《Story Of A Life(LP Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Story Of A Life (LP Version) - Harry Chapin

[00:00:05] Written by：Harry Chapi/Howard/Ron Albert/Stephen Chapin/Mike Lewis

[00:00:15] I can see myself

[00:00:16] It's golden sunrise

[00:00:18] Young boy

[00:00:19] Open up your eyes

[00:00:20] It's supposed to be your day

[00:00:25] Now off you go

[00:00:26] Horizon bound

[00:00:28] And you won't stop until you've found

[00:00:30] Your own kind of way

[00:00:35] And the wind will whip your tousled hair

[00:00:38] The sun the rain the sweet despair

[00:00:41] Great tales of love and strife

[00:00:46] And somewhere on your path to glory

[00:00:48] You will write your story

[00:00:51] Of a life

[00:00:56] And all the towns that you walk through

[00:00:58] And all the people that you talk to

[00:01:01] Sing you their songs

[00:01:06] And there are times you change your stride

[00:01:09] There are times you can't decide

[00:01:12] Still you go on

[00:01:16] And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes

[00:01:19] And share the secrets of the moon

[00:01:21] So soon you find a wife

[00:01:27] And though she sees your dreams go poorly

[00:01:29] Still she joins your story of a life

[00:01:47] So you settle down

[00:01:48] And the children come

[00:01:50] And you find a place

[00:01:51] That you come from

[00:01:53] Your wandering is done

[00:01:58] And all your dreams of open spaces

[00:02:00] You find in your children's faces

[00:02:03] One by one

[00:02:08] And all the trips you know you missed

[00:02:10] And all the lips you never kissed

[00:02:13] Cut through you

[00:02:15] Like a knife

[00:02:18] And now you see stretched out before thee

[00:02:21] Just another story of a life

[00:02:27] So what you do now

[00:02:30] When she looks at you now

[00:02:32] You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell

[00:02:36] You tell them to her now

[00:02:40] And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang

[00:02:43] You sing 'em to her now

[00:02:47] But it don't matter anyhow

[00:02:50] 'Cause she knows by now

[00:03:03] So every chance you take don't mean a thing

[00:03:06] What variations can you bring

[00:03:09] To this shopworn melody

[00:03:13] And every year goes by like a tollin' bell

[00:03:16] It's battered merchandise you sell

[00:03:19] Not well she can see

[00:03:23] And though she's heard it all a thousand times

[00:03:27] Couched in your attempted rhymes

[00:03:29] She'll march to your drum and fife

[00:03:34] But the question echoes up before me

[00:03:37] Where's the magic story of a life

[00:03:45] Story of a life

[00:03:50] Story

[00:03:55] Story of a life

[00:04:00] Story

[00:04:05] Now sometimes words can serve me well

[00:04:08] Sometimes words can go to hell

[00:04:11] For all that they do

[00:04:16] And for every dream that took me high

[00:04:18] There's been a dream that's passed me by

[00:04:21] I know it's so true

[00:04:25] And I can see it clear out to the end

[00:04:29] And I'll whisper to her now again

[00:04:32] Because she shared my life

[00:04:36] For more than all the ghosts of glory

[00:04:39] She makes up the story

[00:04:43] She's the only story

[00:04:48] Of my life