Stones In The Road (Album Version)-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:00.000] 作词 : Carpenter [00:30.57]When we were young we pledged allegiance [00:33.45] [00:34.26]Every morning of our lives [00:36.94] [00:37.82]The classroom rang with children's voices [00:41.63]Under teacher's watchful eye [00:43.95] [00:45.07]We learned about the world around us [00:48.38] [00:48.95]At our desks and at dinnertime [00:51.63] [00:52.45]Reminded of the starving children [00:55.57] [00:56.13]We cleaned our plates with guilty minds [00:59.01] [01:00.26]And the stones in the road shone like diamonds in the dust [01:06.26] [01:07.19]And then a voice called to us to make our way back home [01:13.57] [01:14.69]When I was ten [01:16.01]My father held me on his shoulders above the crowd [01:21.13] [01:22.00]To see a train draped in mourning [01:24.82] [01:25.88]Pass slowly through our town [01:28.32] [01:29.38]His widow kneeled with all their children [01:32.55] [01:33.18]At the sacred burial ground [01:35.81] [01:36.74]And the TV glowed that long hot summer [01:39.93] [01:40.61]With all the cities burning down [01:43.17] [01:44.62]And the stones in the road [01:46.56] [01:47.55]Flew out beneath our bicycle tires [01:50.61] [01:51.49]Worlds removed from all those fires [01:54.99]As we raced each other home [01:58.32] [02:27.26]And now we drink our coffee on the run [02:30.32] [02:31.14]We climb that ladder rung by rung [02:34.75]We are the daughters and the sons [02:37.82] [02:38.50]And here's the line that's missing [02:41.31] [02:44.44]The starving children have been replaced [02:47.63] [02:48.19]By souls out on the street [02:50.38] [02:51.38]We give a dollar when we pass [02:54.56] [02:55.24]And hope our eyes don't meet [02:57.88] [02:59.19]We pencil in we cancel out we crave the corner suite [03:05.06] [03:06.12]We kiss your ass we make you hold we doctor the receipt [03:11.87] [03:14.44]And the stones in the road fly out from beneath our wheels [03:20.57] [03:21.28]Another day another deal before we get back home [03:26.81] [03:28.58]And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came [03:35.02] [03:35.89]A thousand points of light or shame baby I don't know [03:42.40] [04:01.10]La la la la la la