《Song of the Stoic》歌词

[00:00:00] Song Of The Stoic-Suzanne Vega

[00:00:08] I am a man

[00:00:10] I’ve been working all my days

[00:00:12] This is my accounting

[00:00:14] Of my means and of my ways

[00:00:17] More years are behind me now

[00:00:19] Than years that are ahead

[00:00:21] Looking back I feel

[00:00:23] This is my story to be said.

[00:00:25] I faced my father down

[00:00:27] Inside the hallway of our home

[00:00:30] 18 years of pain

[00:00:31] Upon my body to the bone

[00:00:34] Demons lived inside of him

[00:00:36] They forced him to the act

[00:00:38] The layers of the bruises

[00:00:40] To my body was the fact.

[00:00:43] Ooooh

[00:01:00] I grew and went into the world

[00:01:02] I learned to know it’s code

[00:01:04] Of spoken and unspoken

[00:01:06] And I learned to love the road

[00:01:09] I shoulder every burden like

[00:01:11] A mule with a heavy pack

[00:01:13] Every coin I earn is another

[00:01:15] Knot within my back.

[00:01:18] Ecstasy and pleasure come

[00:01:20] At much too great a cost

[00:01:22] I keep myself upon the earth

[00:01:24] But measure what I’ve lost

[00:01:26] Winged things they brush against me

[00:01:28] Never mine to hold

[00:01:31] I keep my eyes upon the ground

[00:01:33] And carry on as old.

[00:01:35] Oooh

[00:02:10] I met a woman

[00:02:12] She had the gifted touch

[00:02:14] Her hands were wise with healing

[00:02:16] And with wonder and all such

[00:02:19] As the fates would have it

[00:02:21] Each to others we are wed

[00:02:23] We confine ourselves to friendship

[00:02:25] And we stay out of the bed.

[00:02:27] Now I turn around to face

[00:02:29] The specter of my age

[00:02:32] My soul it fights my body

[00:02:33] Like a bird will fight its cage.

[00:02:36] I see that last horizon

[00:02:38] I hope it brings me peace

[00:02:40] I look forward to the day

[00:02:42] At last my body knows release.

[00:02:45] Ooooh

[00:02:54] Ooooh

[00:03:03] Ooooh

[00:03:11] Ooooh

[00:03:21] Ooooh

[00:03:28] Ooooh

[00:03:45] Ooooh