Burning Herself-Harry Chapin

[ti:Burning Herself (LP Version)] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Sniper And Other Love Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Burning Herself (燃烧她自己) - Harry Chapin [00:13.05]She was crazy [00:13.90] [00:14.60]She was beautiful [00:15.79] [00:16.60]I guess she had to be [00:19.19] [00:20.05]And I was angry [00:21.12] [00:23.07]You were blind [00:24.23]Because I could not see [00:26.60] [00:28.19]Except for what her cigarettes [00:30.46] [00:31.05]Had done to her skin [00:33.84] [00:34.88]I should have known the outside world [00:38.53]Would reveal what was within [00:40.97] [00:43.60]But she was burning herself [00:45.43]And her hair was filled with ashes [00:47.72] [00:49.00]She was burning herself [00:50.14] [00:50.82]And her life became a flame [00:53.41] [00:54.29]She was burning herself [00:55.46] [00:56.11]And the flame became her passion [00:58.57] [00:59.66]She was burning herself [01:00.90] [01:01.46]And her passion her passion was her pain [01:09.17] [01:15.50]She was trusting [01:16.50] [01:17.54]You could have saved her too [01:19.28]All hope had passed for her [01:21.50] [01:22.49]And I was lusting [01:23.65] [01:24.54]And she gave to you [01:25.70] [01:26.37]That's all I asked for her [01:28.54] [01:29.88]The marks upon her body [01:32.15] [01:32.71]And the marks upon her mind [01:35.50] [01:36.53]I knew I could have erased them [01:39.95]If I'd only taken the time [01:43.30] [01:45.62]But she was burning herself [01:47.54]And her hair was filled with ashes [01:49.87] [01:51.00]She was burning herself [01:52.12] [01:52.88]And her life became a flame [01:55.31] [01:56.39]She was burning herself [01:57.51] [01:58.19]And the flame became her passion [02:00.56] [02:01.54]She was burning herself [02:02.55] [02:03.49]And her passion her passion was her pain [02:11.10] [02:18.63]I never saw her do it [02:20.99] [02:21.73]I only saw the scars [02:23.23] [02:24.99]I never could imagine [02:26.63] [02:27.69]What could make her go that far [02:30.48] [02:32.52]I wondered was she driven [02:35.39]By a desperate need to feel [02:38.14] [02:39.26]To find out she was really living [02:42.39]To discover that her life was real [02:44.76] [02:46.31]Or was it that the pain [02:48.04] [02:49.07]Slicing through her like a knife [02:51.59] [02:52.90]Was easier to take [02:55.33] [02:55.87]Than the emptiness of life [03:00.09]Had a strange sense of drama [03:02.34] [03:03.54]Caught her inside a role [03:05.83] [03:06.80]Or was she trying to cauterize [03:09.37] [03:10.71]The changes on her sole [03:12.68] [03:13.80]I don't know I don't know [03:15.43]I don't know her passion was her pain