too High Folk Is The New Black Forever Blue Forever Young Forever Yours Friends Again From Me To You Galveston Georgia Get Ready To Roll Getting Over You god and the fbi Going For the Gold Got To Get Up Great Divide, The Guess You Had To Be There Hair of Spun Gold Halfway In Love Hard Times In the Promised Land Have Mercy, Love Haven't I Got Eyes Headlight Taillight Heart Has A Mind of Its Own Heart of a City Heart Of The Land, The Heart of Yesterday Heart Skip Too Many Beats Hearts Take Time Heaven Knows Hello Jerry Here Comes the Night Here In the City Here In Spain High Water His Hands Hit You With the Guilt Hold On To the Sky Holes HollyTree, The Home Is The Heart Honey D'ya Think? Honor Them All Hopper Painting Hot Streets Hotels and One-Night Stands House Without A Heart How Can You Believe In Love How Long Hunger Hymn I Ain't Missing You At All I Believe I'm Myself Again I Can't Forget I Could Be With You Tonight I Could Have Been With You I Hear You Sing Again I Just Want to Make Love Again I Know the Feeling I Long For You I Love You Best I Need To Live Alone Again I Never Dared To Speak With Her I Recognize Your Heart I Remember Yesterday I Want To Make You Love Me I Want You Tonight I Would LikeTo Dance If We Had Wings I Hear You Sing Again I'll Cry Tonight I'll See You Sometime I'll Give You a Stone If You Throw It In Black and White In My Grandmother's Arms Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind In the Hanging In the Winter Ivy and the Oak Jackie Skates Jenny Jesse Jolene Joy Just A Girl Just Call Me Lonely Keep Me In the Dark Knock Me Out La Cienega Boulevard La Premiere Fois Last Comeback, The Last Great Place, The Last Train, The Lay Low Less Than Lovers Let Love Sleep Tonight Let Me Be Lonely Let Me Love Again Tonight Let Me Love Again Tonight Let's Do Breakfast Let It Run Free Life Is Never Wrong Light A Light Like A Rose Like Never Before Living From Day To Day Living In A Bad Dream Lone Ranger Days Lonely One Love Gets In the Way Love Is A Borderline Love Is Blind Love Longing To Fly Love We Leave, The Love Will Be Enough Lover Be Kindly Lover's Lullaby Love You More Than Yesterday Lucky Make A Man Of You Make Hay While The Sun Shines Make the Most Of Love Man Behind the Curtain, The Man You Are In Me, The Maria Marion Amidst the Roses Married In London Mary's Eyes Married In London (With Chords) Matthew Maybe Now You'll Grow Up Maybe Tonight Maybe You Can Grow Up Mechanical Telephone Me Finally Free Memories Memory of Your Heart, The Memphis Might As Well Talk to the Moon Might As Well Be Monday Miracle Row Missing You Mission, The Mockingbird Monkey On A Chain Month Of May Moonshine Whiskey Morning Alone After Blues Mother Sing Again Murdering Stravinsky My Autobiography My Mama's House My Tennessee Hills Nature's At Peace Needle In A Haystack Nervous Never Laid A Hand On Your Heart New Christ Cardiac Hero New York In the Springtime Night Rains Nightmare Mountain No One Else Like You No Smoke Without Fire Nobody Love Me Like You Do Nobody Loves A Loser Not An Average Man Not Even Mine Nothing But A Man Now Old Fashioned Dreams Old Man's Shoes, The Old People, The Old Photographs On the Dark Side Of Town On the Edge On the Other Side On the Way To Me One In A Million One Mississippi Only For Him Ooo Honey Orbiting Jupiter Oriental Other Side of the Sun, The Over the Moon Beyond the Stars Page Nine Paris In Your Eyes Party Lights Passion Play Photographs Play Like A Girl Portrait of the Artist Portrait of the Artist As.. Pro-Girl Queen Merka and Me Rate My Music 1-2-3 Ready For the War Restless Eyes Ride Me Like A Wave Roses For the Damned Roses Ruby Save Somebody Searching for America Shadow of Doubt She Must Be Beautiful Shadow Shadows On The Wind Shady Acres She Must Be Beautiful She's Alone Tonight She's Made Of Porcelain Silence Is the Only Sound Silly Habits Slow Dance Romance Sniper of the Heart So Afraid Society'sChild Solitaire Some People Some People's Lives Standing in the Shadows of Love Stars Station Still Waiting For Love Stolen Fire Streetlife Serenaders Sugar Mountain Sunlight, The Sunflakes Fall, Snowrays Call Sunset of Your Life Sweet Sympathy Take Me Walking In the Rain Take No Prisoners Take To the Sky Tattoo Tea & Sympathy Tempted Tenderness Thank You Thankyous That Grand Illusion The Tangles of my Mind This House This Must Be Wrong This Night This Old Town This Time Of Year This Train Don't Carry No Gamblers This Train Still Runs Through the Years Time Flies Time Is On My Side Tonight Will Last Forever Trigger Happy Love Tune That In Uncle Wonderful Under the Covers Unwinding Waiting for the Millenium Walking On Sacred Ground Watercolors Way Of The Land We Endure Weary Lady Welcome To Acousticville When Angels Cry What About the Love Goodbye To Morning What Do You Think of the Dead When I Was A Child When Angels Cry When He Was Here When I Lay Down When the Party's Over When The Silence Falls When You Love Someone Wherever Good Dreams Go Why Can't You & I Will You Dance Wings Over Water Without You You Are Love (Toujour Gai Mon Cher) You Don't Know My Heart You're Too Late You've Got Me On A String Younger Generation Blues

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