《Ideas Are Like Stars》歌词

[00:00:00] Ideas Are Like Stars - Mary Chapin Carpenter (玛丽翠萍·卡本特)

[00:00:05] Today Joseph is sitting alone

[00:00:09] With occasional nods to the waitress

[00:00:14] She tops off his cup while she's snapping her gum

[00:00:20] Making her rounds on the lunch shift

[00:00:24] Counting out coins he leaves them arranged

[00:00:30] In neat lines and circles and arcs

[00:00:34] She just stares at the tip that spells out her name

[00:00:40] And ideas are like stars

[00:00:54] And yesterday pedaling down 4th Avenue

[00:01:00] Between the stalls and the bookshops

[00:01:04] The sepia tones of a lost afternoon

[00:01:10] Cradled a curio storefront

[00:01:14] And inside the air was thick with the past

[00:01:19] As the dust settled onto his heart

[00:01:24] And here for a moment is every place in the world

[00:01:30] And ideas are like stars

[00:01:34] They fall from the sky they run round your head

[00:01:40] They litter your sleep as they beckon

[00:01:44] They'd teach you to fly without wires or thread

[00:01:50] They promise if only you'd let them

[00:01:54] For the language of longing never had words

[00:01:59] So how did you speak from your heart

[00:02:04] Yet here is a box that swears it has heard

[00:02:10] That ideas are like stars

[00:02:51] Tonight Joseph stood out in the yard

[00:02:56] As Debussy played from the kitchen

[00:03:00] Celestial companions 'til mornings first lark

[00:03:06] Shone overhead and he listened

[00:03:10] And who was that shadow there by the gate

[00:03:16] Who was that there standing guard

[00:03:21] It was only loneliness and loneliness waits

[00:03:26] And ideas are like stars ideas are like stars