To Build a Home-Kelli O'Hara/Bridges Company

[ti:To Build A Home (《廊桥遗梦》电影插曲)] [ar:Kelli O'Hara/Bridges Company] [al:The Bridges of Madison County (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.16]To Build a Home - Kelli O'Hara/Bridges Company [00:05.91]Written by：Jason Robert Brown [00:07.92] [00:22.87]There's a boat [00:25.00]That leaves from Napoli [00:27.61] [00:28.56]Every Thursday in the morning [00:32.25] [00:32.77]And a nervous bride can share a bed [00:37.68]With her soldier from the States [00:41.63] [00:43.38]For a week [00:44.74]The ocean carries them [00:47.80]Over lost and churning water [00:52.04]And they land in New York Harbor [00:56.89]Then to Pennsylvania Station [01:01.27]Where they board a train [01:04.07]That slices like a scythe [01:07.53]Through the fields of America [01:14.66] [01:23.87]This is Albany [01:25.42] [01:26.02]This is Buffalo [01:27.39] [01:27.96]This is Cleveland [01:29.60] [01:30.18]This is South bend [01:32.02] [01:33.59]This is Chicago [01:36.45]This is Osceola Station [01:40.35] [01:40.89]Where a truck will take them [01:43.69]Deeper into Iowa [01:49.43]To Winterset [01:53.21]And three hundred Acres [01:56.69] [01:57.22]Waiting to be tamed [02:01.75] [02:09.56]And blade of grass by blade of grass [02:15.28]And ear of corn by ear of corn [02:20.11]And bale of Hay by day by day [02:24.77]They build themselves a home [02:28.62]And day by day and year by year [02:33.17]From boy to man from calf to steer [02:37.12]What's lost from there may not grow here [02:41.10]But comes the sun [02:45.13]Look what they've done [02:48.84]They've built themselves a home [02:54.77] [02:58.60]At Twenty one a girl begins [03:02.55]To grasp the world and how it spins [03:06.63]She grabs a box of safety pins [03:10.27]And builds herself a home [03:14.08]And home is safe and home is fair [03:17.84]The porch the bath the kitchen chair [03:21.70]The sharp and unfamiliar air [03:25.34]That blow by blow [03:29.27]She comes to know [03:32.84]To build herself a home [03:39.82]With a son [03:43.29]And a daughter [03:47.10]And a million miles between [03:51.01]The fires she used to set [03:54.27]The hearts she used to break [03:57.81]The lies she used to tell [04:01.07]And the woman she grew up [04:05.11]To be [04:06.02]Aaah [04:12.20]Aaah [04:19.03]Aaah [04:25.56]Aaah [04:32.24]Aaah [04:38.72]Aaah [04:48.40]I learn to speak I learn to sew [04:51.57]I learn to let the longing go [04:54.85]The tractor wheel the food of snow [04:58.27]I build myself a home [05:01.77]I change my words I change my name [05:05.27]The fields go dry the horse goes lame [05:08.73]The County fair the football game [05:12.18]For eighteen years [05:15.72]It stays the same [05:18.90]For eighteen years [05:22.23]I'm proud I came [05:25.92]And built myself a home