Grandmother Song-史逸欣/Alex Wong

[00:02.00]Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song [00:04.00] [00:06.00] [00:08.00] [00:09.47]oh girl you think you got time [00:11.95]you're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:14.49]but one step, two step, you fall behind [00:16.82]so you better have a good plan [00:18.74] [00:19.49]oh girl you think you got time [00:21.44]you're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:23.58]but I'm telling you no matter what you have in mind [00:26.09]you're still gonna need a man [00:27.85] [00:28.67]take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [00:37.71]no one's gonna take care of you [00:39.71]in that world you've got yourself into [00:41.80]all the good boys, oh baby they're in grad school [00:46.38] [00:47.29]oh girl your story's all wrong [00:49.48]your dream'll be a nightmare before too long [00:51.69]turning thirty and still trying to sing your songs [00:53.96]come on who do you think you are [00:55.96] [00:56.72]oh girl it's too heavy a load [00:58.73]your mama and your baba they are worried souls [01:01.01]how you gonna raise a family when you're on the road [01:03.22]with some tattooed boy with a guitar [01:05.23] [01:06.10]take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [01:14.77]this music career isn't real life [01:17.05]it won't see you through to when you're sixty-five [01:19.50]when the tide turns you won't survive [01:22.42]you'll sit on the banks and cry [01:32.99] [01:50.58]oh girl you've never know war [01:54.03]when they come in the night and knock on the door [01:56.12]you can go from the high life to dirty poor [01:58.52]and lose everything you knew [02:00.74] [02:01.48]but the one thing they can't take away from you [02:03.62]is your mind and the education you've been through [02:05.80]o you find a man who understands that too [02:07.96]make sure that he stays true [02:11.52]gives respect where its due [02:13.96]make sure he knows what he's got in you [02:18.11] [02:18.91]because a woman isn't just for cooking meals [02:21.29]scrubbing floors, making babies [02:23.69]a woman's got ambitions same as he does [02:26.17]maybe more [02:27.77] [02:28.40]when the sirens wailed and the bombs fell [02:30.80]we ran from the schoolyard into hell [02:32.89]and what we could've been time will never tell [02:34.92]'cause we never had your chances [02:37.39]the advantages that you've been handed [02:44.28] [03:10.56]take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [03:20.63]