And the writer said, "I wish you'd known me
when I still believed in the truth.
Now it's all I have left
along with my debts and lack of youth."
He said: "Take no prisoners.
Tell no lies.
No pretty songs of compromise.
Take no prisoners, tell no lies ..."
—Janis Ian, "Take No Prisoners"
Copyright © 1995 Rude Girl Publishing
Used by kind permission of Janis Ian