《Ideas Are Like Stars(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Ideas Are Like Stars - Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:00:01] Today Joseph is sitting alone

[00:00:05] With occassional nods to the waitress

[00:00:10] She tops off his cup while she's snapping her gum

[00:00:15] Making her rounds on the lunch shift

[00:00:20] And counting out coins he leaves them arranged

[00:00:25] In neat lines and circles and arcs

[00:00:30] She just stares at the tip that spells out her name

[00:00:36] Ideas are like stars

[00:00:50] And yesterday pedalling down 4th avenue

[00:00:55] Between the stalls and the bookshops

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

[00:01:05] Cradled a curio storefront

[00:01:10] And inside the air was thick with the past

[00:01:15] As the dust settled onto his heart

[00:01:20] And here for a moment is every place in the world

[00:01:26] Ideas are like stars

[00:01:30] They fall from the sky they run round your head

[00:01:35] They litter your sleep as they beckon

[00:01:40] They'd teach you to fly without wires or thread

[00:01:45] They promise if only you'd let them

[00:01:50] For the language of longing never had words

[00:01:55] So how did you speak from your heart

[00:02:01] Yet here is a box that swears it has heard that

[00:02:06] Ideas are like stars

[00:02:47] Tonight Joseph stood out in the yard

[00:02:52] As Debussy played from the kitchen

[00:02:57] His celestial companions 'til morning's first light

[00:03:02] Shone overhead and he listened

[00:03:07] And who was that shadow there by the gate

[00:03:12] Who was that there standing guard

[00:03:17] It was only loneliness and lonliness waits

[00:03:24] Ideas are like stars

[00:03:28] Ideas are like stars