Song For Molly-Lucy Kaplansky

[00:00.000] 作词 : Kaplansky, Litvin [00:12.40]Molly's sitting on her bed [00:15.59]It's Sunday afternoon [00:18.79]Radio's playing outside [00:21.27]TV bleeds from the next room [00:24.25]Antiseptic in the air [00:26.90]Nurses laughing down the hall [00:29.88]Crooked feet in crooked shoes [00:33.10]Her wooden cane against the wall [00:36.14]It's Sunday but her Sunday clothes [00:39.14]Are packed away somewhere [00:41.79]She doesn't need them anymore [00:44.82]Nothing to look her best for [00:54.19]I'm thirteen, I'm with with my mother [00:57.37]She doesn't know my name [00:59.86]I remind her I'm Lucy [01:03.19]But she looks at me the same [01:05.38]Like I'm a stranger she should remember [01:09.80]From a place she can't return [01:12.19]We've only just walked in [01:14.97]She says we've stayed too long [01:17.97]Too proud to be remembered [01:20.94]As a mother without a home [01:31.87]Oh, it's time to go [01:37.86]Oh, it's time to go [01:45.62]It's a dirty trick this growing old [01:59.83]We walk the halls anyway [02:02.92]My mother holds her arm [02:05.98]She's pleading with us to leave [02:08.62]So we walk her to her room [02:11.36]And we drive through the old neighborhood [02:14.42]The grand homes of the South Side [02:17.34]So many are abandoned now [02:20.70]So many lifetimes locked inside [02:23.28]And at the dinner table [02:25.79]It's my parents and me [02:29.28]I sneak looks at the two of them [02:32.40]To see what they need from me [02:36.56]And later she calls me over [02:39.82]Where she sits alone [02:42.57]She's polishing a silver ring [02:45.60]I've never seen before [02:50.13]She says this was Molly's [02:53.47]It was her mother's ring [02:56.58]I'm keeping it for you [02:59.67]As she kept it for me [03:10.28]Oh, it's time to go [03:16.38]Oh, it's time to go [03:24.30]It's a dirty trick this growing old [03:38.26]I'm told Molly was so proud to have [03:41.68]Another baby girl [03:44.61]Her only granddaughter [03:47.86]But I don't remember [03:51.92]This is what I remember [03:58.54]This is what I remember