Mortal City-Dar Williams

[00:00.000] 作词 : Williams [00:00.341]She never should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City [00:05.999]The cold comes though evey crack she puts her hand up to [00:10.663]The radiator's broken, so she has to use electric heat. [00:15.865]And tonight was the first date with the brother of the guy she worked next to [00:21.330]He lived a couple streets awa [00:23.396]He listened, he had things to say [00:25.820]She asked him up for dinner sometime [00:28.695]Sometime was tonight [00:36.102]The radio gave updates on the ice storm while she made the dinner [00:41.503]They said, from all the talk, you shouldn't drive or even walk [00:46.224]And this just in -- We're asking everyone to turn off their power [00:53.714]They need it at the hostpital. [01:00.857]She ran around pulling plugs, then she called him up [01:05.840]Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said that he would brave the streets [01:10.873]She met him at the door with a blanket and a candle [01:15.145]Saying, I heard it on the radio, I had to turn my power off. [01:25.266]He said you're not the only one, the streets were dark tonight, [01:30.111]It was like another century [01:32.253]With dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy trees and the clouds and a covered moon. [01:41.985]She said what kind of people make a city [01:45.921]Where you can't see the sky and you can't feel the ground? [01:50.695]I tell you something, I have this feeling that this city's dying [01:55.767]He said, it's not dying it's the people who are dying [01:59.863]She said, yes yes I think the people are dying and nobody cares. [02:11.080]We had all this technology our dreams were bold and vague [02:15.505]And then one city got bad planners, one city got the plague. [02:34.465]He asked why did you move here? She said, for the job [02:40.732]For the job and I've been so lonely here, so lonely [02:47.321]There's no one I can talk to, you know I don't even know your brother. [02:59.371]He smiled and said, sometimes at night I walk out by the river [03:04.481]The city's one big town, the water turns it upside down [03:09.397]people found this city because they love other people [03:13.851]They want their secretaries, they want their power lunches. [03:25.941]And think about tonight, I heard the same newscast you did [03:31.160]I unplugged everything, I looked out the window [03:35.208]And I think the city heard, I watched as one by one the lights went off [03:41.885]So they could give their power to the hospital [03:52.865]They ate in silence while she thought this over, [03:57.739]They sat together in a dark room in the Mortal City [04:02.384]Shifting in their blankets so they wouldn't get spaghetti on them. [04:12.966]Then came the awkward moment after dinner, what to do, [04:18.141]The ice was still falling, the streets were still dangerous [04:22.574]The cabs were not running and this neighborhood was not the greatest. [04:28.459]They both looked at the space where a couch would've been [04:33.322]She felt her stomach sink, she felt like she could hardly think [04:42.301]She said, I never should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City [04:48.494]The cold comes through eve crack I put my hand up to [04:52.955]The radiator doesn't work, I have to use electric heat. [04:59.072]That settled it, they would both sleep in her bed [05:02.590]It was a matter of survival. [05:08.029]She brought out teeshirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats [05:15.294]If there was ever any thought of what would happen in that bed tonight [05:21.394]There wa no question now [05:23.796]They could barely move [05:25.564]They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting for another season. [05:36.474]They lay in bed, they listened to the pelting ice [05:41.747]He said my brother's not a bad guy, he's just quiet [05:47.068]I wished you liked this city [05:50.682]She said, maybe I do. [05:56.707]I think I have a special kind of hearing tonight [06:01.897]I hear the neighbors upstairs [06:04.333]I hear my heart beating [06:07.405]I hear one thousand hearts beating at the hospital [06:22.179]And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting [06:35.018]Saying that's my love in the white gown, [06:51.314]We are not lost in the Mortal City [06:56.208]We are not lost in the Mortal City [07:10.074]