《The Portrait》歌词

[00:00:00] amanda mcbroom-the portrait

[00:00:11] there's a picture in a silver frame hanging dusty on my wall.

[00:00:22] and two people with their eyes the same holding daisies, i recall.

[00:00:32] and the baby in the sailor dress and the pigtails - that was me.

[00:00:42] and the other was my mother on our easter by the sea.

[00:00:54] people tell me that i'm just like her and i wonder what they see.

[00:01:05] she was lady, lace and cameo, not the gypsy, that is me.

[00:01:15] she spent her evenings making poetry, i spend my nights making time.

[00:01:25] and i wonder, am i living partly her dreams, partly mine.

[00:01:33] what would she think of the too many men

[00:01:39] the lies i get lost in, again and again

[00:01:44] the tears in the morning, the booze and the blues in the night.

[00:01:57] it's been years now since i've seen her face, heard her footsteps on the stair,

[00:02:09] but just lately in my dreams at night,

[00:02:14] i will call her and she's there

[00:02:19] looking pretty like she used to before time and tears tore her apart.and she tells me that she loves me then she leaves me in the dark.

[00:02:38] mama don't leave me, mama don't go.

[00:02:43] you know the answers to all i don't know.

[00:02:48] my dreams come up empty and my hearts lying dead on the floor.

[00:02:56] mama don't leave me, mama please stay.

[00:03:00] mama i need you to show me the way.

[00:03:04] i'm lost and i'm lonely and i can't find my way anymore.

[00:03:16] mama -- mama