《Starlings-Album Version》歌词

[00:00:03] Starlings - Randy Stonehill

[00:00:35] Em

[00:00:37] Riding with my family

[00:00:38] In the '58 Buick

[00:00:42] I can still recall how we'd drive

[00:00:46] Through the valley to

[00:00:47] My grandmother's house every

[00:00:50] Summer vacation when

[00:00:52] I was small

[00:00:54] And I'd gaze out the window

[00:00:57] At the farms and the orchards

[00:00:59] Counting the telephone

[00:01:01] Poles passing by

[00:01:03] And the sound of our motor

[00:01:05] Would frighten the starlings

[00:01:07] And they'd rise from the fields to fly

[00:01:14] My mother would grumble

[00:01:17] "Those birds are a curse;

[00:01:19] They're a thorn in the farmers' side "

[00:01:24] But I couldn't help feeling sad

[00:01:26] And inspired by their

[00:01:28] Desperate ballet in the sky

[00:01:36] Say a prayer for the starlings

[00:01:40] The hot dry wind beats

[00:01:41] Their ragged wings

[00:01:45] Have a thought for the starlings

[00:01:49] No one ever listens

[00:01:50] To the songs they sing

[00:01:53] Say a prayer for the starlings

[00:01:58] There's no welcome

[00:01:59] For them anywhere

[00:02:03] Leave some crumbs

[00:02:04] For the starlings

[00:02:07] They say that winter

[00:02:08] Will be cold this year

[00:02:28] She was sitting on a curb

[00:02:30] By the 7 Eleven; she asked

[00:02:34] If I had some spare change

[00:02:38] Her skin wore that leathered

[00:02:40] And wind-burned look

[00:02:42] And the light in her blue eyes

[00:02:44] Was wild and strange

[00:02:46] I sat down beside her

[00:02:49] And asked her her name

[00:02:51] She said "Pick one you like;

[00:02:53] I need something to eat "

[00:02:55] And her life made me think

[00:02:57] Of the dead leaves in autumn

[00:03:00] Drifting like ghosts down the street

[00:03:06] Is the life that we celebrate

[00:03:09] Only a dream a lie that

[00:03:12] We serve like a god made of stone

[00:03:15] And our hearts are the hunter

[00:03:18] Birds with no nesting place

[00:03:20] Weary and aching for home

[00:03:28] Say a prayer for the starlings

[00:03:32] The hot dry wind beats

[00:03:34] Their ragged wings

[00:03:37] Have a thought for the starlings

[00:03:41] No one ever listens to

[00:03:42] The songs they sing

[00:03:45] Say a prayer for the starlings

[00:03:50] There's no welcome

[00:03:51] For them anywhere

[00:03:55] Leave some crumbs for the starlings

[00:03:59] They say that winter will

[00:04:00] Be cold this year this year