Polaroids-Shawn Colvin

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Colvin [00:12.357]Please no more therapy [00:14.959]Mother take care of me [00:17.778]Piece me together with a [00:20.641]Needle and thread [00:23.468]Wrap me in eiderdown [00:26.249]Lace from your wedding gown [00:29.173]Fold me and lay me down [00:31.876]On your bed [00:34.316]Or liken me to a shoe [00:37.635]Blackened and spit shined through [00:40.239]Kicking back home to you [00:43.234]Smiling back home [00:45.886]Singing back home to you [00:48.792]Laughing back home to you [00:51.445]Dragging back home to you [00:57.334]I was so wary then [01:00.043]The ugly American [01:02.695]Thinner than oxygen [01:05.599]Tough as a whore [01:08.402]I said you can lie to me [01:11.104]I own what's inside of me [01:14.770]And nothing surprises me anymore [01:19.441]But forests in Germany [01:22.395]Kids in the Tuileries [01:25.146]Broken down fortresses [01:27.986]In old Italy [01:30.698]And claiming his victory [01:33.563]Shrouded in mystery [01:36.223]He went running away with me [01:42.333]Back in our home New York [01:44.864]Walking these streets forlorn [01:47.685]We all in our uniforms [01:50.591]Black and black [01:53.329]Doing that slouch and jive [01:56.285]The artist must survive [01:58.897]We've got all we need we cried [02:01.769]And we don't look back [02:04.374]Thinking we had it made [02:07.541]Poised for the hit parade [02:10.324]Knee deep in accolades [02:12.816]The conceptual pair [02:14.801]But ever the malcontent [02:18.518]He left without incident [02:21.444]Vanished into thin air [03:12.474]Now I am always amazed [03:14.779]Words can fill up a page [03:17.606]Pages fill up the days [03:20.468]Between him and me [03:23.216]But the vows that we never keep [03:26.036]From bedrooms to business speak [03:29.028]Make me remember how cheap [03:31.933]Words can be [03:34.363]And the letters I wrote you of [03:37.397]Were those of the desperate stuff [03:40.117]Like begging for love in a suicide threat [03:45.389]But I am too young to die [03:48.433]Too old for a lullaby [03:51.200]Too tired for life on the ledge [03:57.057]But I had a dream last night [03:59.662]Of lovers who walked the plank [04:02.525]Out on the edge of time [04:05.388]Amidst ridicule [04:08.238]They laughed as they rocked and reeled [04:11.006]Over the mining fields [04:13.815]Coming to rest on this ship of fools [04:19.480]But he just took polaroids [04:22.698]Of her smile in the light [04:25.507]Of the dawn of the menacing sky [04:30.867]And before they went overbaord [04:33.462]She turned and held up a card [04:36.241]And it said Valentine