Billie's Bones-Janis Ian

[ti:Billie's Bones] [ar:Janis Ian] [al:Billie's Bones] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.26]Billie's Bones (比利的骨头) - Janis Ian (珍妮斯·艾恩) [00:00.96]Written by：Janis Ian [00:01.42] [00:20.51]Billie's tears fall like dust [00:23.75] [00:25.11]From the air into my eyes [00:28.93] [00:29.78]Seeping in before they rust [00:33.30] [00:34.48]Spilling secrets words can't hide [00:38.14] [00:40.63]I am standing on the bones [00:44.12] [00:45.34]Of a mound too high to climb [00:49.01] [00:51.15]Selling secrets to atone [00:54.74] [00:55.97]For a song that is not mine [01:00.85]Billie's bones are white and bleached [01:05.56]Piled high and hard to reach [01:10.29]And the top looks cold and bleak [01:15.00] [01:16.25]But I see farther when I stand [01:19.41] [01:20.91]On Billie's bones in Billie's land [01:25.22] [01:34.23]There's an orchid in her hair [01:37.62] [01:38.83]There are bruises on her lips [01:42.07] [01:43.57]I would worship if I dared [01:47.36] [01:48.30]Kneeling at her fingertips [01:51.74] [01:54.25]I would tell her how I've yearned [01:57.96] [01:59.00]To be worthy of the grail [02:02.56] [02:04.83]All these years and all I've learned [02:08.54]Is just how brilliantly I fail [02:13.40] [02:14.49]Billie's bones are white and bleached [02:18.68] [02:19.21]Piled high and hard to reach [02:23.91]And the top looks cold and bleak [02:28.62] [02:29.84]But I see farther when I stand [02:33.14] [02:34.04]On Billie's bones in Billie's land [02:38.64] [02:57.32]Now the flesh of earth has passed [03:00.76] [03:02.04]Now the joints have come undone [03:05.35] [03:06.60]All that's left of her is ash [03:09.84] [03:10.79]Scattered on the air like crumbs [03:18.99] [03:37.67]There are voices on the wind [03:41.02] [03:42.12]Stolen whispers sacred moans [03:45.86] [03:47.17]You can hear them through your skin [03:50.69] [03:51.88]And the singing of the bones [03:55.86] [03:57.75]When the wind blows from the east [04:01.17] [04:02.51]I can taste her on my tongue [04:06.58] [04:08.58]And the grave is lined and paved with [04:13.41]All the songs we never sung