Looking Forward to the Past-Tommy Emmanuel/Rodney Crowell

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Rodney Crowell [00:00.285]Looking Forward to the Past -Tommy Emmanuel/Rodney Crowell [00:01.113]Written by：Rodney Crowell [00:09.425]There's a girl I use to know about three broken hearts ago [00:14.483]I married her and left her in the dark [00:19.246]Vicksburg has her now and I'm headed there somehow [00:23.340]For to see if I can kindle that old spark [00:28.779]She had that Louisiana sizzle [00:33.444]She had that sleepy southern sass [00:38.39]I split the blanket down the middle [00:42.705]Since then it's all been downhill fast [00:47.427]I'm looking forward to the past [00:51.385]I'm a Mississippi man and a Conway Twitty [00:56.117]And I haven't heard a song I like in years [01:00.704]I drive a po boy truck [01:02.761]And I make an honest buck [01:05.143]And I'll be ready when my savor reappears [01:10.722]If you want to think I'm dumb and lazy [01:15.414]Judge me entirely without class [01:20.92]But if you knew how momma raised me [01:24.718]You'd know it's you that comes off crass [01:29.392]I'm looking forward to the past [01:33.912]He who lives and learns can renegotiate the terms [01:37.915]On a freakin frackin future full of carbon copy crap [01:43.41]The stakes are through the roof but there's very little proof [01:47.167]We can find fresh food and water somewhere out there off the map [02:36.435]Well I cut my teeth on hurt [02:38.420]And I've slung my share of dirt [02:40.873]And I blame myself for everything gone wrong [02:45.650]But what's done is done they say [02:47.757]And if there's hell we have to pay [02:49.774]I might admit I must have known it all along [02:55.470]I don't know two nickels from a quarter [03:00.130]I don't know my shirt tail from my eyes [03:04.865]This modern worlds so out of order [03:09.454]I don't know just how long it can last [03:14.124]But I'm looking forward to the past [03:18.901]I'm looking forward to the past